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15:28, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi can u suggest approval to this wiki page I’ve been waiting for a long time to see appear when I search for it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1045490040 Fahad naji00 (talk) 23:41, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Sorry about that, it was an accident. Maybe something went wrong when I tried to edit a huge page all at once and I should turn on the option to get an edit link for the lede section. :( Double sharp (talk) 07:52, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:06, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
If you want User:AlexNewArtBot/Children to collect articles about children, you should change it. Nobody born in the 1990s is a child, and it's missing the entire 2010s decade. —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 05:19, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi @Bamyers99, love your CleanupWorklistBot (and have been using it for years!) Are you taking feature requests? Per the prior link, I've started graphing cleanup issue counts as a motivational tool. I think it would be a natural inclusion for most active WikiProject/noticeboard home pages and would have farther reach if it didn't have to be generated manually. If your bot could update .tab files at Commons, we'd be able to automatically generate these on-wiki using Template:Graph:Lines. Might you be interested or is this an idea for WP:BOTREQ? czar 00:42, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Bamyers99,
I stumbled upon this report which apparently is issued by your bot and not AlexNewArtBot. I was wondering if you could tell me, briefly, what causes a page to be added to this report. I looked at the "rules" but it might as well have been in Greek and I didn't understand it. Thanks for any translation you can provide. I was just curious if, as an admin, I should be checking on the pages listed on the report as I do for other bot reports. Liz Read! Talk! 02:59, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Hey Bamyers, I was wondering if there was a way to increase the amount of unique results shown in the TemplateParametersTool report, maybe shown in a sub-page? The list in the report is very helpful in quickly searching the values of some parameters for incorrect input but it currently does not show any values if there are more than 50 unique results. Gonnym (talk) 07:37, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
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20:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
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20:34, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Two thoughts for you: (1) Would you consider adding Category:CS1 errors: generic title to the categories for which CleanupWorklistBot checks? It's a good category that doesn't appear to be covered. (2) Likewise, would you consider removing Category:All articles containing potentially dated statements? It's not a backlog category and mostly contains items that do not require action, so it winds up listing articles that do not need maintenance. czar 05:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Re edits like this and this, I'm not sure if adding a single set of coordinates is particularly useful for a length, curvy feature like a river. If you're willing to take a couple minutes to add {{Infobox river}}, it allows multiple coordinates (source, confluence, mouth), and tells the user which part of the river the coordinates are pointing to. The ideal is to also add {{Attached KML}} so the user can pull up a map, but that takes some time to create the KML file. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:35, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Greetings, Today I discovered a possible error with WP Football bot results.
For these, they have Talk pages with WP Football, so that looks okay. At https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/alpha/Football.html, I switched over to the Alpha list (insead of by Category), and these articles are still missing. JoeNMLC (talk) 23:38, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
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20:00, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
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Special:MentorDashboard
. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.action=ajax
, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. jquery.jStorage
, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage
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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, December 2021 | ||
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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
September 2019
October 2019
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In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
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.) |
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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Anyone can edit and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 11#Anyone can edit until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 15:54, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Cleanup templates and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 12#Cleanup templates until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 10:40, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
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good work Kaka Kel (talk) 13:34, 13 January 2022 (UTC) |
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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
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21:36, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, January 2022 | ||
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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 January 2020
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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) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) |
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