User talk:Whym/Archive 2

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Bad Bot - hiding discussions

Please don't archive / have your bot archive comments from pages that don't have any sort of archive box (search box and link to archives) on them! Or better yet, add {{Archive box auto}} to all such pages.--Elvey (talk) 20:53, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion - I created a phabricator task (phab:T148013) to discuss technical solutions. In the meantime, I am afraid it is necessary to manually add templates/links that navigate readers to subpages. whym (talk) 03:57, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Bot down?

I see there have been no edits since 19 October. Perhaps it needs a kick? Thanks, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 05:06, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

ArchiverBot

Would it be possible to fix the bot to properly archive discussions closed using {{Discussion top}}/{{Discussion bottom}} if the closed area include discussion headers? Now it makes some mess, see my recent fixes in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems/Archive 61 and Commons:ANU Ankry (talk) 14:03, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

I would suggest putting the templates inside the section, as in "==Header== {{Discussion top}} <!-- comments in the section --> {{Discussion bottom}}". Other than that, I don't see an immediate solution. You can try filing a task on Phabricator to see if others have ideas. whym (talk) 03:52, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikispecies

Would it be possible for ArchiverBot to operate on Wikispecies, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:39, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Sure, it's possible. Before proceeding, I would like to ask five things: local community consensus for runnig the bot, localization of the manual (if not yet available), the name of the marker template, ensuring no AbuseFilter affects the bot, and flagging ArchiverBot as a bot. Please see User_talk:Whym/Archive_1#ArchiverBot_on_es.wikiversity where I expanded on what I mean by these. whym (talk) 08:18, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. I have started a discussion at species:Village Pump#‎Auto-archiving bot for talk pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:09, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Wiktionary

Hello. The interwiki links on Wiktionaries are now automatically managed by Cognate, so it does not need to add IW links with Whymbot. Please disable you bot on this task. And then we can remove those links. --Octahedron80 (talk) 03:26, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Interface editor

Would you please ask for global interface editor rights at Steward requests/Global permissions to handle some of phabricator:T164242#3230381? I understand you may not have much time for this, but even fixing just a handful wikis would be a big win. :) --Nemo 08:21, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

@Nemo bis: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll be mostly absent for a few more days, so let me think about it. I agree it might take a lot of man power. Perhaps we can send a message to affected wikis inviting them to check phab:T164242 and to try fixing by themselves (and to ask for help if unsure). It might be a good idea to add a clear guide on how to fix it with examples to the phab task (or maybe a wiki page). Also, based on his contributions on en.wikipedia, it would be fantastic if TheDJ can help with this by becoming a global interface editor. --whym (talk) 11:28, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

I think TheDJ is busy enough with the English Wikipedia alone, given the amount of users and scripts there. :D I sent a message to talk pages earlier and I plan to take care at least of the simpler gadget changes (see global editinterface flag request). Your help would still be very much needed. Nemo 11:51, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Bot on nl.wikinews

Hello is it possible to run the archive bot on nl.wikinews.org for this page ? Thank you! Livenws (talk) 15:13, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Bot on ur.wikipedia

Shalom,

Can you run your archiver bot on urdu wikipedia for User talk page archives? — Bukhari (Talk!) 12:26, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Help request for synonym labeling

@Whym: As you know, we are building a model to be able to do article section alignment across Wikipedia languages. I'm wondering if you can help us with a labeling task that will define the ground truth for a synonym detection algorithm. (Please be aware that clicking on the next two links will take you to a Google spreadsheet) The task and the instructions, in case you'd like to look into it. Also, if you have recommendations for who else can help us for Japanese labels, please suggest names in the Usernames sheet or to me. I'd appreciate if you let me know if this is something you can help us with, and as always, please don't feel pressured by the request. Only if you have time for it and can. Thanks either way! :) --LZia (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey Whym, do you plan to work on that task? If not I'll ask other people for help. :) Trizek (WMF) (talk) 10:10, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

@Trizek (WMF): I meant to do, but got distracted - I have just started working on it. One minor thing - could the rows be colored for better recognizability? I have a feeling that if odd rows are white and even rows are light-grey or something, it might help labellers. whym (talk) 11:27, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

User:Ymatsubara

Hi Whym, have you retired the use of the account Ymatsubara permanently? (Cleaning up the "researchers" group on enwiki). — xaosflux ^Talk 21:40, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: You are right. I don't plan to get it unlocked in near future. whym (talk) 12:14, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

WHOIS gateway returning 500 internal server error

Over the last several days toolforge:whois has been returning a blank response or a 500. Could you take a look? Thanks, — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:25, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: The web service had been down for some reason. I restarted it and it should be working again now. whym (talk) 03:41, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Tool commons-app-stats doesn't work

Hello Whym, as reported on https://github.com/whym/commons-app-stats/issues/13 (also see https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/3078), the commons-app-stats tool doesn't work. I would like to help with this issue, and for that, I would like to request maintainer permission on this tool (my Toolforge username is "urbanecm"). Please treat this message as a notification sent in accordance with Abandoned tool policy <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Abandoned_tool_policy>, should you not reply to this message within 14 days. Best regards, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 09:43, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Whois tool

Hi Whym,

It seems your Whois stopped working a few days ago. It only gives a 504 Gateway Time-out right now on every request you give it. Could you please take a look when you have time? --Wiki13 (talk) 13:58, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Fixed! whym (talk) 12:29, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar (archived)

Wikidoop Barnstar

I award you the Wikidoop Barnstar for your tireless work on getting Hadoop and the Wikimedia XML files to live peacefully together. Drdee 13:46, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Correspondence

Hi Whym! I'm writing you because I need to know your email address for future correspondence. I wish you well!

You can mail me @ vpadilla-ctr@wikimedia.org. Thank you!

--Glrdungan (talk) 01:51, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

@VPadilla (WMF): Was that your alternative account? In any case, Special:EmailUser/Whym should work for that purpose. whym (talk) 06:51, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Enforcement_guidelines/Voting

Hello, I saw from past results that ja.wiki had a very low turnout. That's not unusual for ja.wiki, but are you aware of any effort to increase awareness about the vote and its relevance? Nemo 07:59, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Speaking about myself, to be honest, I don't know if I noticed the second voting if not for your message. (Although it's possible that I closed a banner or two without thinking, or thinking that it was about the first voting.) I have checked emails, and apparently I did receive two notifications about it.

The page to which those notifications were sent to was split in September-October 2022 - the main inbox page now only accepts local messages. I imagine it might have reduced visibility of global messages (because not all would have noticed the split), but I don't know how I can verify. We have separate pageview counts for local and global after the split,[1] but I don't know what to compare. whym (talk) 11:59, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

申請書を直しました

@Whymさん、先日は利用者グループ設立のための申請書に関して、アドバイスをありがとうございました。ご意見を参考に、新しく予算を立て直しました。また何かありましたらご指摘のほどよろしくお願い申しあげます。Rapid Fund Kizhiya (talk) 18:52, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Applying ArchiverBot

(Moved from viwiki talk page) Hi, can you please run your ArchiverBot at viwiki? I have already:

• added a new config template at vi:w:Thành viên:NgocAnMaster/ArchiverBot/config;
• translated the docs (at mw:Manual:Pywikibot/archivebot.py/setup/vi).

Since the ArchiverBot is not available on viwiki yet, you need to:

• log in with the bot account on viwiki.
• test it first at vi:w:Thảo luận Thành viên:NgocAnMaster/Bản tin (I have already got the template transcluded, you might want to change parameters for testing).
• if AbuseFilter here prevents you from editing, ask Plantaest (or other viwiki administrators here) to add an exception for this bot.
• once the test is OK, request it here.

Thank you. (Also tagging Tryvix1509 for interest.) NgocAnMaster (talk) 05:38, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Has there been any local discussion about it already? whym (talk) 08:42, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Well, we haven't started the discussion yet, but if the test is OK I'll start that. I've started one here. Thanks for asking. NgocAnMaster (talk) 14:47, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Okay, the discussion looks good. I'm making another change to the bot (phab:T319568), and I'm planning to do this next. whym (talk) 14:08, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Got it. The discussion is now still open for 7 days. If it looks good, you can go ahead and test the bot. NgocAnMaster (talk) 14:20, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

We have reached the consensus to deploy ArchiverBot for viwiki here. When you have done your work, let me know and we can deploy the bot then. Thanks! NgocAnMaster (talk) 11:29, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi, are you ready to test ArchiverBot on viwiki now? I noticed that phab:T319568 has been resolved. NgocAnMaster (talk) 10:34, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Test done - the bot made two edits. [2][3] whym (talk) 12:56, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

OK thanks. You may continue testing the bot for now, and then make a new bot request. Anster (talk) 13:23, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

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Well, your bot works good on my page (see w:vi:Special:PageHistory/Thảo luận Thành viên:NgocAnMaster/Bản tin and w:vi:Special:Contributions/ArchiverBot), just a matter of the CAPTCHA (as I see in your log, some archiving actions has been blocked due to CAPTCHA, since ArchiverBot is yet autoconfirmed on viwiki). Later on, I'll expand the archiving test range (means that I'll test your bot on more pages), so keep the bot running! I think with the community consensus, you may open a bot request here. I'll help you with that then. Thanks! Anster (talk) 03:36, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Yes, with CAPTCHA, it looks like I need to start the bot manually for now. I might need some more time to read the documentation to see what's expected there before creating a bot request. I have never done that in a language I don't speak. In the meantime, if you want to/are allowed to do that for me, I'm happy to co-sign. whym (talk) 08:31, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I know your difficulties in understanding languages other than your spoken languages, so I've open a bot request at w:vi:Wikipedia:Bot/Yêu cầu cấp quyền#Cấp quyền cho ArchiverBot for you. And yes, I'm willing to allow you to assist me in running ArchiverBot in viwiki. Thank you for your help. Anster (talk) 14:45, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

whois.toolforge.org down

FYI, I get a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to access https://whois.toolforge.org (which you appear to run). Best, —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying. I have no idea what was the underlying issue, but a manual restart seemed to work similar to [4]. whym (talk) 09:24, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Awesome, thank you! —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:16, 22 March 2024 (UTC)