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Template:File with non-existent templates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 remind you that pay more attention to TFD 11:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Template:File with non-existent categories has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 remind you that pay more attention to TFD 11:15, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Libera Chat for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Libera Chat is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Libera Chat until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

RingtailedFoxTalkContribs 19:04, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Legobot Index Errors

Hey Legoktm. I've been trying to set up both lowercase sigmabot III and Legobot on my talk page. While I've got lowercase sigmabot archiving now, with it creating a new archive per year, Legobot seems to not want to index it. According to the index error log, I'm missing the first_archive= parameter, however I cannot find anything in the instructions, linked from Help:Archiving a talk page#Archive indexing, for what that parameter does or what format it takes. I also can't see any newer documentation linked on Legobot's user page which might give me a hint. I've tried to take a look at the underlying Rust code on Gitlab for some hints, but I can't tell if first_archive is a parameter the bot reads from the page, or if it's a parameter it creates internally.

Do I just need to set first_archive in the template string as 2020, as that is the first year of the archive? If so, can we add that to the documentation? There seems to be 19 other talk pages, 20 total, that are spitting out the same error as mine. Sideswipe9th (talk) 21:12, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

removed A TrainBerean HunterEpbr123GermanJoeSanchomMysid

Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
  • The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration



Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)


(You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Legobot behaviour

Hi, have you altered Legobot recently? It made this edit, and the lack of content for the |text= parameter usually means one of three things - (i) missing timestamp; (ii) timetamp present but not in the format produced by WP:4TILDES; (iii) too much text between the {{rfc}} tag and the timestamp. Problem (i) is clearly not the case, and problem (ii) isn't either. I've never established the limit for (iii) accurately, but it's in the region of 2,000 bytes, and this RfC statement is clearly much shorter than that. So I'm stumped as to why Legobot has rejected the statement. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:25, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

@Redrose64: the last change I made to rfcbot.php was 3 months ago. And I just checked on Toolforge itself, there are no changes outside of the Git repo. So I'd say I have no clue, I'm pretty sure you're more knowledgeable than me at this point about how it works... Legoktm (talk) 21:32, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
I've had an idea - I suspect that this edit to a malformed older RfC on the same page will allow the newer one to list correctly. We'll find out at 22:01 (UTC). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:40, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Yep. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:16, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2021

DYK for Tokio (software)

On 31 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tokio (software), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Tokio platform for the Rust programming language uses a work stealing scheduler? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tokio (software). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tokio (software)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 31 December 2021 (UTC)