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Hi Amalthea, AWESOME name btw, Anyway, i wanted 2 know y my page Qetsiyah was deleted. It's just a friendly question, no need 2 block me :) lol — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyler Summers ( talk • contribs) 20:45, 1 January 2014 (UTC) TS ( talk) 20:48, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Um, i don't currently have any. But thanks, LOVE THE NAME :D TS ( talk) 11:11, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for indenting my duplicate Support. I have absolutely no excuse for this error. Respectfully, Tiyang ( talk) 09:35, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
This is clearly a sockpuppet of banned user Associate Affiliate - the edits are exactly what that user worked on before the ban. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spoortwee ( talk • contribs) 22:29, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Amalthea! Thanks for maintaining the Admin highlighter list on en.wiki. I tried to maintain one on Commons but the url which used to generate the JSON list ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/?title=Special:ListUsers&limit=5000&group=sysop&huntsterupdate=y) no longer works. What do you use to generate the list at User:Amalthea (bot)/userhighlighter.js/sysop.js these days? — Huntster ( t @ c) 08:21, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Amalthea, would go to this file and make a comment. Thanks: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lonnie Stabler Billy Hathorn (talk) 22:28, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could take a look at 2 new ones I suspect of being socks. The 2nd one is Clueingforlooks with is just the same as a previous socks name Cluingforsocks just with an "e" added to the name. LADY LOTUS • TALK 13:43, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Is there a reason you raised Template:Welcome from template protection to full protection? Jackmcbarn ( talk) 19:47, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Amalthea. I noticed that your bot has not performed its tally of the CCI cases for a couple of days and I was wondering if you could have a look and see why not. Thanks, -- Diannaa ( talk) 13:51, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I was advised by AGK to bring this information to a community member with checkuser privileges. The disruption has quieted down, but something about the editing pattern (multiple IPs used over a long period) seems very odd. The person is obviously an experienced user who is not shy about controversy. I didn't bring this to SPI because I have no idea who it might be or why they have chosen to edit this way. Ignocrates ( talk) 20:09, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
In June 2010, at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Jagged 85/Archive you said to reopen the SPI if further IPs or accounts were suspected. There is a discussion at ANI where four IPs are listed, and there is a little more at the Jagged RfC. Is it worth listing the IPs with some evidence at SPI? Jagged 85 is now banned and has not edited since September 2012, and SPI is generally for accounts, so I was wondering whether there would be any point in me reopening the case. Sorry to bother you, but my concern is that if a case were raised and quickly dismissed, an onlooker might get the message that they were untouchable, and those handling the edits would be further depressed. Johnuniq ( talk) 04:36, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
Can you please comment here: Wikipedia_talk:Twinkle#Twinkle_stopped_loading -- NeilN talk to me 21:51, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello. You're a past editor in the Garbage articles, would you mind giving your input on the latest discussion? Talk:Garbage_(band)#Genres. -- Lpdte77 ( talk) 01:47, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Please see WP:RFUP, where there is a request to undo the salting of certain edit notices. The user observes that account creators and template editors should have the ability to create these. I may not follow the logic completely, but since you are the salting admin, your opinion would be helpful. Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 17:37, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
editinterface
. There also appears to be no reason to only unsalt the listed ones while keeping existing namespace editnotices like
Template:Editnotices/Namespace/Template fully protected.
Amalthea
08:53, 10 July 2014 (UTC)Amaltea guten Abend, wie geht es Ihnen? Ich hoffe gut. Ich habe eine wichtige Frage. Sie Checkuser, können Sie entdecken auch die IP statistischen?? Danke. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.152.52.163 ( talk) 19:09, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
I miss it. Did I miss a change? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:42, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
NintendoFan ( Talk, Contribs) 10:49, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello Amalthea, I was reviewing currently approved bots with unusual flags, an noticed yours has the rollbacker flag. Which bot task requires this permission? Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 02:00, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello there,I'm that user who's been the victim of editing the Fields Medal page(i.e.I got blocked with charge of Vandalism.).I've got three question:1)When the current protected status of that page ends,Does the page current contents remain in place or they are replaced with the old version? 2)I've prepared a new and somehow comprehensive table about Fields medalists.I posted this table on the discussion section of the Fields Medal page,and I request for comments about this(If You come there and see my that table I will be really glad,and don't forget to put your comment about it down there!;-)),but so far,just one person did so.Is it normal? 3)Should I submit a request for edit to replace the new table with current one?Or should I wait for reaching a consensus?Thank You. Rezameyqani (talk) 07:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC) Rezameyqani ( talk) 08:19, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Hi I may be completely wrong but this page
seems to me to be
a) a blatent advert and b) may be repetition of a previously deleted page since you deleted the talk page
It was (re?)created a few days after the previous page was removed, probably for the same concerns.
All of the links and x-refs are basically Google fodder for the company's own products. I would prefer if this kind of thing was deleted.
I was going to tag it as spam with this on the talk page them saw you had deleted the previous talk page as it was linked to a non-existent page
What to do?
Tumbles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tumbledown ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi. It appears that your bot has stopped updating the SPI overview page ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview). The last update was 10 hours ago ( this edit). — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:06, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
Stopped again. :-( — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:56, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
It looks like the SPI bot is down again. Could you take a look? Thanks! Mike V • Talk 22:04, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Since you were the last person to edit this template (in 2009!): There have been a number of requests in the last five years for changes to the template – adding language that "disambiguation pages are not articles", adding the info symbol, adding a background color for visibility, and adding a link to WP:DDD. The talk page is very sparsely visited, so consensus is hard to come by, but there's been no dissent. I think it would be appropriate to WP:BOLDly make those changes. Could you do that? — Swpb talk 16:58, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Amalthea. The CCI stats at User:Amalthea/CCI/Overview are failing to update, though the bot seems to be active and doing its other tasks. If you could give it a poke I would appreciate it. Thanks, -- Diannaa ( talk) 20:55, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for reviewing in the
Contributor copyright investigations/PumpkinSky! Paraphrasing (I hope not too closely): If everybody who read this looked at one more article it could be over today. - repeating: you are an
awesome Wikipedian (5 May 2009)!
Three years ago, you were the 36th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:04, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm re-creating article Hare Kanch Ki Chooriyan (1967) with new content. Letting you know since you had deleted Hare Kanch Ki Chooriyan on 30 August 2012 for copy vio. ( G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement). I don't know what was in that article, but will avoid copyright. Thanks. Kaayay ( talk) 10:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Any chance of a sync? — This, that and the other (talk) 06:17, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Amalthea, I hope you are well, and that your relative inactivity here means good things are happening for you! Would you please be able to take a moment to sync Twinkle? In particular, there's a new format change at RPP which would be nice to be on top of. Thanks, — This, that and the other (talk) 12:58, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Doesn't appear to be updating the SPI cases at the moment. Can you take a look? Thanks. Abecedare ( talk) 01:03, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hey there! I authored the recently deployed Block module for admins. I'm writing you today to understand the versioning system you are using. Looking at the page histories, it looks like the format is vX.X-XXX-SHA: commit message. I know we're on version 2.0 but where is the minor version number being tracked? Is that stored somewhere on your local machine when you run the sync script? Thanks! — MusikAnimal talk 01:16, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Amalthea. I've been using your sysop highlighting script, see my page here. Very useful! But suddenly it's not working anymore. Did something happen? Note, please speak to me in words of one syllable about "scripts", they're a closed book to me. Thank you. P. S., I see Amalthea hasn't edited in over a month. Any helpful talkpage stalkers out there? Bishonen | talk 11:23, 14 May 2015 (UTC).
The bot seems to have deleted a lot of admins in this edit. Could you take a look? Thanks! L235 ( t / c / ping in reply) 02:20, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Amalthea – since edit notices are now all template protected by MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, I wonder if you could unprotect Template:Editnotices/Namespace/Category, which you fully protected back in May 2011? I would be deeply grateful if you could! Thank you in advance for your consideration in this! – Paine 20:31, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
editinterface
since they are as sensitive as anything in the MediaWiki-namespace, incorrect edits there have the ability to disrupt all pages in the namespace.I'd appreciate it if you tool a look at this, and participate, if possible. All Rows4 ( talk) 09:14, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hope all is well with you and that you are frolicking in happy pastures. :D I have tried to contextualize the decision to unblock Billy as I understood it with [2]. I should have linked you to it immediately given your low activity since I cannot count on "ping" to alert you, but that rather obvious thought didn't occur to me until around 3:00 a.m. If I have mischaracterized any part of it, please correct me! -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:32, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton ( talk) and MusikAnimal talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Amalthea, it doesn't look like you're on-wiki much these days, but in case you watch more than you edit, I'll report the problem with Amalthea (bot) anyway. For some time now, the bot has not been behaving properly. The most common problem is when a case is archived, the bot puts it in open status and at the top of the list where it doesn't belong. There have been some kludgy "fixes" tried, e.g., making a null edit to the case, purging the case, and purging the list. Sometimes that worked. Sometimes it didn't. Sometimes it worked and the case went off the list and then popped back in. Another weird thing I just noticed today is a case I merged with another case, completed that case, closed it, and a clerk archived it. Now the case with the original name before the merge is in the endorsed category.
I love that table and rely on it. I know it's not always 100% up-to-date, and that's fine because it catches up fairly quickly, but this is driving me a bit nuts.
Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:14, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
← @ Bbb23: Ok, I just clicked through some old revisions of the page and it seems like rv 688447817 shows the behavior you were talking about: The Scibaby case is shown as open at the very top of the page.
For any case to be listed in the table it needs to be categorized in Category:Open SPI cases, so Scibaby must have been in that category at that time. If you look at the page source of that revision of the table, the case status is shown as "unknown". The case status is determined by the bot looking at the page source of the case page and finding the parameter of the {{ SPI case status}} template. Since the template wasn't found on that revision of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Scibaby we ended up with status 'unknown'.
So at the core this looks like a MediaWiki problem: If categorization breaks down, this bot will behave incorrectly.
Since it seems this has been resolved and everything is back to normal I don't think I need to work around this issue. Instead I would recommend three things:
Amalthea 14:04, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Since the problem persists I've now changed the templates so that an 'unknown' status is shown as such. I don't think I need to start working around incorrect categorization since it's now properly displayed, it's known how to workaround it via a null edit, and someone at VPT has reported the categorization bug to the devs. Amalthea 12:37, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
(copied from User talk:Vanjagenije) The bot sometimes crawls reports that have been archived but for which the categories applied by the case-template haven't been removed yet due to MediaWiki lag -- and when the bot does not find a case template, it reports the status as "unknown" in the case list. The problem thus far is that this "unknown" status caused the cases in question to appear at the top of the case list, and "as if" they has an "open" status, because the caselist templates displayed cases under an "open" status as default when no other existing status matches. All I'd need to do (and that has been done) is to add a display option for cases reported by the bot as "unknown" so that they display as "unknown" and don't default to "open" because they don't match any documented status. As I've proposed, I don't think "unknown" is the best status to report these as and will see with Amalthea if she could tweak how the bot reports these cases in the caselist, so I can then adjust the caselist templates to display these reports how we want them. Basically, this special status caused by cases still being categorized (thus crawled by the bot) but which have been archived (thus no casetemplate) would only be something that would be reported by the bot to the caselist template and then displayed there in a non-confusing way until MediaWiki lag catches up and these stop being reported. It would not really be an "actual" case status (which would be illogical since the very existence of this would be because there is no longer a casetemplate). ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 3:35 pm, Today (UTC−5)
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01:54, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
In 2012, you fully-protected this page.
Please consider reducing the protection to pending-changes or semi-protection (or both) and putting an expiration date on it (I suggest 1 year - if there is no attempted abuse during that time then let it expire). davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 19:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
Greetings, back in 2011 you fully protected this template for being highly visible, but as it is it has only under 1000 transclusions. I believe than in such cases template protection or semi protection is more common. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 16:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
You may be interested in the discussion at Template talk:Short pages monitor#Need to define and possibly rethink this template. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 23:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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Greetings. Is there any chance that User:Amalthea (bot) could maintain a page containing a single value which is the number of RfAs currently open? We could transclude this on MediaWiki:Watchlist-details for the watchlist notice, which would obviate the need for manual updates. Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 22:20, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
← For manual watchlist notices you would then need to check back which cookie ID was last used for the RFA notice ... but I could use a separate range of numbers, e.g. cookie IDs in [10000,11000[.
However, for the bot to decide when to increment the cookie ID someone needs to formalize the rules first. Imagine this scenario:
When is a new cookie ID used? Does it depend on how long the "a while"s are?
I'm thinking maybe something like "an RfA is newly live for at least 5 hours, and that same RfA hasn't already gotten a cookie ID during the last 3 days" might work.
Amalthea
00:49, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
Any progress on this? Thanks — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 20:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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I think there may be a slight problem with User:Amalthea (bot). With this edit, the bot removed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HankMoodyTZ from the list of open SPI cases, despite the fact that the case is still open and still has a pending CU request. Could you look into this please? Thanks in advance. Sir Sputnik ( talk) 21:27, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
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"Not helpful" are some pretty strong words. Perhaps you could teach me what you mean by "deployed onsite" rather than dismissing me for trying to fix a problem the only way I know how. Thanks. – void xor 19:03, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
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How are you? i am new user here. can you please guide me about this website?
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Hi! The Amalthea (bot) is malfunctioning when the title of the page contains a "=" sign. Bot updated the SPI list ( diff), but the case displays as a red link titled "endorsed" on the list. I tried to fix it manually ( diff), but the bot immediately reverted me ( diff). Vanjagenije (talk) 09:24, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Do you know how to use the script cat-a-lot and enable the gadget on this wikipeida. (english). Saadkhan12345 ( talk) 22:55, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
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Hello,
The talkback template has recently become broken due to recent edits. The Template has been protected to prevent anyone except admins and template editors from editing it. I was wondering if you could take a look at it. As im sure you are aware, the template has fields for user and section. The template is currently configured to display those fields as:
Hello, Lammarck. You have new messages at [[User talk:Dillard421#Martial Law in the Philippines[edit]|Dillard421's talk page]].
No wiki tags added so you can see how it renders. Im contacting you because you have edited it before. Thanks Dillard 421♂♂ ( talk to me) 04:58, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Amalthea. Regarding User:Amalthea_(bot)/userhighlighter.js/sysop.js, what do you use to keep this updated? I'd like to have a similar highlight list for Commons...I've been using Ais523's old admin highlighter, but this no longer outputs a formatted list I can use. Any suggestions on how to move forward? — Huntster ( t @ c) 00:56, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
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April 13, 2017
Amalthea, I was blocked by Wikipedia in 2011 for alleged copyright violations: following copyrighted text too closely though with attribution of the source in the reference link. You unblocked me on April 27, 2013.
Then I was banned on November 16, 2015 for the same reasons based on two articles, Timothy Dwight Hobart and Susan Pamerleau.
In the former, my article was gutted to a single introductory paragraph on the claim that I had followed text too closely from a copyrighted source, The Handbook of Texas On-line, though I had scrambled the material. The WP article was expanded and recently published by West Texas Historical Review." The Hobart article is titled:
Land, Cattle, and Settlement: Timothy Dwight Hobart and the Shaping of the Texas Panhandle, 1855-1935 Authors Billy Hathorn Publication date 2016 Journal The West Texas Historical Review Volume 92 Issue 2016 Pages 78-93 Publisher West Texas Historical Association in Lubbock
The Sheriff Pamerleau article had some information on her background that I was given permission by email to use. But WP found that I did not have the proper permission verified. I sent in a copy of the permission. That article is still on the board but altered somewhat from the way I submitted it.
The people on WP pushing for my ban would not consider the view that following copyrighted material too closely but with attribution is NOT plagiarism.
Would you consider reinstating me as you did four years ago? I have been banned for nearly seventeen months, long enough for violations of this kind, it seems to me. I understand that I shouldn't "follow too closely" and will never do so again.
Thanks, Billy Hathorn 75.35.181.75 ( talk) 02:33, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Amalthea, Wikipedia made a change on the underlying script loading proceedure and it's affecting your userhighlighter.js script. You may want to pop over to The village pump for a report on that particular script Ҝ Ø Ƽ Ħ 13:21, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
I blanked User:Amalthea/MakeAutopatroller.js for now. It's not up to date with the coding standards, and still relied on sajax even.. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 16:32, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
Just a quick head's up, the bot seems to have tripped up this afternoon] (Anarchyte's RfA is still live) and consequently the RfA notice has disappeared from the watchlist. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:07, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Greetings. I've been tracking Billy Hathorn's IP addresses for a few months. The most recent one is /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/67.45.96.9 -- could you block it and also do some kind of a range block? Sorry if I am being rude. 92.30.178.11 ( talk) 11:06, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
i have reported my findings at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Billy_Hathorn -- what do you think of my findings? 92.30.178.11 ( talk) 12:14, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Amalthea. I didn't realize you had previously blocked/unblocked this editor for WP:NOTBROKEN when I asked for advice at User talk:Yunshui#Need some advice. Perhaps you can offer a suggestion on how to best deal with this matter by commenting in that particular thread since they seem to be still "fixing" these redirects as before. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 17:45, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, you recently posted on my talk page "I have given you access to IP block exemption. This will allow you to edit through a full block affecting your IP address, such as the block you asked about, when you are logged in." - are you able to remind me what page I asked about please? Thanks Ride the Hurricane ( talk) 21:21, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Seven years? Blimey, so it was! I received a notification and assumed that's what it was for. No idea what that recent talk edit was - a bot tidying up policy references maybe? Thanks. Ride the Hurricane ( talk) 01:23, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
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There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.
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Hi Amalthea, it appears to me that the list is not updating. The last time the bot ran was about eight hours ago.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 14:06, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:14, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
Am I right that you cared if Main page history was written? Not today, afaik. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:49, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
But now it was ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:01, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Is your intent to never have
User:Amalthea/RfX/Overview show the RfA report? The bot hardcodes the notes
parameter for
User:Amalthea/RfX/Overview/entry to empty, so the report is never displayed by
User:Amalthea/RfX/Overview/entry/core, even when no errors are reported. As best I can tell, it's been that way ever since the
notes section was added. Displaying the report link would be useful! ~ Amory (
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15:28, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:MOS:SCROLL. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:MOS:SCROLL redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 21:49, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
(non-admin observing and throwing some ideas out there): When multiple non-archived cases for the same (suspected or proven) sockmaster exist, the 'Cases currently listed at SPI' table will reflect the status of the first non-archived case regardless of the status of any subsequent cases, in some cases making it seem as though cases that still need admin, clerk or CU attention are closed or CU completed. Would it be possible for the bot to, rather than look for the first occurrence of the SPI Case Status template, look for these in some order of priority? E.g. if there's a SPI Case Status template set to CU Request anywhere on the page, this would overrule the presence of that SPI Case Status 'closed' or 'CU completed' template elsewhere on the page, etc. AddWittyNameHere ( talk) 08:08, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Bot has not edited Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview about 6 hours Hhkohh ( talk) 14:53, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
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... is missing today, or did I make a typing mistake? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:20, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Amalthea,
Sometime pretty recently the script stopped working for me, i.e., I don't get a clickable timestamp. TonyBallioni says it's working for him. Any ideas what to do? Thanks.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 20:47, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Recently, User:cyberbot I was blocked because it is malfunctioning. As a result, can I suggest that you replace the contents of User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report (Cyberpower678 is offline) with User:Amalthea/RfX/Overview so that the report is still updated? -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:51, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
It seems that your bot have not edited about 12 hours Hhkohh ( talk) 17:58, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Main Page history/2019 February 12 is red right now. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 18:22, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
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Seven years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:01, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Why ful protection if:
83.31.85.72 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:00, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
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The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.
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ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
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Ten years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:31, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Amalthea, the bot hasn't updated the SPI page in almost 12 hours.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 17:35, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, Amalthea. Any chance your bot could be modified to save the Main Page twice a day when User:DYKUpdateBot/Time Between Updates is 43200 and go back to once a day when it is 86400. I understand it is more complicated than that, but I was wondering if you had considered it. --- Coffeeand crumbs 11:08, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Template:NAMESPACEID has been
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the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
* Pppery *
it has begun...
19:11, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
Amalthea (bot) hasn't edited in about 24 hours. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 11:29, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello,
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I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
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-- User:Martin Urbanec ( talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi Amalthea, I am just wondering the frequency at which this task runs/updates? Thanks! -- TheSandDoctor Talk 19:58, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, the table hasn't updated since about 12:50 today (it was a bit erratic before then). Thanks for looking into it.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 18:14, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
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You created Category:Pufc cleanup future and Category:Pufc cleanup unnamed. The latter was populated by {{ Pufc}}, but that was deleted in 2016 because WP:PUF is no longer active. Any idea if these categories are still used? -- Pascal 666 23:49, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone has come and talked to you about this, but I found what is breaking your script for me. I tried it on vector & timeless and chrome and firefox. The issue seems to be with this line:
var paraCusearch = mw.util.getParamValue('cuSearch');
When replaced with:
var paraCusearch = !paraCuloghighlight;
It works perfectly. I don't know enough about js to diagnose it, but that's where it's breaking. --
Amanda
(aka DQ)
22:13, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I saw that years ago you created a graph for the progress of reducing the backlog at CAT:NN - is there any chance you could resurrect this? I'm trying to build up interest in reducing the backlog. Thnaks, Boleyn ( talk) 09:51, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
FYI, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview has no edits from User:Amalthea (bot) since 07:10, July 17, 2020. Best, -- Mdaniels5757 ( talk) 17:02, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Oops. Thanks, I've started it up again. Physical server move had an effect that I didn't notice until now. Amalthea 10:02, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
... archive the main page twice a day when User:DYKUpdateBot/Time Between Updates is 43200 and go back to once a day when it is 86400. I mentioned this before and you suggested I bring it up for wider discussion. I did that and I believe there is consensus that it is a good idea. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 20:16, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Template:Being worked on has been
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Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
12:18, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
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Eight years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:16, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
As I just notice per yesterday's Main page history link still red, Wikipedia:Main Page history has not been written after 16 July. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:20, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Now some in the meantime were written but a few still missing. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:26, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Today's is missing, DYK? Red link on top of my talk, looks pretty but doesn't help memory. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:41, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
Same, and probably also in between. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:58, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Thought I let you that the CCI overview at User:Amalthea/CCI/Overview hasn't been updated since the 16th. I see that the SPI overview has returned to updating as today, so I was wondering if the CCI would be continuing updates as well soon. Thanks! -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 00:46, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, it looks like Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview hasn't been updated since 02:50, 16 October 2020, and the bot hasn't also edited since then either. Could you re-start the task? Thanks, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 10:55, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
No action on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview in 30+ hours. Cabayi ( talk) 12:29, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey Amalthea, it looks like you've got some user scripts in use by others that have bare javascript global wg-style variables. These are
phab:T72470 deprecated, and while I don't think there's a timeline for their removal, it's been that way for a while. It's usually a straightforward fix, all uses need to use mw.config.get
, such as converting wgTitle
to mw.config.get('wgTitle')
. There's some more info at
mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)#Global wg variables. I can take care of cleaning them up for you if you like, or give you a full list if you want to handle it, just let me know! ~ Amory (
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It looks like the SPI bot broke again FF-11 ( talk) 09:41, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
Hello. One of the newly added cases broke the CCI table (due to the large amount of the case). Please see the Ruigeroeland entry at User:Amalthea/CCI/Overview. Thanks! -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 18:40, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Amalthea. The bot updating Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview is unfortunately down again. Mz7 ( talk) 19:18, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
The CCI bot hasn't counted cases in over a month. MER-C 08:36, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
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Nine years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:18, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
I just noticed that the not didn't make Wikipedia:Main Page history/2021 September 26, and the first missing was 25b. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:57, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Template:FULLROOTPAGENAMEE has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Tom (LT) (
talk)
00:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC)