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Unanswered Peer Review Requests[edit]

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Engineering and technology
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Thessaloniki Metro (Request) 2018-09-08
Nuclear power (Request) 2018-08-29
Performance fabrics (Request) 2018-08-19
Gold Box (Request) 2018-08-18
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Request) 2018-08-03

You can see a list of all categories at WP:PRWAITING. We hope to see you soon Wikipedia:Peer Review. Happy Reviewing! KadaneBot (talk) 17:43, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RFBOT[edit]

Your recent bot approvals request has been Approved. Please see the request page for details. SQLQuery me! 12:49, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@SQL: Thanks for the time you took to review the request. Cheers. Kadane (talk) 15:02, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New articles?[edit]

Why did wikipedia take down the option to create new pages? Now drafting is the only way to go. Harwn733 (talk) 04:25, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Harwn733: - You can still create articles on Wikipedia, but you must first become Auto Confirmed. Usually you become auto-confirmed after you have been on Wikipedia for 4 days and have a total of 10 edits. If you decide to stick around you will be auto confirmed in no time! P.S. I left a welcome message on your talk page to help you get started around Wikipedia. Kadane (talk) 04:29, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I need a guide or a tutor for now, then. Harwn733 (talk) 04:47, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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@Harwn733: - Thanks for the cookies! I very much appreciate it :D. Kadane (talk) 05:00, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Help in Nomination procedure[edit]

See DE-9IM, thanks! Krauss (talk) 08:26, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Unanswered Peer Review Requests[edit]

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Engineering and technology
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Thessaloniki Metro (Peer Review) 2018-09-08
Nuclear power (Peer Review) 2018-08-29
Gold Box (Peer Review) 2018-08-18
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Peer Review) 2018-08-03

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What happened to you?[edit]

School work got you too busy? I was just curious, since you were so active, including IRC, and now I don't see you at all. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 17:40, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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KadaneBot for peer reviews[edit]

Thansks for making this bot! It seems to have stopped working for November and December? ... could I ask (apologies if this is stated somewhere) - do such bots run automatically or do they rely on you activating it? --Tom (LT) (talk) 00:42, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Tom (LT): - Wow, I am sorry I dropped the ball on this. My wikipedia email was not being forwarded to my main email, and I didn't see this message until now.
I will run the bot now so we can get the notifications out. My cron job was improperly setup, so it didn't go out automatically. I can fix this and continue to run the bot if you would like, or I can pass it off to someone else. Either way, I will have the source code posted on User:KadaneBot today.
My email is now forwarding to my email I check every day, I will be much more responsive. Let me know what you would like to do. Kadane (talk) 00:59, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Great to hear from you!! Very pleased to hear that you're back, and thanks for setting this up and making the source code available :). --Tom (LT) (talk) 09:56, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! Thanks for your understanding Kadane (talk) 16:44, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Unanswered Peer Review Requests[edit]

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Engineering and technology
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Distributed element circuit (Peer Review) 2019-02-22
Console game (Peer Review) 2019-01-14
Everyday life
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Marchioness disaster (Peer Review) 2019-02-17
Fred Keenor (Peer Review) 2019-02-16
India national football team at the Olympics (Peer Review) 2019-01-21
Empires of Eve (Peer Review) 2019-01-03
Nintendo 3DS (Peer Review) 2018-12-30

You can see a list of all categories at WP:PRWAITING. We hope to see you soon Wikipedia:Peer Review. Happy Reviewing! KadaneBot (talk) 01:04, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Toolforge[edit]

Hi Kadane, it's been a while since I signed up. Sign up instructions. Says takes a week to get an ID but I remember it being a fast turnaround. Login to here with the new ID (eg. Kadane) and create a tool name (eg. prvbot). Then ssh to login-stretch.tools.wmflabs.org with the login ID - once there enter "become <toolname>". Thus there is the main ssh login ID, and for each tool created via the account web interface a separate "become" login name. Running bots is done on the grid, an array of 40+ servers where jobs are submitted. Following is an example cron job submission for one my bots shorty.awk to get an idea of the argument options:

37 5 * * 0,3,5 /usr/bin/jsub -quiet -once -N shorty.awk -l mem_free=50M,h_vmem=100M -e /data/project/botwikiawk/shorty/shorty.stderr -o /data/project/botwikiawk/shorty/shorty.stdout -v "AWKPATH=.:/data/project/botwikiawk/BotWikiAwk/lib" -v "PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/data/project/botwikiawk/BotWikiAwk/bin" -wd /data/project/botwikiawk/shorty /data/project/botwikiawk/shorty/shorty.awk

(BTW you can see it in the directory /data/project/botwikiawk)

More info at Help:Toolforge, Help:Toolforge/Grid and 'man jsub' and 'man qsub'. -- GreenC 22:22, 6 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenC: - Awesome! That is easy enough. I got my application submitted. Thanks for the info. Kadane (talk) 04:53, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@GreenC and Tom (LT): - I got the bot setup on Toolforge. It is set to run every day at 4 AM UTC. Thanks for the help GreenC :) Kadane (talk) 04:15, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unanswered Peer Review Requests[edit]

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Everyday life
Article Date Added
Fred Keenor (Peer Review) 2019-02-16
India national football team at the Olympics (Peer Review) 2019-01-21
Empires of Eve (Peer Review) 2019-01-03
Nintendo 3DS (Peer Review) 2018-12-30

You can see a list of all categories at WP:PRWAITING. We hope to see you soon Wikipedia:Peer Review. Happy Reviewing! KadaneBot (talk) 04:49, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Content model[edit]

Kadane, would you mind if I request that the content model of User:KadaneBot/PR/Jsondump be changed to JSON?

If you don't know what "content model" means, this will:

  1. Make the page only editable by the bot and administrators
  2. Make the page render in a (slightly) more human-readable way

See Wikipedia:Geonotice/list.json for an example of what a JSON page looks like.

{{3x|p}}ery (talk) 23:24, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Pppery: - I am not sure how to get the content model changed, but I don't mind at all. Tell me what I need to do. Kadane (talk) 01:33, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Change content model to JSON. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 01:34, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:01, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Engineering and technology
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Bot errors[edit]

Hi. A few of the edits that KadaneBot has made do not involve the redirect pointing to a disambiguation page e.g. [1] or [2]. It looks like they used to point to dab pages but now don't. Tassedethe (talk) 22:35, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's interesting Tassedethe, the API is still reporting those pages as disambiguation pages. I've stopped the bot for now, I will look into this tonight. Kadane (talk) 23:06, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Tassedethe: I figured out the issue and ran a scan through the edits. It seems like this was an isolated incidence (so far) and you caught all the false positives. I've cleaned everything up.

There are a lot of edits to go, so I really appreciate you catching this error!

Kadane (talk) 17:22, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Kadane: relatedly, when do you think you'll have time to tackle 'Case 1' from Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/KadaneBot_3? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:29, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Headbomb: I was planning on filing a BRFA after the end of my semester which is May 3rd. We are about to enter crunch time with finals. Kadane (talk) 21:46, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Cool. Good luck on your exams! Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:53, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Kadane (talk) 00:59, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Cincinnati chili (Peer Review) 2019-04-26
1982 Formula One World Championship (Peer Review) 2019-04-12
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Peer Review) 2019-04-07

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The request[edit]

Hi, a couple of months ago you answered my request over at Bot requests. If you find time for it you are more than welcome to help.[3]BabbaQ (talk) 07:14, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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DMC DeLorean (Peer Review) 2019-05-29
Distributed element circuit (Peer Review) 2019-02-22

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Bots Newsletter, August 2019[edit]

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List of largest cruise ships (Peer Review) 2019-08-12
Pokémon Stadium (Peer Review) 2019-08-01
Mat Dickie (Peer Review) 2019-07-31
Dig Dug Island (Peer Review) 2019-07-28
Nintendo Research & Engineering (Peer Review) 2019-07-24
U.S. Route 70 in Arizona (Peer Review) 2019-07-04
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Ryzen (Peer Review) 2019-07-13
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List of largest cruise ships (Peer Review) 2019-08-12
Pokémon Stadium (Peer Review) 2019-08-01
Mat Dickie (Peer Review) 2019-07-31
Dig Dug Island (Peer Review) 2019-07-28

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Energy in Vietnam (Peer Review) 2019-09-26
MAX Red Line (Peer Review) 2019-09-11
Renewable energy in Vietnam (Peer Review) 2019-09-10
List of largest cruise ships (Peer Review) 2019-08-12
Pokémon Stadium (Peer Review) 2019-08-01
Dig Dug Island (Peer Review) 2019-07-28

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Renewable energy in Vietnam (Peer Review) 2019-09-10
List of largest cruise ships (Peer Review) 2019-08-12
Dig Dug Island (Peer Review) 2019-07-28

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WikiProject Peer Review newsletter[edit]

Depiction by Raphael of Aristotle in the School of Athens receiving some useful feedback during an active peer review

Hello to all! This is the second Wikipedia Peer Review newsletter, containing some updates relating to peer review since the initial newsletter in August 2018. I intend these as infrequent newsletters that can be used to interact with interested editors and also let people know about relevant changes.

Thanks again to everyone who has been responding and helping out at peer review, it's great to see the venue so active.

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What's new?[edit]

New closure script

There's a new script you can use to automate the process of closing a review. Now, for most reviews you just need to click a button (hurray!)

Developed by User:WritKeeper, to whom we are all very thankful, there is a script to help automate closing peer reviews. To use the script:

  • Copy importScript('User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/peerReviewCloser.js'); into your Special:MyPage/common.js
  • When you view a review, click on the tab that says "More" and then "Close peer review". The tab can be found near the "History" tab

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Change to peer review volunteer list formatting[edit]

The formatting of peer review volunteers (WP:PRV) has changed, so this will likely impact the function of your both. At present I think integrating it with WP:FRS is the best course of action as this helps keep things consistent with other areas of wikipedia. I hope that you're well in real life, Tom (LT) (talk) 03:53, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Inactive peer review volunteer[edit]

Hi Kadane, you're receiving this message because you were previously listed at the list of volunteers for Wikipedia's peer review process, but you haven't made any edits to the English Wikipedia in over 1 year.

Because of your inactivity, you have been removed from the volunteers list, so that the list is kept up to date and editors who do need help can better find active editors. If you become active again and would like to add yourself to the volunteers list again, you can do so at any time by visiting the volunteers list.

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Bots Newsletter, December 2021[edit]

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
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, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 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!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? 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

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

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[edit]

Bots Newsletter, January 2022
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, Green checkmarkY 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with Dark red X symbolN2 8 denied, Blue question mark? 2 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

January 2020

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

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

March 2020

April 2020

Listeria being examined

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise 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

June 2020

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

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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Inactive bot notice[edit]

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