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Hi
Hmlarson, you'll need to define what "within the scope of WP:WBB" means in order to run the bot. —
The Earwig (
talk) 01:52, 6 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Hmlarson: OK. Subcats are sometimes tricky because of unexpected relationships (a subcategory of a subcategory a few levels deep sometimes has little relationship with the original category), but I reviewed this situation, and it looks mostly fine.
I'll have the bot generate a list of pages it would tag, and we can double-check those. It'll take me a few days.
Separately, there is a requirement that you mention on the WikiProject talk page that you want to run this tagging job, in case there are any objections.
Hi The Earwig - Any chance you have you can provide an ETA on this request? Thank you!
Hmlarson (
talk) 20:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)reply
So sorry for the wait here, I had to make some code changes to handle tagging both banners and a few personal things came up – I have some free time now and will get back to you tomorrow in a few days. —
The Earwig (
talk) 20:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (
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For about the last three days, lowercase sigmabot III has only been archiving the Administrator's noticeboards and nothing else. Somebody mentioned that you gave it a good kick the last time it went on the fritz, so I will go ahead and notify you.
Safiel (
talk) 16:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the notice. I've kicked it again and added a workaround in case this issue happens again. —
The Earwig (
talk) 04:29, 30 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Copyvio Detector not working well
Hello Ben, hope you are well. I just thought I'd let you know that the Copyvio Detector is not functioning all that well thae last couple of days, timing out on just about every comparison. ("The URL
https://www.dvfu.ru/en/about/ timed out before any data could be retrieved", for example.) Even times out on simple, short webpages of the type that it's usually able to access easily. Any assistance appreciated. Thanks, —
Diannaa (
talk) 13:34, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi Diannaa. We (
Chlod and I) did just block a misbehaving bot last night, so that would account for some extra load, but it doesn't totally explain the issue. That one URL is working for me at the moment, only taking a couple seconds. I will investigate further. —
The Earwig (
talk) 15:27, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks.
T280531
Hi, @
The Earwig! You seem to be the most active operator for one of the
Category:WikiProject tagging bots so I hope this isn't a bother. I'm overseeing the newly created
WP:WikiProject AfroCreatives now and would like to disseminate {{WikiProject AfroCreatives}} through our targeted articles in the
AfroCreatives categories with all subcategories included. We are willing to make use of auto assessment and to inherit it from existing WP banners too. The template already accommodates this. I would very much appreciate your help.
Assem Khidhr (
talk) 06:12, 5 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Copyvio Detector and Google
Hi,
(Sorry if this is the wrong forum for asking, but if so, perhaps you could point me in the right direction?)
I use the Copyvio Detector (great tool, BTW!) in checking new AfC drafts, at least a dozen times most days. I sometimes get an error message saying that the detector has exceeded its maximum allowed Google searches. This issue has always been there, occasionally, but in the last week or two it has occurred daily. When I start reviewing, around 6am or so UK time, the first few reviews always hit this problem. Then, maybe 8am (?) the daily quota probably gets reset, or something else happens, because from then onwards everything is fine until the next morning.
So I was thinking, I don't suppose there's much we can do to increase the quota (?), but would it be possible to add another search engine as a fallback option? Either so that when the user gets that error message, they could manually tick a box to use Bing (say) instead; or maybe the Detector could automatically switch to using the alternative if Google has failed.
I realise this may not be possible, either for technical or policy reasons, but thought I'd ask at least. Cheers, --
DoubleGrazing (
talk) 09:35, 8 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi
DoubleGrazing, using Bing or some other engine as a fallback is definitely something we’ve discussed—I hadn’t realized the issue had gotten this bad recently. The main issue here is these services usually cost money, and while the WMF pays for our Google access right now, I don’t know if I will be able to ask for access to additional search engines. First, I can take a deeper look into whether anyone is overusing their share of the tool’s resources; we might need to block/limit them. (Our plan with Google allows about 1500 articles to be checked per day.) —
The Earwig alt (
talk) 16:11, 8 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Okay, thanks for shedding some more light on this; needless to say, I knew nothing about how these things work.
I guess we at AfC are taking up quite a chunk of that quota, given that we see what are by definition new drafts usually by new users. I for one run the check probably at least on ⅓ of the drafts I review (and if you think that makes me an overuser, feel absolutely free to point this out, of course!). Even at NPP we deal with relatively more experienced users, so there's that much less of a need to check for CV.
It may be that I see the problem worse than some others, mind, because of my weird early-morning AfC habit, combined with the time zone I'm in. --
DoubleGrazing (
talk) 17:05, 8 May 2024 (UTC)reply