Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Bugs/Archive/2015

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Lutheranism category not picked up in Christianity

Bug fixed (Legacy code)

Category talk:Lutheran sermon writers is tagged with {{WikiProject Lutheranism}} which puts it in Category:Category-Class Christianity articles. It was CFD'd on Nov 25 but does not appear in Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Article alerts. – Fayenatic London 22:28, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for report (and I know I am super-late to the party). I think this is a bug in revision insertion parsing. My old code is gone, so I would be writing it anew anyway, hopefully without the bug. (For my reference: CfD added here (2nd revision). Next bot report here. In the same report, Category:Church was picked up fine with CfD here (many revisions).) — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 16:11, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Bot reporting new AFD

Bug fixed

Filled by: Meco (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 07:36, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Link(s): [1]

Comments: The edit summary says +1 AfD; +1 FLC, but since the "AfD" is simply making changes to the article's spelling, it shouldn't use that edit summary. __meco (talk) 07:36, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for report. I didn't realize renamed (moved mid-workflow) entries get miscounted in edit summaries. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 08:26, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Here's more of the same.[2] __meco (talk) 15:22, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that. It's a little weird. I must have messed something up (again). — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 19:11, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

I think this is now fixed (3 years later, lol) as part of #Stated_TFD_does_not_appear_in_the_report. Didn't realize what the issue was at the time and didn't see it again (it's hard to reproduce as I need to manually grab previous data files and keep re-running those, assuming nothing on wiki related to that changes). In hindsight, it makes perfect sense why it got summarized but not reported.. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 13:59, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Bold new entries?

Bug fixed

I'm not sure whether this a bug or design decision, but the bot has stopped bolding new entries when it adds them to WikiProject specific AA pages. Either way, it would be nice to have it back, since it was a convenient way of tracking which pages I had or had not checked. Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik (talk) 05:26, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

On an article alerts page, boldface was used to highlight an item that was newly-added, or which had changed since the last time that AAlertBot (talk · contribs) built the page. Headbomb, Hellknowz - it appears that this boldface is no longer added. Is there a reason for that? --Redrose64 (talk) 17:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes, my hard drive died and I had to restore the source code from an older version. I have not yet reimplemented all the stuff changed since. I've gotten some of the bugs re-fixed, but some of the features are missing. Real-life is a lot of work (har har). Didn't even realize the new entry boldface was one of them, it seems like it has been around forever. Thanks for reporting and do report anything else missing. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 14:47, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Stated TFD does not appear in the report

Bug fixed

Filled by: Keith D (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 20:36, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Link(s): alert report

Comments: In the above alert report the summary says "+1 TfD (Template:Lincolnshire Loop Line)" but there is no entry in the report covering the template.

Thanks for report. I think I know why. The bot doesn't report entries for certain workflows that it cannot properly parse. In this case {{Tfm/dated}} for Template:Colorbox placed the Template:Lincolnshire Loop Line that transcludes it in Category:Templates for merging. I bet the summary logic didn't account for entries the bot didn't report, but saw/tracked internally. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 21:41, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

I think I fixed it now. Summary builder now checks for the kill flag that undated records receive (and thus don't get posted). — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 13:54, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Not updating WP:Video games

Bug fixed

Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article alerts hasn't been updated for a week which is unusual given how active the page usually is. Is the bot skipping it? --The1337gamer (talk) 11:37, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

That's certainly an issue, thanks for reporting. So what the bot got was a response:

<?xml version="1.0"?><api><edit spamblacklist="google.com/cse" result="Failure" /></api>

Basically, it tried to add a link that's in the spam blacklist. This is probably because one of the PROD summaries included it or something and the bot tried to quote it. I'll add logic to detect when spam blacklisting happens and to deliver the report without custom user text. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 20:36, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Multiple GANs missing from report after multiple days

Bug fixed

Filled by: Czar (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 08:41, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Link(s): Multiple recent GAN listings missing from the past few updates of Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article alerts and Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Nintendo/Article alerts

Comments:

Thanks for report. I've been trying and failing to find the cause of missing pages. (Mostly, by the time I got to debugging, the pages have moved about and I can't reproduce.) This time, I think I got it. Had two bugs in closely related places. Fixing one just produced almost the same results and left the other around, so I didn't realize my fix was fine but there was another issue. Comparing half-fix with full fix actually made a difference to VG report, so I managed to track down both. Will see on next run when the version gets updated.

For my later reference: multiple batches in same pagelist addpage request overwrote list rather than appended; last batch final page index check fail against page count due to non-workflow skipped pages. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:43, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! With this fix (apparently), WP Louisville just got an alert for a GAN started on August 2, as well as a Requested Move, started on August 2. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 11:41, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. WP Languages also was updated for four requested moves filed July 25–27. Wbm1058 (talk) 11:54, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Not updating WP:MADONNA

Hello Article alerts, the bot has not been updating the above project for a long time. Can you please check what's the issue? —Indian:BIO ^{[ ChitChat ]} 04:41, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Update: The bot did run today just now, but it did not update the GAN log correctly. —Indian:BIO ^{[ ChitChat ]} 08:11, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for report. See recent update above #Multiple_GANs_missing_from_report_after_multiple_days, hopefully the same issue. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:44, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Wrong MFD

Bug fixed

Filled by: Ricky81682 (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 10:57, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Link(s): Wikipedia:WikiProject World's Oldest People/Article alerts, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject World's Oldest People/Future supercentenarians (wrong one), Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject World's Oldest People/Future supercentenarians (3rd nomination) (correct one).

Comments: In this update, the bot includes the MFD notice for Wikipedia:WikiProject World's Oldest People/Future supercentenarians but writes it as "undated" and links to the 2011 discussion, not the current 3rd one. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 10:57, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

I see an above example that's based on a wrong substitution of the MFD template. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 11:54, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for report. MfD template should not be substituted. The bot cannot read them once they're expanded, it will simply notify us to un-subst the template. Generally, the bot doesn't require to do something that's not part of regular template instructions.

The actual issue is that the MfD is using {{mfdx}} template, which we hadn't added to the list. I didn't realize it even exists, as it is not a redirect to the main {{mfd}} template [3]. I see it mentioned in instructions now. I will add it to bot's templates and it should pick it up. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 13:36, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Apparently the discussion page syntax is different too. Anyway, seems good. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 14:37, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

GA noms on Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset/Article alerts

Filled by: Rodw (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 09:18, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Link(s):

Comments: I'm not sure whether this is a bug, but I can't understand why alert bot picks up some GA nominations for WikiProject Somerset and misses others. Recent nominations of Watchet, Blagdon Lake, Cadbury Castle, Somerset and Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum are not appearing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset/Article alerts, even though (as far as I can see) they are formatted in the same way as earlier nominations.— Rod ^talk 09:18, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

That's really weird. I don't see any obvious reason for this. Both included and excluded pages look the same. I'll investigate. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 15:38, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Couldn't debug this case in time, same bug now at Wikipedia_talk:Article_alerts/Bugs#Multiple_GANs_missing_from_report_after_multiple_days -- will resolve there. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:36, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject:Professional wrestling AfDs

Not a bug

Filled by: Ribbon Salminen (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 13:54, 26 August 2015

Link(s): Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arukas Cup Six Man Tag Tournament
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Novus (professional wrestling)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Road to Keiji Muto Tournament

Comments: The bot hasn't added these AfDs to the project's article alerts page. It updates the page daily, but for some reason skipped these. リボン・サルミネン (Ribbon Salminen) (LOLTNA) 08:13, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

The bot doesn't know that those pages belong to the project. Mainly, because they don't have project talk page banners. I will add Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Wrestling for subscription dellist option, though that will only include manually listed pages. Is there any other way one could detect pages automatically that are part of the project, like a list somewhere? — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 15:23, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

They've now been added. Thanks. Didn't realize it could be about the missing talk pages. Will keep that in mind in the future. リボン・サルミネン (Ribbon Salminen) (LOLTNA) 10:41, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Article prefix/namespace bug

Howdy; I'm chasing down an odd article prefix/namespace bug - see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 138#Article prefix/namespace bug. The articles below seem to have been created in namespace 0 (rather than 4):

- TB (talk) 19:55, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Ha. Well, that's interesting. These seem to have all been created on Jan 27, 2015 during the bot's run. No other before or since. I have not changed API in any way regarding page creation either. I can only guess this is some kind of MediaWiki bug that was live for a very brief time. I have no clue how to fix these, I can't even tell on-wiki that they are in article space, not from API sandbox either.

09:23, January 27, 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+9,964)‎ . . N Wikipedia:WikiProject Serbia/Article alerts ‎ (BOT: Updating Article alert report: +1 PR) (HB/111/AR)

09:23, January 27, 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,383)‎ . . N Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/Science and education in Russia task force/Article alerts ‎ (BOT: Updating Article alert report: No major changes) (HB/111/AR)

09:21, January 27, 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+221,036)‎ . . N Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan/Article alerts/Archive ‎ (BOT: Updating report archive with 1 entries) (HB/111/AR)

09:20, January 27, 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+1,461)‎ . . N Wikipedia:WikiProject New York Yankees/Article alerts ‎ (BOT: Updating Article alert report: No major changes) (HB/111/AR)

09:14, January 27, 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+4,723)‎ . . N Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/Article alerts ‎ (BOT: Updating Article alert report: No major changes) (HB/111/AR)

09:13, January 27, 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+20,766)‎ . . N Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware/Article alerts/Archive ‎ (BOT: Updating report archive with 2 entries) (HB/111/AR)

09:11, January 27, 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+127,819)‎ . . N Wikipedia:WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force/Article alerts/Archive ‎ (BOT: Updating report archive with 1 entries) (HB/111/AR)

09:08, January 27, 2015 (diff | hist) . . (+5,072)‎ . . N Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Article alerts ‎ (BOT: Updating Article alert report: -1 TfD) (HB/111/AR)

— HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 22:15, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Cheers for checking. Jackmcbarn has identified phabricator:T87645 as the relevant MediaWiki bug. I'll let you know if/when the articles are properly relocated just in case it perturbs this tool. - TB (talk) 08:06, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

The misplaced copies of the above 8 articles have now been deleted. - TB (talk) 11:07, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Lingering files for discussion

Not a bug (Reported FFDs)

Bug fixed (Discussion section)

In Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Article alerts there are 3 files for discussion that have been sitting there since October and the link to the respective discussions doesn't show the files being discussed. Same on Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky/Article alerts. It looks like there's a common issue here. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 13:18, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for report. The entries are still there because the files still have {{ffd}} templates, so they are still in Category:Wikipedia files for discussion. October does appear to be the right date when the template was first added [4]. It was however updated later [5] to a new location, but the bot doesn't recheck pages as that would take a lot of resources for all the pages. Finally, I didn't know there was an undocumented |1= parameter for the {{ffd}}, so it wouldn't link to the section -- I can fix that at least. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 13:45, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. They belong in the alert list after all, but the discussion link is decayed because these files were left out of the original discussion. Hrmmm. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 13:58, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

The section names should now work [6] (although it seems individual entries on FFD subpages still create anchors for linking to file names direct), but this is more inline with the template. Now, re-retrieving active pages is more complicated than that. Before some source code was lost, I had User:AAlertBot/Reget, where I could manually give it some page names to re-retrieve, so I need to at least get that working again. The problem is detecting this automatically. Naively, it would involve going through every page every time looking for changes, which is pretty time and resource costly. It definitely needs a smarter way, but that becomes pretty involved and complicated very quickly. For example, I could read the current FFD log pages and see if any new entries have the same files as the bot has already seen -- then there's a good chance it needs to recheck them. But the number of discussions that get changed once started isn't very high, so this hasn't been a priority to fix. I am keeping it in mind though. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 14:18, 12 December 2015 (UTC)