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Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Greetings! Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include: BAG BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG! BRFAs We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing! Discussions Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes are still ongoing. The RFC on COSMETICBOT has concluded with "a clear consensus exists to adopt the proposed language". The new wording is now live. The venue for bot appeals and reexaminations has been changed from WP:BRFA to WP:BOTN (see discussion) The Wikipedia:Bot owner's noticeboard is now the Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard (see discussion). New things A historical correction was made to WP:BOTPOL (see discussion). WP:HIDEBOTS now mentions how to hide all bots from your watchlist, not only specific bots. The phabricator ticket T162685 is now closed, and we now have "#Bots-Framework" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked. Wikibits.js has been removed (see discussion). 21 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion). WP:BOTISSUE has been updated to mention that BAG members can act as neutral mediators in bot-related disputes. WP:INTERWIKIBOT has been updated to reflect the post-February 2013 practice of putting interwiki links on Wikidata, rather than on Wikipedia (see discussion). Upcoming HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ). Wikimania Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

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Aw a kitten, thanks! Welcome to Wikipedia! Shubinator (talk) 03:14, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

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DYKUpdateBot appears to be down

Hello Shubinator! It seems like DYKUpdateBot is down, as it's not updating the current queue. If you could restart the bot sometime soon at your earliest convenience, that would be great. Thanks so much! Alex Shih^Talk 05:12, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

DYKHousekeepingBot seems also to be down; its last edit was at 17:43, 28 September 2017 (UTC). Please also restart this one as well. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:41, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

It looks like both bots are having trouble editing Wikipedia, presumably due to an API change. I'll keep looking at this tomorrow. Unfortunately I'm not sure how long the bots will be out of commission. Shubinator (talk) 06:20, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Found the culprit. When the bots are trying to edit, they're getting this error message: "It appears that your browser does not support Unicode. It is required to edit pages, so your edit was not saved." Looking into different ways of addressing this. Shubinator (talk) 16:22, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

For the curious, here's the corresponding API change: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/374422 Shubinator (talk) 16:25, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Both bots should be up and running again. Thanks everyone! (For the curious, here's the fix: Special:Diff/803132637.) Shubinator (talk) 17:20, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Please run the untranscluded DYK nomination templates list

Shubinator, I believe I'm aware of all those from prior to October, but I think some from last month were promoted and then pulled back, but WugBot deleted the transclusions (as it's supposed to do) after promotion, and the person who pulled the nomination back forgot (or didn't care) that they needed to retransclude the nomination template. I'd like to find those now and get them transcluded again; there should be a few of them at least. There's no immediate rush; please post the list here when it's ready and ping me, and I'll get to work on resurrecting them. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:29, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Here you go BlueMoonset! I'm not sure if this list would include those nominations, they would need to still be a member of Category:Pending DYK nominations. Shubinator (talk) 04:32, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

• Template:Did you know nominations/Heroic Medicine
• Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Richard Morris
• Template:Did you know nominations/Ikebana
• Template:Did you know nominations/Gerard Barnes Lambert

Thank you very much, Shubinator. As it happens, I already knew about Heroic Medicine and Thomas Richard Morris, both of which were not retranscluded after being pulled from prep a while back, but the other two were new to me, and available on the Pending DYK nominations page (I've been checking that category lately). Oddly, Ikebana wasn't ever added to the nominations page, yet the nominator wasn't sent the "you forgot to transclude this" message by DYKHousekeepingBot. I've just taken care of posting to the nominator's talk page, though as the nomination isn't a 5x expansion and has referencing issues, I doubt the transclusion will ever be done. The Gerard Barnes Lambert nomination page was created by an editor making their first edit; there is no article about this person at all. I've put the page up for speedy deletion. That takes care of all the untranscluded nominations! BlueMoonset (talk) 05:18, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

That was fast, thanks! It looks like Ikebana's nominator has a nobots template on their talk page so DYKHousekeepingBot respected the template and didn't notify them. Shubinator (talk) 05:28, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

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