User talk:Bamyers99/Archive 3

Franz Baumann person data
Hello, On January 12 2016 you edited Franz Bauman and commented "person data no longer needed". Here is the link to the old version  Why did you do it? Thanks --Hans (talk) 08:51, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Persondata has been deprecated by this RfC. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:28, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

InceptionBot
InceptionBot lists newly created articles with their creator, as well as pages moved from a non-main namespace to the main namespace with their mover. The bot should also list redirects that have been turned into non-redirects with the user who turned the redirects into non-redirects, which like the first two cases, are also shown in Special:NewPagesFeed. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 02:52, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Great idea! I have just coded InceptionBot to check the NewPagesFeed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:17, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

CleanupWorklistBot issue
On articles WikiProject Louisville's cleanup list, there's a lot of new reports for "Template call duplicate arguments", but I don't see these problems in the articles. This seems to be a new issue. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:25, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This was caused by an edit made by that created two rowclass92 fields in Infobox settlement. It was fixed nine hours later. CleanupWorklistBot ran before all of the articles that transclude Infobox settlement could get reprocessed and have the "Template call duplicate arguments" (Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls) removed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:54, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. I forgot about that possibility.  Thanks for the response, and have a nice weekend.  Stevie is the man!  Talk • Work 20:51, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Goofed Up Template Title
Sorry about the goof with this edit. I was trying to change the title of the second template on this page (titled "US broadcast network"). The links take me back to the US Topic template. I haven't seen a template set up like this before. Can you help? -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 01:52, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The VTE links should probably be suppressed. If you edit Template:NPR Virginia you will see the "US broadcast network" title near the bottom. --Bamyers99 (talk) 02:06, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I saw that, but wasn't sure how to edit the US Broadcast Network template to change the name to something clearer. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 02:21, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

User:DataflowBot/output/Top 20 enwiki articles by edits and editors in past 7 days (id-1)
Please ensure that your bot won't violate WP:NFCC on this page. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:30, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Gender categories
Thanks, Baymers, for all your recent work sorting out gender categories on biographies, including your corrections to some of those I added by mistake.--Ipigott (talk) 20:36, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Invalid Navbar links
I came by another possible case for Database reports/Invalid Navbar links. Graphical timeline has a  parameter like in. It doesn't produce links on the template page but it does in articles like Evolutionary physiology. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:40, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I came here to request exactly the same thing for the same reason. -- Red rose64 (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I will add it. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:53, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it listed six on the most recent run, and I've fixed all those. -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:34, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

New articles bot
Hi, I was wondering if there is any possibility that the new articles updating could somehow be done without a bot flag, since it's not affecting tons of articles? Like many people I suspect, I've had to turn off bots on my watchlist because KasparBot's transferring of PersonData to Wikidata is making it unreadable - but it's also taking the new articles bot off my page so that I have to remember where to find it to check it. It'd be great if we could still be able to unsee bots on the watchlist but still see these pages. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 09:16, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Removing the bot flag would have other consequences such as InceptionBot not being hidable in recent changes. InceptionBot makes over 500 edits a day. For the two new articles reports that I monitor, I have a link to them on my User page. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:15, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Figured as much but thought I'd ask anyway. Thanks. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 02:48, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

ACA
My profuse thanks. That deletion was inadvertent. Activist (talk) 20:24, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I went back to see if I could figure out what I'd done. It happened with another article as well, but I caught that one after looking at a prior edit that a vandal left. I've been editing for ten years, but it never happened before. Each time it happened, I wiped out many of my own edits along with sections that I wasn't actively working on. Obviously, I need to be a lot more careful. How in the world did you discover it? Thanks! Activist (talk) 23:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I monitor total category removal from articles. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:50, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

WP:DBR/Broken Section Anchors and the most broken targets
Thanks for your recent change to the way broken links are shown, making it easier to target the more recently broken section links, as well as spot where we have lots of new broken sections coming from. Seriously, sorting by section gives a lot of information in this regard. I was wondering how easy it would be to make a list of the articles that are the target of the most broken section links, so we can actually start lowering the record count. Banak (talk) 01:36, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I have added a section grouped by target page. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:55, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that's really helped a lot, as did the splitting into old and new broken section anchors. Banak (talk) 03:17, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

InceptionBot timeframe
Hi! At the request of User:Rosiestep, I've been trying to put together a tool to help WikiProject Women in Red compile their monthly list of newly created articles. Some of the sources they use to put together this list are the AlexNewArtbot pages that InceptionBot maintains, like User:AlexNewArtBot/WomenWritersSearchResult. But I've run into a problem: the MediaWiki API will only return a list of links for the current revision of a page. Because the lists only include the latest ~14 days, it's not easy to reconstruct all the pages that were listed in a longer timeframe.

Would it be possible to add a new configuration option so that instead of 14 days, those pages would keep pages listed for a longer period?--ragesoss (talk) 05:37, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * This would be helpful for our very active WikiProject. And thank you, . --Rosiestep (talk) 14:27, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I think I've found a way to work around it now. Anyhow, thanks for your work with InceptionBot! --ragesoss (talk) 20:41, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I was going to suggest using the MediaWiki API to retrieve multiple revisions for a couple of days in a month. ie. |720440827&rvprop=ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user|content WomeninredSearchResult for May 15 and 31. Then use a regex such as to extract the links. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:20, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I ended up using action=parse, instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&oldid=724380224&prop=links --Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:40, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Removed content from Nikolay Bagrayev
Hello Bamyers99. I'm sorry about not adding any reason of deleting. But it's not a mistake, Mr. Bagraev asked to remove this part of content, as this part was not entirely accurate.Please leave changes that have been made by me. Best wishes) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Famou5trap (talk • contribs) 14:58, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

On the Broken Links of the Establishments in Pakistan Categories
How are the broken links okay? Why don't you create the page first and then add them to where they are? Broken links make the pages look uglier and worse. --96.48.244.69 (talk) 18:41, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Oh sorry! I just re-read what you originally wrote, and I think might have misinterpreted or misunderstood what you originally meant. I thought you said not to remove the red or broken links, which to me, make the page look uglier or more unpleasant to the eye to see. You were actually telling me not to delete the stuff over it, the "This category is for organizations, places, awards and competitions founded or established in Pakistan in the year 1978." Sorry again! My bad. --96.48.244.69 (talk) 19:01, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

I can't see anyway to delete the broken links without also removing the text above. I guess I'll just leave it as it is then. --96.48.244.69 (talk) 19:05, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

I am proposing
changing the name of an article that you were involved with from Vicken von Post-Börjesson to Vicken von Post Totten. Please see its talk page if you are interested in this process. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 03:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Rohit Khattar
Hi there, I see you have also reverted the removal of maintenance templates and such in the Rohit Khattar article. Any thoughts as to what can be done here, the editors are still removing them, as well as reverting to incorrect manual of style and layout. To me, it looks like editors claiming ownership because they will not allow others to fix even the smallest of grammar errors, such as removing the capital letter from words that are not proper nouns. If I shouldn't have asked this here on your talk page, I apologize, it was just that you were the previous editor before my edit was made and I thought you might be able to help. Cmr08 (talk) 09:21, 25 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I have reverted again and left a message on both user talk pages. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:54, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Jobs for CleanupWorklistBot?
Please see my request, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject X. I'm told you may be able to help. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:54, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Bhumihar are not Brahmin
please dont migle two different caste into one entity for info you can see bhumihar page on Wikipedia I hope you understand my reasons — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.37.237.200 (talk • contribs) 17:24, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Bhumihar are not Brahmin
please dont migle two different caste into one entity for info you can see bhumihar page on Wikipedia I hope you understand my reasons — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.37.237.200 (talk • contribs) 17:24, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Template Parameters
Would it be possible to configure Template Parameters so that the currently blacklisted templates show specific pages where Value Counts below some arbitrary value? Looking through the reports for blacklisted templates, I see an enormous number of parameters that are one-off typos for a valid parameter or guesses at parameters that the template can't support. The report for Nihongo has 9 parameters that have Value Counts of 3 or more, and hundreds at 1 or 2. If Value Counts of 1, 5, 10 or even 100 were set to display specific pages linked from black listed templates, it would open up enormous opportunites for cleaning up bad parameters.

If displaying pages for low Value Count parameters isn't easy to achieve, can I request I full report (blacklist override) for Taxobox with the October update? I know I said I'd ask in a couple months at the Signpost article, but I've made more progress through the current report than I thought I would. Plantdrew (talk) 03:25, 30 September 2016 (UTC)


 * I have been analyzing providing page links for invalid parameter names for blacklisted templates. Also for blacklisted templates missing required/suggested parameters. I plan to start coding it today and have it ready for the October run. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:54, 30 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Great. Thank you very much for your work on this. Plantdrew (talk) 16:43, 30 September 2016 (UTC)


 * The October data has been loaded. There is a problem with the Taxobox TemplateData parameter definitions. Either the parameter names or aliases are missing an underscore between the words in the parameter name. That is why the parameter name usages with underscores are showing up as invalid parameters. --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:55, 5 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I noticed it the October data was up earlier and have started working through the items where I needed page links to find the problem parameter. I'm not very worried about the underscore issue at the moment; as far as I'm aware, all the multiple word parameters in Taxobox are functional with either a space or an undersore. I've been replacing spaces with hyphens in the course of fixing other issues, but haven't been targeting them specifically. I don't suppose it would be possible to get the report to treat spaced and underscored parameters is equivalent?


 * I did have to make the page link data generate twice in the space of about 6 hours. I gather that isn't supposed to be necessary more than once a month? Plantdrew (talk) 01:20, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

I loaded the data twice today after fixing a bug in the template extraction code. The TemplateData issue is a problem with the TemplateData parameter definitions, not the actual usage in articles. The parameter names and their aliases are identical. One or the other needs to have an underscore added. The examples and other documentation use the spaced version. If that is the preferred way, then the aliases need the underscore added. If they aren't fixed by next month, then I will fix them. The 'page link data generate' will go much faster if the underscored parameters aren't flagged as invalid.

Issue example: 	"image width": { "label": "Image Width", "description": "Width to display the image at. Should not normally be set. e.g. 320px", "type": "string", "aliases": [ "image width" ],			"required": false }, --Bamyers99 (talk) 01:44, 5 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Underscores were stripped out of the Taxobox documentation in a recent undiscussed change. It wasn't something I'd cared enough to argue out, but underscores are far more frequently used than spaces, and if it's causing problems for the report, it's worth discussing. I'll bring it up at Template talk:Taxobox. Plantdrew (talk) 02:07, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Template parameters update
Hi, many thanks for this great tool. There appears to be a problem with the update though as it does not appear to have updated the missing links by removing those that have been fixed since previous run. Could be because they have been fixed to the alternative option of accessdate rather than access-date under which the missing list appears. You get no entries for the missing for accessdate. Keith D (talk) 19:24, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you tell me which template you are talking about? --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I was looking at NHLE or National Heritage List for England. Keith D (talk) 19:34, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The update is from a Wikipedia data dump that was started sometime on October 1. The 2 articles that I checked were updated on or after October 1, so they were most likely updated after the dump was started. Did you update any articles before October 1 that still show up as missing? --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:02, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * That could be the case as I was expecting 1605 to disappear but that was modified 2 October. Looking further down, Balham station modified on 30 September appears to have disappeared. Sorry to trouble you. Keith D (talk) 20:19, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Eritrea
Hi Bamyers99,

I added the Arabic language to the infobox under: "Recognised national languages" of the article Eritrea. In addition, I added Arabic to the chapter "Languages" in the article. I also added some sources for this information. Then, User:Richard0048 deleted this change with the explanation "HOA not redundant to East Africa, no need to remove content".

It is fact that Arabic is a recognised national language of Eritrea. I don`t know what I should do in this matter. Could you help me or give me an advice? Thank you in advance.

Kind regards,

Balu --Balu12345 (talk) 16:36, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot/PakistanSearchResult
Hi there, the subjected list generates from these rules, but is it possible to create a customized list which generates only the biography pages related to WikiProject Pakistan? --Saqib (talk) 08:52, 16 October 2016 (UTC)


 * It is possible. Why would that be needed when there are so few results for PakistanSearchResult? --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:33, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Actually I need to setup one such list for my own personal use. If possible, can you please create one on my user namespace. --Saqib (talk) 15:49, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

No webservice on Cleanup listing for Wikiproject Jazz
I've been using this helpful tool, but it didn't refresh on Tuesday, and today I'm getting the message "503 Servcie Unavailable. No webservice. The URI you have requested, /bambots/cwb/bycat/Jazz.html, is not currently serviced."


 * Thanks for reporting this. It has been fixed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:45, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Additional dump scan
Hi!

I was wondering, maybe you could do some additional dump scanning? Theoretically it would be a one-time (or two-time) scan for each template in question. For external link templates (like IMDb name) - show articles (with template values), which have malformatted values (yes, we have tracking categories, but with dump scan results we can do effecient work), for some other templates - show articles (params and their values), which contain unknown template params. No public interface is needed - simple txt file. You probably would have to code a little bit, but I think you have the needed codebase. Will give you more specific details, if you say yes to my initial question. I simply don't have the needed resources to do dump scan myself. Yes, theoretically I could do that (or in some cases - scan live template transclusions), but... enwiki is too big and you're anyway doing scanning :) -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 14:33, 13 October 2016 (UTC)


 * The Template Parameter tool already shows "unknown template params". Example for IMDb name.
 * For the "malformatted values", I would rather create a general solution that would be available for any template through the Template Parameter tool. I have come up with a design to implement regex, enumeration and wikidata property validation at User:Bamyers99/TemplateParametersTool. Feel free to add other templates to the Templates section of that page. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:22, 13 October 2016 (UTC)


 * OK, that looks promising. But what I'm personally missing (and the reasons, why was asking for additional scan) or have ideas about:
 * a) get the data behind > 50 unique values :) Maybe not directly available in summary table, but accesible via some link. IMO, that would really help find patterns and some job for a bot.
 * b) for example, for this page - additional column for param value - also for making life easier.
 * c) maybe an option to download that table (action=paramlinks) as tsv/csv/json or some other format. If you have some big dataset/you're working with bot/processing offline, pressing "Next page" is not so easy.
 * d) for the same IMDb name, id is alias of 1, is they way to show that in regex field? Yes, I could duplicate the regex, but... Maybe make it something like 1|id=, "|" being a separator (which is not valid symbol for parameter name, so there shouldn't be any conflicts).
 * e) be careful with Wikidata field. Not very simple in some cases. For example, for Template:FIS we have 6 different Wikidata properties (one for each sector) + we don't have WD data for some few other sectors. But OK, that's not so important - pretty rare cases. And in some cases, URL pattern is different - the same d:Property:P345, as it's scope at WD is bigger than here.
 * Hmm, that would be all what comes to mind now. -- Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 06:24, 14 October 2016 (UTC)


 * a) Here is a dump of all of the template values for IMDb name. If you are going to import it into LibreOffice Calc, I had to force the text delimiter to a ~ (tilde) to get it to import properly.
 * c) I will look into adding this.
 * d) Aliases are handled properly. I have updated the documentation to reflect this. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:35, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm finally busy in real life, but now I have time to respond. Thanks about IMDb name dump scan. Actually, that template isn't so much in my interest (that was first example that came to mind :D ), but as a test it's fine :) No, I'm initially opening in Notepad++, so I don't have such problems. Thanks also for clarification about aliases. Speaking of which, another idea come to mind. For example, if template has param foo, which has alias bar and some article has both params set (and both of them are nonempty), then add them to the report somehow.  Edgars2007  (talk/contribs) 07:21, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

False positives at User:AlexNewArtBot/DisabilitySearchResult
Hi, thanks for this useful service. Could we figure out why there are so many irrelevant pages about railway stations listed? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 20:17, 29 October 2016 (UTC)


 * I have updated the Disability rules to exclude template parameters named disabled. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:36, 29 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 20:41, 29 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry, another railway station slipped through. I have updated the rules again to exclude infobox station. --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:06, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Database reports/Invalid Navbar links
Hi, re Database reports/Invalid Navbar links, please add, the param is navbar. Thanks. -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:32, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Added for December run. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:32, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:32, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, another one:, 2. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:38, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Added along with Navbar-collapsible. --Bamyers99 (talk) 01:27, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * -- Red rose64 (talk) 13:02, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Duke McKenzie
Much thanks for this edit. Whew, no idea what went wrong there! I think I was deleting a section or something after a lot of cleanup, but failed to realise the whole article got blanked before I went elsewhere. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 22:44, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Template Parameters Tool - Question Marks
Hello, I was using the Template Parameters Tool results earlier and noticed a problem, when following a link to an article that ends with a question mark, you get the "Wikipedia does not have an article with that name" error. It looks like the tool is creating the URL with ? on the end, instead of %3F which Wikipedia uses in its URLs to represent a question mark, and so it tries to use the ? as the start of a query that obviously isn't there. Its a minor thing in an otherwise brilliant tool, thanks for creating it. - X201 (talk) 11:00, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reporting this. I have fixed it to urlencode the article name. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:15, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks - X201 (talk) 16:19, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Project not found
Tried to submit WikiProject Genealogy and Category:WikiProject Genealogy but neither was found. Dan Koehl (talk) 02:45, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I assumed that you are talking about CleanupWorklistBot. I have gone ahead and added it. It will be in the February 14 run. I have also clarified that WikiProject prefix is not entered into the input form. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:54, 7 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot, and sorry for not being very clear and specific, I guess i didnt really understood that this request ended up on a user talk page, thought it was on a page within the project. Once again, thanks. Dan Koehl (talk) 15:02, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

TemplateParametersTool
How do we get a Template Parameters : Infobox Song report similar to Template Parameters : Infobox Single report? I tried setting up a TemplateData on Infobox song, but it keeps showing errors, etc. (I'm not familiar with most of this). —Ojorojo (talk) 19:16, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * When you edit the doc page with the wikitext editor, there is a "Manage TemplateData" button at the top of the page. This pops up a custom visual editor. See Help:TemplateData. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:16, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, I think it's done. The report will show up next month? —Ojorojo (talk) 19:48, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks good except for the ! parameter. The report will show up in early March. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:20, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't know why ! shows up as a parameter, but I removed it. —Ojorojo (talk) 14:33, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you
OK thanks for letting me know but are you really from Dormaa ??? Because you seems to give the wrong information that's why I tried to edit it and make it nice. The population of Dormaa Municipal is almost 700.000 aa of las year 2016...Dormaa isn't small anymore  SINDACO (talk) 10:32, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for ; A cut'n'paste gone wrong. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:39, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

And thanks for this. Seems to be working now! Dan Koehl (talk) 20:18, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Stimulant use disorder wiki page
Hey! I had a class project and we had to take a wiki stub and add to it. It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. How did it seem to you? Julianne Kivlin 20:57, 28 February 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkiv87 (talk • contribs)
 * I am not a medical expert, so I can't comment on the content. It looks well referenced. I noted in my update comment the things that I touched up. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:04, 28 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Awesome, thank you so much! Julianne Kivlin 21:09, 28 February 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkiv87 (talk • contribs)

User:AlexNewArtBot/FinlandSearchResult
Hi! I wonder why some relevant pages don't get listed on the page list I linked above, e.g., Category:Suomi-sarja and Kummatti (Raahe), which both were created on 28 March 2017‎ but didn't show up on the list. 88.113.105.231 (talk) 21:09, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I have updated the rules to allow for more than three words before Finland in a category name. Also to allow for a political subdivision before Finland in the lead. --Bamyers99 (talk) 22:00, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

my article on Hannah Witton
Thanks for reminding me I have to create a new entry which I have now done Cheers Ron Witton Rawitton — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rawitton (talk • contribs) 00:52, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Bot Edits on watchlist
Despite marking on my watch list not to be notified of bot edits I'm still receiving notifications about your bots edits. Why? Rhinos17 (talk) 21:37, 21 April 2017 (UTC) Rhinos17 (talk) 21:37, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't know why, InceptionBot has the bot flag set. Why would you watch a page that a bot is the only one doing updates to if you didn't want to be notified? --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:09, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Monthly error report
Hello, what needs to be added/done to a template to get a monthly error report? I know  is required on the template doc, but i can't see what triggers an article to be added to the report list. Thanks - X201 (talk) 14:57, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Edit the templates documentation page and press the  button that will appear near the top of the page. See TemplateData. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:12, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The template in question Template:Audiosample already has template data. It didn't have . does me adding that trigger it to get a report at the end of the month or does it have to be added to a list somewhere as well? - X201 (talk) 15:21, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Adding the TemplateData is all that is needed. The monthly report knows how to find all templates that have TemplateData. Audiosample will show up on next months report. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:27, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

OK, thanks - X201 (talk) 15:32, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

CleanupWorklistBot - assistance needed
Good day! Cleanup listing for WikiProject Croatia/Zagreb on the WikiProject's wiki-page returns error 404 - Not Found. Having attempted to add the project, as described on User:CleanupWorklistBot, I received the same error. Please help! Best regards! --Ivi104 (talk) 09:47, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The cleanup listing is now running for Zagreb. I have updated the Croatia/Zagreb WikiProject page to link to the new listing. --Bamyers99 (talk) 20:40, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot/FinlandSearchResult (#2)
Hi, it's me again. This time I noticed that Category:2022 in Finland (created on 21 May 2017‎) never got listed on User:AlexNewArtBot/FinlandSearchResult. Can you fix this too? I mostly use this helpful list to update iw links, so it would be nice to not miss any pages that should be on it. 88.113.104.224 (talk) 22:50, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I added a rule to match Finland in the page title. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:05, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Triple H edit
Thanks for fixing up the Triple H edit. I was just trying to add bolding to his ring name but it looks like somehow the linking got really messed up. AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 00:27, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

CleanupWorklistBot for categories or individual lists
Hi Bamyers, is there an implementation of your CleanupWorklistBot (or something similar) that will compile a list of cleanup tags for a specified set of articles other than a WikiProject (for example, a given category or a user-specified list)? If not, it could be a nice supplement to personal watchlists and onerous backlog templates. czar 23:30, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Unwatching this page, but please ping if you have any suggestions czar  02:37, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

InceptionBot ratings
Might I suggest that +190 for pattern: /\Wsong-stub\}\}/ is perhaps just a tad too high? "You Can Make It If You Try" sails through WP:NSONG for me (charting single etc. - which is why I wrote the article) - but giving it +190 for being a stub, which is all it is likely ever to be??? Surely not.

Unscrupulous editors could game that +190 rating to make non-notable songs look notable - and there seems to be a pretty solid consensus (with which I agree) that the majority of songs are not notable. Narky Blert (talk) 01:12, 14 July 2017 (UTC)


 * +190 is not a notability or quality rating. It represents the likelihood that an article is of interest to a particular WikiProject. --Bamyers99 (talk) 01:23, 14 July 2017 (UTC)


 * What concerns me, is that some WP:NPPs might look just at the numbers and wave new, garbage, articles through on the strength of the numbers alone. Narky Blert (talk) 01:55, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

My mistake. Apologies.
Hi Bamyers99, my apologies for this. I was analysing and undoing a suspect editor's edits and pressed undo on the wrong edit. Editor (under a different name) routinely removes such tags. My apologies. Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 16:49, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Dutch road N14: another change of the title?
Thursday 27 juli you changed the title of page concerning the Dutch road N14 (now Provincial road N14 (Netherlands)). I already thanked you for that, but unfortunately I now realise that also the new title is not correct: N14 is one exceptional N-road which not belongs to the province, but to central government en therefore it is a "Rijksweg". Would you please change the name and categorization of the page one more time? Thank you a lot in advance.VanuitVoorburg (talk) 10:52, 1 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I change the name to N14 expressway (Netherlands) per Limited-access road.--Bamyers99 (talk) 13:39, 1 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much againVanuitVoorburg (talk) 07:57, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Rules
Hi Bamyers99. Would you be willing to help configure the rules for the Women's sport project? If there's someone else managing the other bot that I should ask instead, please let me know. For now, I've mostly copied and pasted what we used for the Women's football/soccer task force, but was a bit confused as to how to update it for all women's sport (and women in sports) articles. Thank you. Hmlarson (talk) 03:49, 2 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I have added 'women in sports' rules. The rules are based on Category:Sportswomen by sport. I don't know about women's sport in general. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:39, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks a million. I'll check out the results when available next week. Many thanks. Hmlarson (talk) 18:43, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Database reports/Invalid Navbar links: redirects ignored
Hi, having just found that has caused that navbox to show at Database reports/Invalid Navbar links where it was not previously listed, would it be possible to look for transclusion through redirects as well as direct transclusion, please? For example, has [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Navbox&hidetrans=1&hidelinks=1 these redirects]. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:17, 12 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I have changed the code to automatically find the redirects. I was manually maintaining a list of redirects and missed some. The September 1 list will use the new code. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:06, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
 * -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 22:28, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Name Change
Hello, Rainbow International School, Seoul is changed to Korea Foreign School. How can we change the name of the page to Korea Foreign School? Thanks, Kfsuser (talk) 07:50, 13 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I have moved the page to Korea Foreign School. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:27, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-37
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Recent changes
 * You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
 * The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: . This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug.

Problems
 * Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.

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Tech News: 2017-38
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them.
 * Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Tech News: 2017-39
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with +  or  +  when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow.

Changes later this week
 * You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences.
 * Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.


 * The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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Error in cleanup listing
Hi Bamyers99, I was just doing some work at WikiProject Bahá'í Faith and noticed that the cleanup listing has been broken for a while. The project is included in the master project list, but when I used the tool to test it out, the category link was broken (it should link to Category:Bahá'í Faith articles by quality). Any idea how to fix this? dragfyre_ ʞןɐʇ c 17:59, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I think I got confused; I see that the cleanup listings are hosted on the toolserver now, rather than being added to WikiProject subpages as WolterBot used to do. Everything is fine, nothing to see here, move along... dragfyre_ ʞןɐʇ c 18:05, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I have fixed the category link on the test page. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:16, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! dragfyre_ ʞןɐʇ c 20:20, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it.

Changes later this week
 * If you have turned on "" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature.
 * Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature.
 * The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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Tech News: 2017-41
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The number of active users listed by  and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too.
 * Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. :File:X.jpg now has to be File:X.jpg . There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter.

Problems
 * You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models.

Changes later this week
 * The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week.
 * If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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