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Tech News: 2018-30

09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018

  • From the editor: If only if
    Ships and shoes – and if you don't like it here, just go away!

Proposed deletion of Stefan Schaal

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Tech News: 2018-32

19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

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...

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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.

New things

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

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InceptionBot

Hi there:

I am Wikimycota, an active editor in Chinese Wikipedia (zh-wiki). I currently maintain portal:fungi (and once portal:biology as well) in zh-wiki. One of the jobs we've been doing is to go through the long list of new pages daily to look for relevant articles for these portals. I just noticed that in en-wiki, this can be achieved by your bot pretty accurately. Is it possible for us to use your bot in zh-wiki? If so, I could create a bot account in zh-wiki, which could potentially run your code (with the "rules" for each portal set in Chinese) after approved by the local community. I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you in advance.--Wikimycota (talk) 09:19, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

@靖天子: I am not interested in adapting InceptionBot for other wikis. The program code is available on GitHub. --Bamyers99 (talk) 12:38, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Pacific spiny lumpsucker

Thanks for reverting my edits at Pacific spiny lumpsucker, I forgot that the page I had in my userspace was linked because it was moved. Embarrassing! :) †Basilosauridae❯❯❯Talk 20:48, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2018

  • Special report: Wikimania 2018
    "Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward".

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12

Newsletter • August 2018

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Recurring errors on jazz cleanup listing

The Cleanup Listing for Wikiproject Jazz has articles that continue to show up on the list, but I can't find the errors after spending hours, days, weeks, who knows, going over the page, making change after change to try to fix the problems. It's Time (Michael Bublé album) is said to have a "Web citation with no URL" but I can't find that error. Billy Cobham and The Jazz Messengers are listed under "Citation with format and no URL". I've never found those errors. In fact, the Cobham and Jazz Messengers articles are always on the list with problems I can't find. Do you have any ideas about this?
Vmavanti (talk) 03:12, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

The "no URL" error in It's Time (Michael Bublé album) is in this citation: ""IFPI Middle East Awards – 2008". IFPI Middle East." The red format errors were fixed by using |medium=, as explained in the documentation for {{cite AV media}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:51, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
@Vmavanti: The listings are generated from hidden categories in articles. These categories are included by maintenance templates or by normal templates that detect errors in their parameters. To turn on hidden category display at the bottom of each article, go to Preferences -> Appearance -> Advanced options -> Show hidden categories. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:03, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
OK. Thanks. Thanks also to Jonesey95 for finding the errors. They seem obvious now.
Vmavanti (talk)

Tech News: 2018-37

22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

21:57, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Jazz cleanup listing

Does the Wikiproject Jazz Cleanup Listing usually get released today? I haven't seen the new one.
Vmavanti (talk) 13:54, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Cleanup listing errors

I added coordinates to several of the articles which continue to be listed on the Cleanup Listing under "Coordinates Needed". Similarly, I added the title to an article which continues to be listed under "citations without title." What happened? Did I do something wrong? These fixes don't seem to be acknowledged.
Vmavanti (talk) 18:04, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

@Vmavanti: The Sept. 11 run failed while processing projects that start with the letter L. I did not notice the failure at that time. When the Sept. 18 run started it finished the rest of the projects and did not process any others. I reran the listings for all projects today, however they are as of early Sept 18, meaning it did not process any article changes made after early Sept. 18. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:12, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Tree of Life

I tried entering WikiProject Tree of Life at the CleanupWorklistBot Category Test, but it says "not found." --Nessie (talk) 16:43, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@NessieVL: I have added it to the configuration page. It required a category override because the category name is different from the WikiProject name, taxonomic instead of Tree of Life. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:18, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

  • In the media: Knowledge under fire
    Can Wikipedians help save the world's knowledge and shine a light on current events?

Tech News: 2018-40

17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Errors on jazz Cleanup Listing

Today's cleanup listing says that four articles need coordinates, but those articles already have coordinates: Lakeside Jazz Festival, Mellon Jazz Festival, Montreux Music & Convention Centre, Montreux Music & Convention Centre. It also lists "Sugar Plum (jazz song)", although that article was deleted last week. I haven't checked for any more errors.

Is the Cleanup Listing broken?
Vmavanti (talk) 23:36, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@Vmavanti: Note the headings that those articles are listed under: "Changes since last update" -> "Resolved articles". --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:47, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

InceptionBot missed my article

InceptionBot didn't log my new article on Prunus carduchorum to User:InceptionBot/NewPageSearch/Plants/log and User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult but it did add it to other pages such as User:AlexNewArtBot/KurdistanSearchResult. Is this unusual behavior for the bot? Abductive (reasoning) 17:05, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

@Abductive: I have fixed the rules to match categories that begin with flora and plant. The article now scores above the threshold. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:27, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
Cool, glad to be of assistance. Abductive (reasoning) 17:31, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
@Abductive: InceptionBot missing new articles on organisms is going to be an ongoing issue as articles are increasingly written using {{Speciesbox}} or {{Automatic taxobox}}. There are several strings in a typical manual taxobox for a plant that generate score for InceptionBot; "plant", "angiosperm", "aceae". Some of these strings may not appear in an article at all if an automatic taxobox is used (I think the main reason Prunus carduchorum got missed was it doesn't mention the family with its "aceae" string).
Bamyers99, would it be a good idea to assign a few points for "speciesbox" and "automatic taxobox"? The obvious drawback is that these strings won't be specific to plants. Maybe it would be better to initiate a new report for articles on all organisms? I'm monitoring 12 organism related new article reports already anyway, and I'm pretty sure most of the people who are monitoring any of the organism reports are monitoring more than one. It might be easier to have a single report under Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life in addition to the existing reports. Plantdrew (talk) 18:53, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
It might also be useful for the bot to check for the keywords in the references. Abductive (reasoning) 18:59, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2018

  • Technology report: Bots galore!
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  • Special report: NPP needs you
    WMF continues to stonewall development; NPP wishes again relegated to stocking fillers.
  • In focus: Alexa
    We are all writing for Amazon.

Tech News: 2018-44

20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)