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DRN page not updating?

I'm not entirely sure about this: but the table at the top of the WP:DRN page looks like it has not been updated in a couple of days. There are 5 or 6 DRN cases that are closed (grey) and usually the bot removes the grey cases within a day or less. Maybe all the cases closed in the past 24 hours? but a couple look like they are 2 days old. Not too sure. Thought you'd want to know. --Noleander (talk) 20:52, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi. So I'm looking stuff over, and I believe they're still in the chart because they're still present on the WP:DRN page itself. As for that, I believe MiszaBot II simply hasn't gotten to them yet. When it archives those cases, they should be removed from the chart. If not, I'll look again and see what else could be up. Thanks. — Earwig talk 20:58, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Could be. I'm not too sure how that whole DRN archiving thing works. Thanks for looking into it. --Noleander (talk) 20:59, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Bot not working

I just wanted to notify you that User:EarwigBot has failed to perform tasks 2 and 3 since 05:35, May 8, 2013 even though they are set to "run". — Gmt2001 (talk) 09:46, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi:
  • Task 2: Toolserver replication lag is high right now (91,933 seconds at last check). The bot won't update the chart when lag is too high because the data would be incorrect and to avoid overloading the servers further; we can't do anything but wait for it to come down.
  • Task 3: seems fine to me – Category:AfC submissions by date/12 May 2013 was created on-time.
Thanks. — Earwig talk 20:45, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Aaah ok. Also, what is with the bot putting a ton of "Unknown" listings for submitter name/date even when there are submission templates with the name and timestamp? — Gmt2001 (talk) 00:00, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Not sure; that seems new-ish. I'll look into it. — Earwig talk 00:03, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Also, one of these is an article that passed AfC in October 2012, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Frané Lessac. It doesn't even have tags, its just a redirect now (though i have XfDed it)— Gmt2001 (talk) 00:06, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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Bot?

Is it down? Its last update at DRN was 5:30 (utc-7)?--Cameron11598 (Converse) 06:13, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Yep, the Toolserver's having some pretty serious problems right now. Nothing I can do at the moment, sorry. — Earwig talk 07:16, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
I thought it might be something like that. Thanks for the quick response! --Cameron11598 (Converse) 23:42, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
Just got an update from TS admins, and the downtime could extend for two weeks. If it remains that bad, I'll negotiate an alternate solution when I have some free time (that'll be running the bot from a personal server with slightly limited functionality). — Earwig talk 23:58, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Template:AFC statistics

Can you change the date/time stamps to a form that will properly sort by date?

Also, can you put a "last ran" timestamp at the top of the output? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 22:18, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

I just tried to sort by date, and it appears to sort correctly. Can you describe what's happening?
I've always preferred the last run timestamp at the bottom where it is now, instead of the top where it would distract from other things. Admittedly, it's a bit small for such a large chart, so I made it a bit bigger. — Earwig talk 22:36, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
The submitted time sorts fine. The last modified time does not. A prominent "last updated" is useful if the bot isn't running on its regular schedule. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 23:25, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Ah, I see now. Looks like a problem in Module:AfC, which we recently started using over Template:AFC statistics/row. I think I fixed it. And I agree that the timestamp is more useful when the bot is having problems, but I'm not going to move anything around at this moment. I'll think about it again later. — Earwig talk 23:46, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Earwig bot- WP:DRN

See this--Cameron11598 (Converse) 21:32, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It looks like something had broken, but everything should be fixed now. — Earwig talk 23:27, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
No problem thanks for the quick response! --Cameron11598 (Converse) 04:02, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Hey there - the bot seems to be up and running again but there are some bugs it seems. Could you take a look at this post which describes the issue in a bit more detail and see if there's something you can fix? Thanks in advance, Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 18:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm confused; the bot hasn't run since a few days ago (check contribs or WP:DRN's page history) so I don't see how the reported errors apply. Coincidentally (I just got home), the Toolserver is slightly working at the moment, so I've been able to start it. We'll see what happens? — Earwig talk 21:01, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

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DRN not updating

It seems like the bot isn't updating the Template:DRN case status or the noticeboard itself since it's last edit on the noticeboard here. Does there appear to be an issue with the bot, or is there something I'm causing that's resulting in this?

Another editor also noted that the case status wasn't updated and updated it accordingly here. Crashdoom Talk 22:50, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Same thing as above. — Earwig talk 23:15, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Turning DRN into a subpage format

Hey there. It seems that we will be trying a different format at DRN where cases are subpages, and transcluded, rather than on the one page. Toolserver issues aside, how long do you think this would take to implement (and what would you need me to do to line things up?) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 13:24, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

IIRC, Earwig already wrote the bulk of the code for this...I may be imagining things, though. Theopolisme (talk) 14:25, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, that's what I've said. It's been a while, so I might need some time to look it over since a few changes have been made since then. If you tell me exactly when the new system is going to be put in place, I should have it ready by that point. — Earwig talk 17:27, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, The Earwig. You have new messages at Wikipedia_talk:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Dealing_with_manually_filed_and_reopened_and_similar_nonstandard_cases.
Message added 15:10, 22 May 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

TransporterMan (TALK) 15:10, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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Template:AfC Pending

Was about to lave a note, but I see you saw my revert/edit summary. Carry on.  :) Cheers, --j⚛e deckertalk 19:26, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

AFC statistics not updating?

Template:AFC statistics seems to have stopped updating last night at 10pm UTC. Is there any particular reason why this happened? Funny Pika! 08:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. — Earwig talk 20:53, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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mwparserfromhell possible issue

Please see github issue. Cheers, Theopolisme (talk) 16:51, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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Beyoncé dispute

Could you tell me what happened to the issue that Jennie X brought up about Beyoncé at the end of May? You put a notice about it on my talk page. thanks--Aichik (talk) 20:23, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

It looks like someone already replied on your talk, but it's been archived here: Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Archive 72#Beyonce Knowles. Note that I didn't notify you directly; my bot did, and that's completely automatic, so I have no knowledge of the case myself. — Earwig talk 22:15, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Copyvio tool

The article waveguide filter seems to break your copyvio tool. Is there a limit on the number of sources it can handle? The article has quite a long bibliography. SpinningSpark 09:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll take a look. The error is probably unrelated to sources (it doesn't check links on the page directly), but I have an idea. — Earwig talk 20:45, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Request: Automatically do the redirect if one exists (USA -> United States) before checking for copyvio. --74.202.39.3 (talk) 21:28, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Noted. — Earwig talk 23:04, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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Bot

Why did your bot make this edit, instead of following the redirect? CTF83! 03:46, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

A mistake on my part; thanks for reporting it. Fixed for the future. — Earwig talk 08:12, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! CTF83! 10:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject AFC needs your help... again

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from July 1st, 2013 – July 31st, 2013.

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There is a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

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Tyson Swindell

Hi, I believe I PRODded this in September 2012, and the PROD went through. Is it really possible to contest a PROD 9 months later? In any event, the page was the sole creation of a blocked editor who is also a major sockpuppeteer. So can't the page be deleted (again) under CSD G5? Thanks. Logical Cowboy (talk) 23:46, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it's possible to contest a PROD at any time, unless it's a BLPPROD, in which case at least one reliable source must be provided before undeletion.

"blocked editor who is also a major sockpuppeteer" - True, but their first block was not until August, when they created the page before said block. G5 only applies when edits/creations are done in violation of their block/ban; as they were under no block/ban at the time it doesn't apply. Other interesting thing, it took me a few minutes to decipher the SPI in question, but it looks like Morning277 was the master, and as their first block was in August of 2012 was not in violation of any blocks/bans on other accounts (by virtue of being master, master is usually first account), so again, no G5.

This was undeleted per a request on the help desk, and can still be sent to AfD if you so desire. I made no comment on it other than to request it's undeletion per procedure. Charmlet (talk) 00:08, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

To clarify, Charmlet's the one who asked me undelete the page; I simply fulfilled the admin-y part of the request. — Earwig talk 00:12, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
because earwig is awesome and is trusted with the bits I not has (and is also someone I could contact quickly) Charmlet (talk) 00:30, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
OK, thanks for the quick replies. Awww, it was his dad. OK, maybe there is a bit of skepticism there. But you are both awesome--thanks for your contributions to WP! Logical Cowboy (talk) 00:38, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

How quaint

Do you, like, actually exist? Blurpeace 01:25, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

No. — Earwig talk 01:31, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
It's Earwig, need he actually exist to be useful? Charmlet (talk) 01:34, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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Deletion of SUADE

Hello Earwig,

I just wanted to request you undelete SUADE. They are just about to release their 3rd album. If I have made a mistake on the page I do apologise. I am new to wiki and am still learning what changes to make and how to improve citations. Do I have to start fresh or can you undelete and I can change the name.

As per 20:57, 6 May 2012 The Earwig (talk | contribs) deleted page SUADE (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement: http://www.suade.net/)

How have I infringed on copyright?

http://www.suade.net/ That is their correct website.

Can you please get back to me as to what I have done wrong or should correct. And can you undelete the page so I can update for new album and changes to members of the group.

Thanks Tricia Ziemer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tricia Ziemer (talk • contribs) 04:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Tricia,
Because much of the article was either copied or closely paraphrased from http://www.suade.net/the-guys and http://suade.net/suade-bio, I cannot undelete the page for you. Content on Wikipedia must be freely licensed, and you may not simply copy/paraphrase it from other online sources per our copyright policy. All content in the article must be written from scratch. I hope that clarifies the reason for deletion. Now, if you are authorized as (or work with) the copyright holder of that content, you can grant us permission to use it (see the page on donating copyrighted materials for details). Before doing so, however, I would suggest that starting fresh will be easier. Wikipedia articles need to adhere to a fairly strict neutral point of view, and the goal of an encyclopedia article (compiling what is already available in published, reliable sources) is different from the goal of a group's website (advertising). To start, I would suggest making a list of the group's appearances in newspapers, magazines, reliable websites, and the like, then writing an article that uses information from those sources to build a profile on the group.
I hope that helps. Let me know if you have further questions. — Earwig talk 05:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Earwig..yes I do have copyright release from them, but I will write it from scratch and yes I have links to their media events, news paper, xfactor etc. But from scratch is fine. Yes, I am learning to be less emotive with my edits.

Thanks for that. Ta Tricia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tricia Ziemer (talk • contribs) 06:31, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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AFCH

I noticed you pushed some commits while I was gone. Thanks for your help, but I need to give you a trout for that because you pushed all of mabdul's alpha changes into master instead of develop. Please be more careful so I don't accidentally push alpha stuff to the stable build on-wiki.

If you have any clones of WPAFC/afch lying around, you need to run these two commands on them because I broke the tags and had to update:

git tag -l | xargs git tag -d

git fetch --prune

Sorry for the trouble. --Nathan2055talk - contribs 00:38, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

See, here's the problem: you have develop, but you don't have it set as the integration branch in github's config (which I'm fairly certain I told you to do), so pull request merges go to master by default. I didn't make any commits aside from merging in pull requests from mabdul, which was hard enough given that they were formatted incorrectly. Therefore, it is very unclear how you want development to be structured, and at that point I could have only guessed and done what mabdul had said (which was merge into master). — Earwig talk 02:45, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Integration branch? Wha? I have no idea what you mean. --Nathan2055talk - contribs 13:38, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I linked you to git flow a while ago, which describes the integration branch as origin/develop, which "reflects a state with the latest delivered development changes for the next release". Thus, this is where you would want pull requests to be merged into in most cases. On Github, if you go to a repository's config, one of the first options will be "default branch", which is currently set to master, but you want to set it to develop for this to work. — Earwig talk 18:21, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
Thanks for your many responses to IRC requests for on-wiki admin help. Pine✉ 06:46, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! — Earwig talk 06:48, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

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GOCE Menu Page

Hello,

I appreciate your skills in designing pages; hence, would like to show you the following page: User:JustBerry/GOCEMenu. The "menu page" is a potential menu tab for WP:GOCE. The idea has already been accepted by the WP:GOCE coordinators, but I would certainly appreciate if you could let me know any ideas/suggestions you may have for the page. Thanks. --JustBerry (talk) 18:13, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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A very kind person who is willing to help others and is modest in his achievements. Enjoy your barnstar! JustBerry (talk) 19:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! — Earwig talk 19:29, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Testing older versions of pages?

Is there any way to use EarwigBot to test older versions of pages? I just re-wrote SK8 and EarwigBot (super-cool, BTW) now flags it as clean - although I see some things I need to touch up further. But I'm more curious in using it to ensure that the older versions actually did have the widespread copyvio I believed I saw. Is there any way to do this? Maury Markowitz (talk) 22:23, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

The copyvio tool doesn't, at the moment, but it's planned for the near future. Check back in a week or so. — Earwig talk 23:38, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Most excellent! Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:20, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

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DRN change to subpages

Hi there. How much notice do you need to implement the change to subpaging for DRN (and is it possible that we could have the existing threads moved to a subpage and detected by the bot?) I've got the new code ready to implement, so please let me know when you are ready. Thanks in advance :) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 01:16, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Nothing's changed since the last time you asked me this question. — Earwig talk 01:31, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Ugh, my memory sucks as of late. Is it possible that we could implement the changes at 00:00 UTC 18th July (and what will you need me to do once that time comes?) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 01:43, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Sounds good. You won't have to do anything other than move the existing threads to subpages, since the bot can only follow one system at a time. Otherwise, don't change the threads themselves (including the bot case IDs). I'll keep an eye on the noticeboard and push the new code once you're finished moving stuff over. — Earwig talk 02:42, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Alright, it's all ready to go for you. I'll move the existing threads to subpages. Not sure how to add them back to DRN. Let me know. Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 01:33, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Just transclude them? Wasn't that the idea? — Earwig talk 01:37, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, I just thought things may need to be done for the initial changeover. I'm trying to iron out an issue at moment, the case status template isn't showing up on the subpages but still exists in the code...any ideas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steven Zhang (talk • contribs) 01:52, July 18, 2013‎
I don't see any subpages yet except for Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Testing (and the other two you made), and those don't have the template on them. — Earwig talk 02:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

It's late, and I need to sleep. It doesn't look like you're done transitioning yet, so this will have to continue tomorrow (or later, as I might not be available). The bot is off in the mean time. — Earwig talk 08:09, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't realise you were still waiting on me on this. All the code has been properly updated now, the kinks have been ironed out and I'm going to complete the sub paging this evening. You should be good to flip the switch once you come on. :) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 10:14, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
OK, I'm all done. All existing disputes have been subpaged (I left the bot count in, I wasn't sure if you wanted it taken out or not). I've broken up DRN into two parts, current disputes and recently closed disputes. Both of these will list disputes in a similar format to how RFAs are listed (as you can see here), when the bot adds new listings is it possible to keep the same sort of format? I am also wondering if once a dispute is marked as closed, the bot can after, say, 30 minutes, move it to the recently closed cases section. When it does this, it add it to the section in the format of {{Closed DRN|subpage name}}. After 2 days, it'd be archived in the DRN archives. Is this something you can do? (Oh, and are you coming to Wikimania by any chance?) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 14:36, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Shouldn't be too hard to manage, but this is unfortunately a bit of a crappy time for me (I'm away for the next few days, with only a netbook, which makes developing hard). I can't start the bot right now, but hopefully tomorrow. — Earwig talk 04:20, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
OK, cool. I should be able to manage in the meantime :) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 09:45, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
Oh, and regarding Wikimania: not this year, unfortunately; Hong Kong is pretty far from here. Next year looks promising, though. — Earwig talk 23:54, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
That's a shame. Any progress on the bot? Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 12:14, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Still away from home; haven't had a chance to work yet. — Earwig talk 06:29, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
OK, sure. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 21:53, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Hold on, the task isn't clear to me right now. You're asking the bot to take over discovering (i.e. transcluding) new cases and archiving old ones, too? That was never its role before, so you have to excuse my confusion. I think the filing script should handle the former; no reason for a bot to. As for the latter, I'm not MiszaBot, which means you'll need to instruct me how archiving works. Would you rather I follow the {{User:MiszaBot/config}} template (except that only closed cases are archived, removing the need for DNU comments), or something else? — Earwig talk 01:13, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Copyvio, schmopivio

Hey Earwig! I'm getting a Mako Runtime Error with [1]:

Extended content
IndexError: list index out of range

</ul> <table id="cv-chain-table"> <tr> <td class="cv-chain-cell">Article: <div class="cv-chain-detail"><p>${highlight_delta(result.article_chain, result.delta_chain)}</p></div></td> <td class="cv-chain-cell">Source: <div class="cv-chain-detail"><p>${highlight_delta(result.source_chain, result.delta_chain)}</p></div></td> </tr> </table> </div> </div>

./toolserver/copyvios/highlighter.py, line 29:
if highlights[i]:

pages/copyvios.mako, line 135:
<td class="cv-chain-cell">Article: <div class="cv-chain-detail"><p>${highlight_delta(result.article_chain, result.delta_chain)}</p></div></td>

/home/earwig/.local/solaris/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Mako-0.7.2-py2.7.egg/mako/runtime.py, line 817:
callable_(context, *args, **kwargs)

Just thought I'd let you know. Thanks! Theopolisme (talk) 21:01, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Yep, known issue that I will look at soon-ish, but thanks for the report. — Earwig talk 04:16, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Another error message with [2]:

Extended content
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find_all'

<%include file="/support/header.mako" args="environ=environ, cookies=cookies, title='Copyvio Detector', add_css=('copyvios.css',), add_js=('copyvios.js',)"/>\ <%namespace module="toolserver.copyvios" import="main, highlight_delta"/>\ <%namespace module="toolserver.misc" import="urlstrip"/>\ <% query, bot, all_langs, all_projects, page, result = main(environ) %>\ % if query.project and query.lang and query.title and not page: <div class="red-box"> <p>The given site (project=<b><tt>${query.project | h}</tt></b>, language=<b><tt>${query.lang | h}</tt></b>) doesn't seem to exist. It may also be closed or private. <a href="//${query.lang | h}.${query.project | h}.org/">Confirm its URL.</a></p> </div> % elif query.project and query.lang and query.title and page and not result:

/home/earwig/git/earwigbot/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py, line 140:
for comment in soup.find_all(text=is_comment):

/home/earwig/git/earwigbot/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/__init__.py, line 115:
source = MarkovChain(HTMLTextParser(html).strip())

/home/earwig/git/earwigbot/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/__init__.py, line 176:
conf, chns = self._copyvio_compare_content(article_chain, url)

./toolserver/copyvios/checker.py, line 28:
result = page.copyvio_check(max_queries=10, max_time=45)

./toolserver/copyvios/__init__.py, line 23:
page, result = get_results(bot, site, query)

pages/copyvios.mako, line 4:
<% query, bot, all_langs, all_projects, page, result = main(environ) %>\

/home/earwig/.local/solaris/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Mako-0.7.2-py2.7.egg/mako/runtime.py, line 817:
callable_(context, *args, **kwargs)

Just figured I'd let you know about this variation as well, in case it helps. Theopolisme (talk) 22:35, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:AfC batch warning

Template:AfC batch warning has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. mabdul 16:06, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Request for attention

You're listed as an active member of the Bot Approvals Group. I would like to draw your attention to the outstanding WP:BRFA requests (including requests that are specificly flagging as need BAG attention). Please take a few minutes out of your busy schedule and take a look at the open requests. Thank you Hasteur (talk) 18:15, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Posted on a few of them, and keeping an eye on some others. Thanks for the poke. — Earwig talk 01:35, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
For your work on the AfC helper script! APerson (talk!) 13:37, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#A proposed tool for reducing backlogs

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#A proposed tool for reducing backlogs. APerson (talk!) 17:32, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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Template:AFC statistics

The bot has stopped updating Template:AFC statistics. The last update was at 08:19, 4 October 2013‎ (UTC), over 20 hours ago. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 04:39, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

I attempted a restart of that task, but clearly it hasn't worked. -- t numbermaniac c 13:09, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
The servers the bot runs on (Wikimedia Labs right now) have a replicated version of the WMF databases. Sometimes this database goes out of sync with the live one (which we call "replication lag" or "replag"). The bot chooses to not update the chart when replag is high, because the data it produces would be out of date anyway, and it would further stress an already-overloaded database. Replag is about a day and five hours right now (that is to say, the replicated databases haven't updated in a day and five hours), which is obviously too much for the bot to work around. It also corresponds with the time the bot stopped editing, so the issue isn't on my end.
I reported the problem to Labs admins, who have identified the source of the issue and are hopefully going to get it fixed really soon.
As an aside, Numbermaniac, editing the task's shutoff page won't actually stop it from running, but instead stop it from editing, so that's can't resolve this kind of issue. Only I can restart the bot. — Earwig talk 13:42, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Suggestion: Modify the bot code so that when it runs correctly, it shows the date that it ran AND some idea of how current the database was. When it fails to run, have it just re-post the previous page but with an extra note at the top saying that due to technical difficulties it could not complete successfully, and that the output of the last successful run follows. Or words to that effect. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 17:11, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps. There's {{Toolserver}} for displaying Toolserver replag, but no template for Labs – I guess because we haven't had any issues until this point that I know of. We'll see what happens after the issue is resolved. — Earwig talk 21:03, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
I knew it wouldn't restart it, I just thought it might make it realize something wasn't right. -- t numbermaniac c 01:59, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
As another note, I've just received word that the problem has been fixed (finally!), and it looks like the databases are catching up. Expect the next report in a few hours. — Earwig talk 02:31, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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Oddity in DRN case status page

I wasn't aware that EarwigBot could traverse time [3] (with respect to "Orthodox Christianity in Taiwan" thread). Any idea what happened here? Hasteur (talk) 21:09, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Hmmmm... that's funny. Someone faked a timestamp that hasn't happened yet, and my time formatter was unprepared for times in the future, hence the garbage output. I pushed a quick change so in the future the bot will output a warning message. — Earwig talk 22:03, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

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Earwigbot stopped updating Template:AFC statistics again

It hasn't run since October 17. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 00:26, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Yep, exactly the same issue as before. I was told about ~32 hours ago that the database admin was aware and would get to it when he could. Excuse me for expecting Labs to not have replication problems like the Toolserver did, but if this continues, I'll definitely implement your suggestion from earlier. — Earwig talk 00:30, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

New REFBot

There is a suggestion on Wikipedia:Bot requests#New REFBot for a new REFBot working as DPL bot and BracketBot do. I beg politely for consideration. Please leave a comment if you wish. Maybe you could work on it like you did it with other projects? That would be fine. Thanks a lot in anticipation. -- Frze (talk · contribs) 10:28, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HD media player

Greetings! As a member of WikiProject Computing, You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the Article for deletion on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HD media player. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! Thanks. 188.245.75.122 (talk) 20:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

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Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon! Saturday November 2

Jefferson Market Public Library
 Please join Wikipedia "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon on November 2, 2013!
Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach
for Greenwich Village articles on the history and the community.

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Thanks for the ip-exemption

Thanks again - it'll help me when I start getting back into the groove. Accents 22:58, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Let me know if you need further help with anything. — Earwig talk 22:59, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

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WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

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Talkback!

Hello, The Earwig. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Tech question.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--MrScorch6200 (t c) 01:17, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Faulty notification

Hi. Your bot notified me on this page which I think is an error.. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 23:02, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

You're listed under the "Users involved" section, so I don't see how this could be an error. Sorry, I'm a moron and completely misunderstood your message. Fixed for the future. — Earwig talk 00:39, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

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DRN volunteer list

I'm the current DRN coordinator and I'd like to work on pruning our volunteer list and also on rallying the troops, but I'm not sure which list is the "official one." We have three possibilities:

  1. Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Volunteering#List of the DRN volunteers
  2. The graphical list at the bottom of Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Volunteers
  3. The "old list" section at the top of that same page

Am I correct that the bot only looks at #1 in determining who to list as a volunteer in the status box? Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 19:14, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

I just removed the "old list" section; hope that's not messing something up... — TransporterMan (TALK) 19:45, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, yes. The bot uses Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Volunteering, and considers every user to be a volunteer in the section with the comment "<!-- please don't remove this comment (used by EarwigBot) -->" (which is currently "List of the DRN volunteers", as you noted). — Earwig talk 00:02, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval

There is a backlog at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and therefore it would be nice if you, as a member of the Bot Approvals Group, could take a look at some of them. Armbrust The Homunculus 05:06, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject Articles for creation March 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive

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DR notice to blocked user

Hi, I saw your bot's notice to CYl7EPTEMA777 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CYl7EPTEMA777#Hello.21_There_is_a_DR.2FN_request_you_may_have_interest_in.

I opened the DR case. CYl7EPTEMA777 is blocked illegitimately. How can he join the talk? One goal of the DR case is removing his block. 124.170.231.48 (talk) 05:19, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

I've seen people in this kind of situation respond to comments from users on their talk page, even if they came from elsewhere, but I'm not sure if this is the universal convention. {{helpme}} could be used if the blocked user wants to draw attention to that (otherwise I suppose you could leave a notice on the case page -- "User:X is responding to comments on his talk" or something). — Earwig talk 07:05, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

DR/N Notice Re: Sandy Point, New South Wales

Hello... I just received a message on my talk page about a discussion in Dispute Resolution in which I was invited to participate. When I clicked on the link, I found the discussion closed(?) yet an indication that it was 'ongoing'(?). I have not been involved in Dispute Resolution before so I'm not sure if I am to respond there or not. If you can give me some guidance, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Wikipelli Talk 19:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm really sorry about this – it was an accident. We were having some issues earlier that apparently caused the bot to send out messages to people about already-closed cases; I should have checked. Feel free to ignore it. — Earwig talk 22:09, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! Wikipelli Talk 09:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject African diaspora needs BOT service

Hi The Earwig, wp:WikiProject African diaspora has many child categories in its main category: Category:African diaspora. Many of the descendent categories have not been tagged with project's banner, and the same applies to many children articles. Can your BOT correct this situation? I would appreciate a response on my talk page. Thanks in advance, XOttawahitech (talk) 18:26, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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Bot problem?

Hi, your bot seems to be having a fit of the vapours: it semi delivered a notice to my talk page, but indented it and didn't leave a full message, altho I was able to work out what it was about thanks to the edit summary.TheLongTone (talk) 16:40, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

The bot just substitutes a template; looks like someone messed with it earlier so it ended up substituting an empty string followed by its signature. Tricky, and shouldn't have happened. I don't know if there's a good way to prevent this other than protecting the template (or just hoping it doesn't happen again...) — Earwig talk 21:55, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Ah.TheLongTone (talk) 23:47, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Question about archiving

Can you help me setup an archive on my talk page? I tried to establish a numbered archive like what you have, and also have an index page for easy reference, but I'm not sure I did it correctly. I would very much appreciate your suggestions. Thanks in advance. Atsme☯ talk 08:19, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Atsme. It looks like you've got the archive box working, but bots aren't going to archive your page without using the correct archive settings template. I use MiszaBot's system, which is now run by lowercase sigmabot III, whose instructions are here. I noticed you tagged your page as if you expect it to be archived by ClueBot III; while I've never used it, it has instructions here, which should hopefully be easy to follow. Let me know if you have more specific questions. — Earwig talk 02:11, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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BAG assistance needed

Hi Earwig! There are quite a few Requests for bot approval that are awaiting BAG assistance. Would you be willing to look at some of these? Thanks in advance! GoingBatty (talk) 23:19, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, Earwig. It's Typo385.5 (ok, yes, I changed my username)

Hey, Typo here, I changed my username to UltraMario64 and I resubmitted my userficate template from last September, with some improvements. Could you rereview it? It's way better now. Thanks. UltraMario64 (talk) 07:15, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Again, sorry, I don't understand the use case. If you want something to be userfied, you move it yourself or ask an admin if necessary – I don't foresee a situation where something is "pending" userfication. It's not usually a process that requires consensus, since it's between one or two users (the sole main contributor and any admins involved). — Earwig talk 23:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

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Your attention needed

Hi Earwig, can you please respond to this thread? [4]. Despite your best intentions, the current settings on the Earwigbot are inaccurate and confusing and are inhibiting DRN volunteer participation. We need help with this ASAP. Thanks. -- — Keithbob • Talk • 14:15, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
A very helpful administrator, mentor, and friend. JustBerry (talk) 19:07, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! — Earwig talk 19:10, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Notification of a June AfC BackLog Drive

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Timeshare Tour

  • If the anonymous user was truly sincere about those questions he wanted answered in the article, then I have lost my ability to decipher who is a parasite and who is actually trying to improve the article. I have removed the talk page and the article from my watch list. I will no longer edit timeshare articles. Thanks for your concern-Pocketthis (talk) 22:30, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
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