User talk:Jutiphan

Pattani (region)

Hello, Jutiphan. I was wondering if you could state on the talk page of the Pattani (region) article what you think is inaccurate. I am not saying that it is accurate, as I have not even read the article yet. I saw the disputed template and checked the talk page, but found nothing. If editors do not identify the problems they have with the article when adding a disputed or a non-neutral POV tag, it is far less likely that they will be fixed. Thanks, Kjkolb 17:06, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hello

Hey, I responded to your talk page comment here. Thanks. :)

Warren 07:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply

]

Fair use rationale for Image:ThaiConstitutionRoyalEndorsement.jpg

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th:วงศ์ปลาเนื้ออ่อน

Sawadee krub, I removed this from catfish as it is actually Sheatfish (family Siluridae) --Melanochromis 01:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely. I'm glad to help. I usually monitor fish articles in Thai wiki every once in a while and did an interwiki cleanup several weeks agoa. :-) --Melanochromis 01:42, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship

Please stop your bot from modifying this page. The interwiki links are transcluded as part of a seperate "Front matter" template, and so your bot is misplacing the link. It has done this and been reverted three times already. Dragons flight 19:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apologize for this. I have added the code to stop the bot from doing so. --Jutiphan | Talk - 20:03, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot

Why do you feel the need to put Thai links on an ENGLISH wikipedia? Jezebel Parks 22:30, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not exactly sure what you mean. Normally I or my bot would add interwiki links. See
WP:INTER for more info. --Jutiphan | Talk - 22:41, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply
]

Image:Hex game over.png

You wrote:

It appears that you last uploaded the image:Hex game over.png. Please help add the license information. Someone in Thai Wikipedia would like to use the image you uploaded and isn't sure the license to choose from. Your help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks --Jutiphan | Talk - 05:18, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All I did was rotate a severely horizontal graphic that was impossible to make fit in an article correctly into a vertical one. Please contact the original uploader. DreamGuy 17:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sawadee krub

I was just wondering does your bot add links to The Thai wikipedia?Arnon Chaffin (Talk) 18:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please help-Lao language request

Hello! The
Wikipedia:Graphic Lab is working on artwork related to Laos, and we need some help to get the proper Lao language text into the artwork. As Thai and Lao are closely-related languages, I ask you to please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Images_to_improve#Scouting_in_Laos and see if you can help! Thanking you in advance, Chris 02:42, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply
]

interwiki

Your bot seems to be sorting interwiki by the two letter code. On the English Wikipedia, they are sorted by "order of alphabet, based on local language". See meta:Interwiki sorting order for more detail. Thank you. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 07:44, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Based on the information at
Wikipedia:Interlanguage_links#Sorting, sorting by 2 letters code is acceptable. I also feel that the ordering in this area is not conclusive yet based on my own findings from Wikipedia:Language_order_poll --Jutiphan | Talk - 06:34, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply
]

Regarding this in case someone else come, BotKung now adjusted the code for English Wikipedia to order by alphabet based on local language a long while back --Jutiphan | Talk - 18:31, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand

Hi there!!! You are welcome to join the new
$1,000,000? 10:23, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply
]

Thanks for the letting me know! Just join in, but I may not have time to participate that much, however, but willing to help with bot-related issues. --Jutiphan | Talk - 02:30, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Moving pages

Thank you for the offer of assistance. Yes, I definitely need your help.
My renaming proposal fell through (got reversed), and I've had to move the pages back.
I've moved some of them, but there are still some left.
Could you move all of the subpages of
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics
?
The Transhumanist 19:21, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
P.S.: I'll be making another rename proposal soon, and once there's consensus on it, I may need your help again.

Hi... I don't see any pages that require to be moved anymore. Let me know the category containing such pages if I did miss something. --Jutiphan | Talk - 05:21, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

th:NAT

This[1] edit of your bot was incorrect, and also resulted in interwiki pollution of corresponding Wikipedia pages in other languages. Where did it get such a crap? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 09:07, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you just ask the ones who added them here. BotKung simply uses the more updated version of interwiki links from English Wikipedia. So the crap is from English Wikipedia. Clear enough? --Jutiphan | Talk - 09:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

BotKung

your bot deleted a very bif part of the
css page! please torn off your bot and check it first! --mabdul 0=* 21:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply
]
BotKung is making some bad edits today. See diffs in Special:Contributions/BotKung e.g. [2], [3] -Fnlayson (talk) 21:50, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm afraid
Eadwig_of_England had to be reverted after BotKung truncated it. Ϣere Spiel Chequers 23:21, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply
]

I'm sorry that there have been some problems with BotKung edits. Related code has recently been updated to fix other problems. Please continue to let me know if you notice any bad edits with BotKung. Also, to quickly address the problems, please also post the issue here in Thai Wikipedia. Thanks! --Jutiphan | Talk - 16:22, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal for new Manual of Style for Thailand-related articles

A drafted new version of the Manual of Style for Thailand-related articles has been started
here. Still at issue are specific naming conventions for Thai royals and nobles and settlements. As a member of WikiProject Thailand, you are welcome to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thailand#Updating the Manual of Style (part 2). Paul_012 ^(talk) 18:29, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply
]

A++--99.122.12.191 (talk) 21:49, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

For some reason your bot copied the information from C into the C++ article. A bug, I presume. decltype (talk) 08:27, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. This problem is now fixed in the newest and currently running version of BotKung. Please let me know if there is - 16:14, 14 March 2009 (UTC) to mb

form jasmine

User:BotKung

Hellp Jutiphan.
I have blocked your bot, since it is malfunctioning. See [4], [5], [6], and [7].
There may be more similar ones, I am not sure.
When you have figured out the problem, you may contact me or any other administrator to get your bot unblocked.
Regards,
J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:24, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocked. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:23, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bot malfunctioning

This bot is malfunctioning. Instead of just adding the th interwiki link to List of D.N.Angel characters, it reverted to a months old version of the article[8]. It did this on several other articles as well[9][10][11] -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 18:31, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have blocked this bot; it's clearly malfunctioning, and all of its recent edits appear to be removing content or making inappropriate reversions.
Iridescent : Chat 18:45, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply
]

Your bot's error

Hello, when your bot added the Thai inter wiki to Haeinsa, it deleted a huge amount of information.[12] I think you gotta check your bot.--Caspian blue 14:28, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thank you for letting me know. This problem have already been fixed. --Jutiphan | Talk - 05:39, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bot issue?

In this edit the bot cuts out a section of the article. DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 04:25, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the bot is cutting up other articles too. DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 05:07, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it just broke Bird-of-paradise also. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:18, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
BTW I tried to notify your Thai WP account but everything I did just got a warning in Thai that I was trying an inappropriate action! Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:31, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked your bot.
talk) 09:03, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply
]
Sorry for the delay. Apologize for the issue. Due to POST issues for the 3-4 days couple of days ago, I rewrote the save function, however unable to test properly making it not support saving changes for large articles. I have since stopped the bot, continue the development to fix the issue, and tested on Thai Wikipedia and it is now working correctly. Please unblock the bot so that it can continue to operate as normal. If there is any future issues that happen again, please report issues to th:user talk:Jutiphan Thanks!!! --Jutiphan | Talk - 16:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

An RfC that you may be interested in...

As one of the previous contributors to {{
RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters
. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!

This message was sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 18:27, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot on English Wikipedia

A proposal to de-authorize a group of idle interwiki bots on the English Wikipedia is currently in process. A bot account of yours has been included in the list. If you are no longer using this bot, no action is neccessary by you. Should you wish to revive your bot in the near future, please remove your bot from the list here:
en:Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Bot_that_are_inactive_for_the_last_2-4_years_and_may_lose_bot_flag. Thank you for your contributions. For the en: Bot Approvals Group, en:user:Xaosflux 12:31, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
]

HTTP, HTTPS and bots

Hi (here too)! Soon (June 12) all traffic to Wikimedia sites and API:s will need to go over https:// instead of http://. It seems your bot BotKung is still using http://.
There's more information. here. If you need help updating your bot, maybe that mailing list or
w:en:Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard might be good places. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 22:15, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply
]

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The
Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:56, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply
]

Northern Khmer Vowels

The bot BotKung keeps changing Northern Khmer vowels at Thai Wikipedia page ภาษาเขมรถิ่นไทย. Sequences such as <PHINTHU, SARA I> are being reduced to just <PHINTHU>. How do I stop this happening? RichardW57 (talk) 09:43, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed the issue. Thank you for letting me know and please feel free to leave messages on my Thai Wikipedia Talk page --Jutiphan | Talk - 05:21, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Presumably the comment  applies to the whole page. Is it possible to apply it to a smaller portion of the page? --RichardW57 (talk) 07:21, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately not. The issue is regarding automatic fixing of misplaced vowels in Thai language. This is currently the best possible solution in this specific scenario. --Jutiphan | Talk - 01:30, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Greetings!
The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.
Highlights for this newsletter include:

Arbcom

Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include:

Community encouraged to review common fixes

Community encouraged to review policy on cosmetic edits

Developers encouraged to improve AWB interface

Bot approvals group encouraged to carefully review BRFA scope

Reminders/Restrictions specific to Magioladitis

BRFAs

We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular:

RFC on COSMETICBOT

Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes

Requested move for the Bot Owners' Noticeboard

A phabricator ticket T162685 has been made to have a "bots" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked

New things

Several new things are around:

A BAG Guide has been created (
WP:BAGG, discussion
).

Users now have the option to hide AWB from their watchlists via a script (
WP:HIDEAWB, discussion
)

The guidance on how to deal with bot issues has been overhauled (
WP:BOTISSUE, discussion
)

The bot policy has been updated to clarify that bot operators are required to register accounts. (
WP:BOTACCOUNT, discussion
)

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 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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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

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: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)[reply]

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Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!
Here is the 5th 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:

ARBCOM

Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis (decision, summary).

Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful (decision).

A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion).

BAG

Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity.

BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check
WT:BOTPOL
(and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things

WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion
).

6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).

The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.

Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)

The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.

You will soon be able to
ping users from the edit summary (see T188469
). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

Upcoming

HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Greetings!
Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.
Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.

BAG

There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.

In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.

BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

24 active
BOTREQs
, please help if you can!

5 open BRFAs and 3 BRFAs in need of BAG attention (see live status).

54 approved bot tasks since the start of 2018. Of note, Community Tech bot 5 (the #10 Wish on the 2017 Community Survey) was approved to notify users concerning problematic images and files from Wikimedia Commons.

Also

If you're a bot operator that can help with Tidy/Linter error cleanup (see
file a BRFA
!

8 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion, discussion, discussion).

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

Use of tags by bots – Exploring the use of a new 'bot' tag.

Mass page moves – Bot policy question/clarification about mass moves.

Creation of redirects – Bot policy question/clarification about the creation of redirects.

MOS:VAR
).

Discussion concerning WP:BOTFLAG/WP:RC – A reminder that bots should use the bot flag when it makes sense to use it (see also VPT discussion and CREATEBOT update).

Out of curiosity... (to all bot operators) – BotPasswords vs OAuth usage amongst bot operators.

Introducing Toolhub – Toolhub is looking for feedback.

New things

{{Automated tools}}, a new template linking to user-activated tools and scripts has been created. It can be used in articles previews, and can be placed on any non-mainspace page/template (e.g. {{Draft article}}) to provide convenient links to editors.

AWB 5.10.0.0 is out, after nearly 20 months without updates. If you run an old version, you will be prompted to install the new version automatically. See the
next version will require .NET Framework 4.5. Many thanks to Reedy
and the AWB team.

BotWatch, "a listing of editors that have made >2 edits per minute [without] a bot flag", is being developed by SQL (see discussion).

Massive updates and improvements have been made to Citation bot in the past few months (see discussions, discussions, discussions). You can activate the bot here, amongst other methods.

HTML Tidy has been phased out (see Tech News #28).

{{Newbot}} has been reorganized a bit (diff). In particular, it links to previously approved BRFAs (see discussion).

Wikipedia:Bots#See also has been reorganized a bit (diff).

The bot dictionary has two new entries, context bot and context-sensitive edit.

The
discussion
).

The subcategories of Category:Wikipedia bot requests for approval have been sorted in a consistent manner to make past BRFAs easier to find.

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Greetings!
Here is the 7th issue of the Bots Newsletter, a lot happened since last year's newsletter! You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.
Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

Nothing of note happened. Just like we like it.

BAG

Several (1 + 12 = 13) users have been retired/resigned from the BAG due to inactivity, per our new activity requirements (discussion).

BAG members are expected to be active on Wikipedia to have their finger on the pulse of the community. After two years without any bot-related activity (such as posting on bot-related pages, posting on a bot's talk page, or operating a bot), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice. Retired members can re-apply for BAG membership as normal if they wish to rejoin the BAG.

Two BAG members retired
Madman (talk · contribs) retired.

vanished and retired
.

Three new BAG members have been voted in, welcome to the BAG!
talk · contribs) which does a plethora of tasks
.

TheSandDoctor (talk · contribs) joined on 2019-01-21 (RfBAG). TheSandDoctor operates several bots including DeprecatedFixerBot (talk · contribs).

talk · contribs
) which posts reminders, and codes several scripts.

We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.

BOTDICT

Two new entries feature in the
bots dictionary

Editor-hostile wikitext
– describes wikitext structuring that is editor hostile, even if it renders correctly

Spectrum of usefulness
– describes how tasks are deemed useful or not

BOTPOL

Activity requirements: BAG members now have an activity requirement. The requirements are very light, one only needs to be involved in a bot-related area at some point within the last two years. For purpose of meeting these requirements, discussing a bot-related matter anywhere on Wikipedia counts, as does operating a bot (RFC
).

bureaucrat upon BAG request as being in the "copyviobot" user group on Wikipedia. This flag allows using the API to add metadata to edits for use in the New pages feed (discussion). There is currently 1
bot using this functionality.

WP:MASSCREATION
.

BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

20 active
BOTREQs
, please help if you can!

14 open BRFAs and 1 BRFA in need of BAG attention (see live status).

In 2018, 96 bot task were
AWB
search shows approximately 29 were withdrawn/expired, and 6 were denied.

Since the start of 2019, 97 bot task were approved. Logs show 15 were withdrawn/expired, and 15 were denied.

10 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion). 5 other bots have been deflagged per operator requests or similar (see discussion).

New things

All bot-related discussion pages now have a centralized and searchable archive box (see discussion). Discussions are searchable per noticeboard, or globally.

{{Bot}} now supports |status=expired (see discussion). This led to the deletion of Category:Indefinitely blocked Wikipedia bots as useless (see discussion).

WP:AWBTASKS
as alternatives to bot requests.

The
bot creation guide now mentions bot flags, and two new languages Awk and MATLAB
. Other minor tweaks have been made.

AFC submissions
.

Citation bot has received several updates (User talk:Citation bot/Archive 10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17). In particular, the bot stopped the automated removal of |publisher= from {{cite journal}}, and stopped the automated addition of CiteSeerX links, and now uses OAuth to authenticate those who make requests of the bot.

Other discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Adminbots requests page

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Double-redirect tagging (2019)

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Long and Winding Road to Parsoid

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Bot-like user scripts

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#WP:URLREQ

Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Wikipedia:Bots/Status

Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group#Minimum edits

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Minor update to WP:BOTISSUE

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Semi-automated Portal creation

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Clarification on "Bots operated by multiple users"

Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Bots triggered by multiple users

Wikipedia talk:Bots#How to use Special:ApiFeatureUsage

See also the latest discussions at the
bot noticeboard
.
Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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User:Jutiphan Hello. recently published an article (ชินเดนไค) on the Thai Wikipedia that needs to be reviewed and edited. Please help maintain it as an experienced Thai user. Sincerely MMA Kid (talk) 07:32, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
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, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 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!

Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? 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

Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5

Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT

Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request).

December 2019

Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8

Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that.

200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein,
JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions
for more than 200,000 biographies.

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)[reply]

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Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things
bot
. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.
After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.
Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.
Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71
BRFAs
. Of these, Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with N2 8 denied, ? 2 withdrawn, and 2 expired).
January 2020

Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

Y ST47Bot, Seppi333Bot, Qbugbot 4 · N2 PkbwcgsBot 25, PkbwcgsBot 26

A new
Python 2.7 would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge
itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.

Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ST47Bot, the successor to STBot, and Seppi333Bot, whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for WikiProject Molecular Biology.

CfD
'd.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

Y AnomieBOT 78, Cewbot 2, DannyS712 bot 67, DannyS712 bot III 63, PearBOT 6, DemonDays64 Bot 2 · N2 PearBOT

On February 1, some concerns were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor of MediaWiki) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily blocked for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.

On February 18,
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview
.

March 2020

Y
Bitbotje, FACBot 6, TheSandBot 8, Qbugbot 5, Cewbot 3, SDZeroBot 2, PrimeBOT 31, WikiCleanerBot 12 · AntiCompositeBot

In March, a long
Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge
hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).

Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were
draftspace
).

April 2020

Listeria being examined

Y TheSandBot 9, BHGbot 5, DannyS712 bot 69, SDZeroBot 3, ST47ProxyBot, WugBot 4, SDZeroBot 4, DatBot 10, WikiCleanerBot 11, WikiCleanerBot 13, WikiCleanerBot 14, AntiCompositeBot 2, Cewbot 4 · N2 DaedanBot 1 · Creffbot

A
non-free images to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was blocked on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards
were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.

diffusing categories), TheSandBot 9 (taking over some tasks from the inactive RonBot), and WugBot 4 (updating data at {{Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, DatBot 10 was approved to scale down non-free SVGs
— I didn't even know that was a thing.

A
WP:BOTCOMM should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to Phabricator, SourceForge, Toolforge, et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its current form
:

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via
anonymity
) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

Y MajavahBot 3, DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, Dreamy Jazz Bot 4, QEDKbot, William Avery Bot 2, DannyS712 bot 68, PrimeBOT 32, TheSandBot 10, Bot1058 7, BHGbot 6, EaglesBot 2, Cewbot 5, WikiCleanerBot 17 · N2 MDanielsBot, PhuzBot 3, Gedimon · ? PearBOT 7

MajavahBot 3, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.

Other approvals for this month were William Avery Bot 2 (processing redirects in {{R from scientific name}}), DannyS712 bot 68 (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), TheSandBot 10 (removing blocked/locked users from Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices), Bot1058 7 (updating Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink), Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 (adding {{WikiProject Biography|living=no}} to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and QEDKbot (deleting and nominating empty categories).

General syntax fixing tasks were approved for DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, PrimeBOT 32, BHGbot 6, Cewbot 5, and EaglesBot 2, as well as WikiCleanerBot 15, 16, and 17.

Seven bots who fell below activity requirements (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were NekoBot, Robert SkyBot, DASHBotAV, VoxelBot, JackieBot, ReferenceBot, and CensusBot.

On May 12, EmausBot was blocked.

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

Y QEDKbot 2, AnomieBOT 79, WOSlinkerBot 6, Yapperbot 2, Yapperbot, AnomieBOT 80, Dreamy Jazz Bot 5, WikiCleanerBot 18, HasteurBot 15, MusikBot II 4, NoSandboxesHere · N2 RedWarn · ? Seppi333Bot 2

In July 2017,
partial-block
of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.

On June 7,
LTA
had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).

David Tornheim opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".

Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved:
Feedback Request Service, and NoSandboxesHere, to remove {{user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox
.

Conclusion

What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?

What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?

Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?

What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!
Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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You're invited! Wiki Loves Pride in Indianapolis

Upcoming Indianapolis event - June 21: Wiki Loves Pride Indy

You are invited to join us at IUPUI University Library for a Wiki Loves Pride editathon—hosted by IUPUI University Library, and supported by the Central Indiana Community Foundation—where both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on this theme:

Tuesday, June 21: Wikipedia:Meetup/Indianapolis/Wiki Loves Pride 2022 (RSVP), focusing on Indiana LGBT history and culture.

11am–4pm at IUPUI University Library, Ashby Browsing Room.

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July 28: You're invited! Food Deserts & Food Policy in Indianapolis editathon

Upcoming Indianapolis event - July 28: Food Deserts & Food Policy

You are invited to join us at Ruth Lilly Law Library for an edit-a-thon on Food Deserts & Food Policy hosted by Ruth Lilly Law Library and United States National Agricultural Library. Together, both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on food deserts, nutrition, and related local and federal food policy.

Thursday, July 28th from 11am-4pm, in Room 235G, Inlow Hall, 530 West New York St. Indianapolis, IN 46202.

Visit the Wikipedia/Meetup page or Eventbrite to sign up and learn more.
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You're invited! Environmental Justice editathons in Indianapolis & Bloomington

Bloomington
Upcoming events around Indiana - Nov. 1: Environmental Justice editathons
2 locations: Indianapolis & Bloomington (and virtual option)

IUPUI

You are invited to join us for a multi-site editathon organized by
Herman B Wells Library
at IU Bloomington (with virtual option). Together, both experienced and new Wikipedia editors, with faculty subject matter experts, will collaboratively improve articles on environmental justice in Indiana and globally. Join us at either location or virtually!

Tuesday, November 1st from 11am-4pm, at...

Indianapolis: IUPUI University Library, Ashby Browsing Room (2nd floor)

Bloomington: Indiana University Bloomington, Wells Library, Hazelbaker Hall, room E159 (1st Floor, East Tower) [Visitor Information]

Virtual: Via Zoom (please register on Eventbrite for link)

Visit the meetup page or Eventbrite to sign up and learn more.
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You're invited! In-person WikiConference North America Meetup in Indianapolis!

Nov. 11-13: WikiConference North American Meetup!
IUPUI University Library (and around Indianapolis)

Registration is now open for WikiConference North America 2022 (Nov. 11–13) held jointly with Mapping USA! If you would like to experience this virtual event in-person, you are welcome to join our meetup in Indianapolis! We will be meeting at IUPUI University Library for the weekend, with AV set up for conference streaming and presenting (for those who've submitted proposals).
Anyone is welcome to join, we will have some light refreshments and are planning evening activities. Feel free to join us for an activity, a day, or the whole weekend. Please let us know you are coming via the meetup page and please register for the conference. We will share more about in-person activities on the meetup page as they are finalized.
Visit the WikiConference North America site for the schedule and visit our meetup page to sign up and learn more. And don't forget to register for the conference!

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March 17: You're invited! Indiana Women in the Arts editathon

Upcoming Indianapolis event
March 17: Indiana Women in the Arts

You are invited to join us at Newfields for an edit-a-thon on Indiana women in the arts, co-hosted by Wikimedians of Indiana and IUPUI University Library.
Together, both experienced and new Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on women artists and artworks of Indiana.

Friday, March 17th from 10am-3pm, in Stout Reference Library, Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art), 4000 North Michigan Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46208

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Upcoming Indianapolis event - May 13: Indiana Politics & Government 2023

It's been an eventful state legislative session in Indiana, and local elections took place this week, so we have lots to cover! You are invited to The AMP at 16 Tech in Indianapolis for a Politics & Government editathon to improve write articles about local political and government topics of interest and improve information about local officials, candidates, elections, and legislation. Come join us at this fun venue, with free parking and refreshments provided!

Saturday, May 13: Indiana Politics & Government 2023 (RSVP), focusing on Indiana politics and government and the Indiana Spring 2023 session.

11am–4pm The AMP at 16 Tech in Indianapolis, IN.

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Saturday, June 24: Wikipedia:Meetup/Indianapolis/Wiki Loves Pride 2023 (RSVP), focusing on Indiana LGBT history and culture.

2 pm to 5 pm at the Spades Park Branch of The Indianapolis Public Library.

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Upcoming Indianapolis event - July 30, 2023: Indiana State Fair Wiknic

We are partnering with the Indiana State Fair to offer FREE tickets to the fair for Wikipedians! We will be meeting on July 30th at 10am to pass out tickets and have a quick info session before we attend the fair (feel free to branch off and share your accomplishments on the Meetup page later!) Detailed instructions on how the day will go is available on the Meetup page! We hope you'll join us to edit about things related to fair (historic buildings, foods, animals, activities, and the fair itself).
All levels of experience are welcome! Please RSVP so we know who is coming. We hope you'll join us!

Sunday, June 30: Wikipedia:Meetup/Indianapolis/State Fair Wiknic (RSVP), focusing on topics related to the Indiana State Fair.

10 am to ? at the Indiana State Fairgrounds; meet at the Deaf School Gateway

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You're invited! Underrepresented Artists of Indiana editathon on Oct. 11

Upcoming Indianapolis event - October 11, 2023: Indiana Under-represented Artists Edit-a-thon

Herron School of Art and Design

You are invited to Herron Art Library in
Herron School of Art & Design for an Under-represented Artists of Indiana Edit-a-thon—hosted by the Wikimedians of Indiana User Group
with support from the Central Indiana Community Foundation. Together, new and experienced Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on under-represented Indiana based artists and art/artist organizations and groups in Indiana today, and historically.

When: Wednesday October 11, 2023 11:30 am - 2:00 pm Eastern

Where: Herron Art Library in Herron School of Art & Design 735 W. New York St. Indianapolis, IN 46202

Parking: Please park in lot 88 - the visitor parking area in the garage across the surface lot from Herron. We will have parking vouchers available.

What to bring: Your preferred editing device and necessary charging cables, and any material you may want to reference. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

All levels of experience are welcome! Please RSVP so we know who is coming. We hope you'll join us!

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