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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Justlettersandnumbers • L235
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Guerillero • NativeForeigner •  Snowolf • Xeno

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
 * There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.

Technical news
 * Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
 * The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
 * Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
 * The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
 * Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
 * Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:13, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

IABot on Cantonese Wikipedia
...hasn't edited anything since the test run on 24 August. Would you please set it up to scan and rescue links automatically? Deryck C. 12:42, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm trying to get a fixed version of IABot out first.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 20:34, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Not transcluding AfDs
There seems to be a bug. Please look at Articles for deletion/Massimo De Feo. w umbolo  ^^^  15:10, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Architectural timeline
Hi Cyber! I see you are last editing timeline of architecture. Just wanted to tell you that it has serious problems and mistakes, along with huge gaps (styles missing) I would edit it myself but I dont know how to edit timelines I wrote about some problems on talk page. Please fix it or send someone with knowledge of architecture to correct it, 20th century sticks out as biggest problem. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.243.31.234 (talk) 20:32, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't dabble with architecture.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 20:34, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * It was your bot Cyberbot II I dont understand how that works cause I am noob when it comes to Wikipedia but pls notify some editor, it is article of Top importance and somehow, someway its B class article which is baffling with so many mistakes.(assume it got rank before it was merged with very, very bad 20th century timeline)
 * His bots (Cyberbot, IABot etc) are for maintenance, and they will edit any page. Sorry for the confusion. Remagoxer (talk) 16:04, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Wrong parameters in use
Seems like your bot gets confused over english templates at nowiki. See for example this change. A thread is open at w:no:Wikipedia:Torget. Jeblad (talk) 05:03, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

IAbot is down
Its stuck on job 2678 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.242.16.145 (talk) 14:51, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Just to expand, its actually stuck on job 2677 at page number 2849. List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Champagne-Ardennes where it has been for a few days. Automatic bot operation (A - Z) seems to be working fine. I may also add that before it stopped working it was only running 1 bot job after another instead of 5 at once, not sure if intended or related to this. Redalert2fan (talk) 15:05, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Confirm user-submitted bot jobs not running (FARotBot didn't run due to previous queue). -- Green  C  15:12, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Please Help
Hello Cyberpower678, since you are a Wikipedia administrator, can you please remove the warning a bot put on my talk page? I do not use any special software or editing tools. All my contributions are painstakingly manual edits. In addition, I get frequent electricity and Internet outages in the part of the world I'm in right now. These outages are usually between 10 to 60 minutes long. This makes manual editing even more difficult and slow. So I didn't realise when I removed an AfD template by mistake when trying to fix the Labbayk page. Despite all these obstacles, I still try my best and contribute. Wikipedia user Icewhiz put a "Single Purpose Account" tag next to my contributions in Labbayk deletion discussion page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Labbayk_(2nd_nomination). Can you please remove that tag too? Since I'm relatively new here, I feel aggrieved and wronged. Please help. Liberty Pedia (talk) 12:46, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Undefined Page
Why did you change all of that useful information in Undefined to green? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluecrab2 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ?— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 00:50, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Look at this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Undefined&diff=prev&oldid=862074987 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluecrab2 (talk • contribs) 03:03, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot I at Articles for deletion/Massimo De Feo
Cyberbot I has been posting multiple messages per day to Articles for deletion/Massimo De Feo. Could you take a look if you get a chance? Much appreciated. Bakazaka (talk) 04:51, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The transcluions were failing due to hitting the spam-blacklist. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:11, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot I needs a newline if first AfD log transclusion?
Mentioned at WT:TW, see example from 19 October. It seems like if Cyberbot I lists the first entry on a given day's AFD log, it doesn't include the newline after the comment in the log, and Twinkle looks for that newline. I think this is line 524 of afdbot.php but I could be wrong. ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 11:05, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Apostrophe issue
Hi there. If you have a second, could you take a look at this? It looks like the apostrophe in the username may be confusing the bot. 28bytes (talk) 01:06, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know.— CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 19:51, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

IABot DB
Hi Cyberpower678, could i have some news about "the primary issue of IABot, expanding the DB to handle different archive services." ? Johan linterweb (talk) 08:14, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Still not ready yet.— CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 19:51, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Appointed as reserve Commissioner for ACE2018
Hey Cyberpower! Just letting you know that you have been appointed by the community as a reserve Commissioner for WP:ACE2018. While you did not finish in the top three, it was only by a slim margin, and you should be proud of the substantial and unanimous support you received. As a reserve Commissioner, you will be the one who is called up to replace or stand in for any of the Commissioners, should one of them resign or otherwise become unable to serve. Until then, you're more than welcome to help run the election and assist with any tasks that need doing, but you are under no obligation to do so (though, you should probably follow along in case you're needed). The coordination pages for this election can be found at WP:COORD18 and WT:COORD18. Congrats! Swarm talk  02:31, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Indeed - I didn't vote for you, although I think you are absolutely fine for the role, but with 4 serious candidates for 3 places, I determined to only cast 3 votes whatever. I'm sure many thought the same. Johnbod (talk) 03:40, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you Swarm, and the no worries Johnbod. :-)— CYBER POWER  (Trick or Treat) 11:44, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

replylink
Regarding User:Enterprisey/reply-link - looks like there is a long way to go before this would end up in common.js - but I could easily see it becoming a Gadget. (Can IP users even trigger echo notifications??) — xaosflux  Talk 17:53, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I think so.— CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 17:56, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Just tested - they can. — xaosflux  Talk 18:03, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * , Told you. :p — CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 18:13, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

October 2018
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Grudge, you may be blocked from editing. Ugh, I have a grudge against you. Legoktm (talk) 19:09, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
 * , What did I do???? — CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 19:10, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Nothing at all <3 Legoktm (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * (tps) Am I missing something here? (t) Josve05a  (c) 17:23, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * It was an in person joke from WikiConference North America :-) I don't even remember what the original context was, but Cyberpower and I were in a discussion someone mentioned something about level 3 warnings specifically, having grudges, and yeah. How could I resist proving a point?? Legoktm (talk) 18:12, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah okay, good xD I got worried there for a second. Too bad that I was working during WCNA this year, or I would have attended this year again. (t) Josve05a  (c) 21:46, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you
...for helping me with 1CA. You're right, I should ditch the alphabet and just use numbers like everyone else.— Mythdon ( talk  •  contribs ) 04:32, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot I archival issue
Not sure what happened here, but you might want to have a look at it. Jc86035 (talk) 16:48, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Improper sentence in InternetArchiveBot userpage.
Hello! On the userpage of InternetArchiveBot on Meta-Wiki, which is displayed on a lot of other Wikis, there is a sentence that's got two issues. I tried fixing it, but I wasn't allowed to edit someone else's userpage (which is understandable, but unexpected). Here's the sentence in question: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:InternetArchiveBot#What_is_InternetArchiveBot_and_what_does_it_do? Different options, such as controlling which sources to touch, which pages to scan, and whether or not scan live links and act on that information.] There's no main verb, and 'to' misses at 'whether or not to scan'. I think it would be nice if you could fix this. :) 607 (talk) 07:05, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Another
edit-request at MediaWiki talk:PageTriageExternalTagsOptions.js :-) &#x222F; WBG converse 12:56, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Interface Edit Requests - Bot Table
Hello Cyberpower678, as an interface administrator I wanted to let you know that there are two pages you should consider watch-listing: Interface administrators' noticeboard and User:AnomieBOT/IPERTable. The later is a bot-generated table of all outstanding interface edit requests that you may be able to handle. Thank you for your continuing support of Wikipedia! — xaosflux  Talk 14:40, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * , Check my user page. It's already there. :p —  CYBER POWER  ( Trick or Treat) 15:19, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

User submitted bot jobs
..haven't been working for about a month. Wondering if Job 2451 might be the problem due to unusual pages being requested like Special:Search and Special:Randompage -- Green  C  15:37, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Bot self edit warring in User:Cyberpower678/Tally
FYI Hhkohh (talk) 16:10, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

The bot is also removing ppl from the Request for unblock table when their respective unblock requests haven't been answered (it removed 5 in one go w/out adding anybody as if it thought they had been answered) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.194.78 (talk) 17:59, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

User
How do you change the User Color and font? Thegooduser  Let's Chat  🍁  00:51, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot disable in kowiki
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영어(en):

Hi, yberpower678

InternetArchiveBot is now disable in kowiki. Please check the problem.
 * ko:위키백과:사랑방 (기술)/2018년 11월

Thank you --메이 (talk) 08:46, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

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한국어(ko):

yberpower678 님 안녕하세요

한국어 위키백과에서 봇 작동은 현재 중단(disable)되었습니다. 문제에 대한 확인을 부탁드립니다.
 * ko:위키백과:사랑방 (기술)/2018년 11월

감사합니다. --메이 (talk) 08:46, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Can your bot help here?
There is an ongoing conversation on Wikimedia Commons where your bot could come in handy. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:11, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Sir Sputnik
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Everyking • Jackmcbarn

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Keilana

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
 * A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news
 * Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
 * A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
 * The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
 * The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:18, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Apparent anomaly with Cyberbot I AfD update
Noticed that this AfD tag update blew away the article content as well. Might be a bug unless there was good reason in this case to delete the article's content during AfD. Dl2000 (talk) 22:40, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Blanking of Barney's Good Day Good Night
Hi Cyberpower. Have a look at Special:Diff/836641017/866501844. Best, Sam Sailor 09:02, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * It happened again at Barney's 1-2-3-4 Seasons. See Special:Diff/864848555/867120690. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk &bull;&#32;contribs) 23:06, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

RFU Bot down?
Heads up - looks like Cyberbot hasn't updated User:Cyberbot_I/Requests_for_unblock_report in a few hours. SQL Query me! 06:57, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Bot blanking articles at AfD
See. Regards,  Sandstein   19:11, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

That
Wikiplus seems to be behaving weirdly, (as to edit conflicts) and I had already phrased my second question, I was not bothered enough as to the restoration of your comment. If you feel that it can't even stay at the page, feel free to exercise your discretion. At any case, I derive satisfaction from your thoughts that the first statement was too vague to be understood and replied by Fred. &#x222F; WBG converse 19:54, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * And, FWIW, I knew for the first time that someone can knowingly edit conflict with another editor :-) That Fred had already mentioned his response (which I fairly expected), I was framing my second one and the last time, I checked, I did not have an access to your thoughts either..../ &#x222F; WBG converse 19:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , It's not about the "statement" being vague. It's about the "question" being a statement.  You made remarks on Fred's vagueness and simply threw out "Any comments?"  Which reads to me as an "attack", for lack of a better word, rather than an honest question.  I'm only asking you to rephrase it to be an actual question, like "Can you please explain why your answers above are so short and vague?", or something along that lines.  Otherwise, I feel it has no place in the questions page. — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 19:58, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Apologies, that it came off as an attack.
 * It was like:-- Please comment as to the broader locus of my preceding statement (which was very-evidently about how his poor communication skills was not conducive to being an arbitrator).
 * Cheers! &#x222F; WBG converse 20:13, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Cheers! &#x222F; WBG converse 20:13, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Cheers! &#x222F; WBG</b> converse 20:13, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

cat:requests for unblcok
This table is out of date. -- <b style="color:black">Dloh cier ekim </b> (talk) 04:53, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Adminstats
Hasn't been updated, for me at least, for the past few days (not sure when it stopped). Thanks for looking into it.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:46, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Name
Hello. I was wondering. How did you get your name to change colors? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nativepurps (talk • contribs) 15:52, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Book report
Cyberpower, although the bot is updating the book report timestamp template, however it hasn't been updating book reports for the last few days. A glitch again? — I<b style="color: #FF033E;">B</b> [ <b style="font-family: Tempus Sans ITC; color: #1C1CF0;">Poke</b> ] 23:11, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

IABot - dead domains for Olympic Games websites
For IABot, could you mark the following Olympic Games websites as dead (some redirect to www.olympic.org, but it is not the same page or information as the original websites, which no longer exist): Thanks. -- Zyxw (talk) 12:47, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * www.pyeongchang2018.com – example at Elin Lundberg – original URL – archive URL
 * www.rio2016.com (marked dead 2017-05-08, then marked alive 2018-04-22) – example at Shaun Keeling – original URL – archive URL
 * www.sochi2014.com – example at Maximilian Arndt – original URL – archive URL
 * www.london2012.com (marked dead 2017-10-07, then marked alive 2018-05-31) – example at Maggie Steffens – original URL – archive URL
 * www.vancouver2010.com – example at Lee Seung-hoon – original URL – archive URL
 * results.beijing2008.cn – example at Giulia Arcioni – original URL – archive URL
 * www.torino2006.org – example at Alexandr Smyshlyaev – original URL – archive URL
 * www.athens2004.com – example at Peter Gade – original URL – archive URL
 * www.saltlake2002.com – example at Hervé Lord – original URL – archive URL

GamesTM
Please mark http://www.gamestm.co.uk/ as dead. Thanks! --Izno (talk) 13:11, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , It doesn't seem very dead to me. — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 14:37, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Yet. The print magazine is ending and the owning company has a reputation for closing their websites. Is there an "archive even if it's not dead" option? :) --Izno (talk) 15:02, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , Yes. I forward this thread to the developers of the Wayback Machine. — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 15:03, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Bot blanking
Could you take a look at [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple&diff=867859091&oldid=867849018 this] when you get a chance? Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 15:40, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Already did. It was reported to me on IRC.  No idea what's causing it at this time.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 15:40, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. 28bytes (talk) 15:42, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Sorry to see your stress meter is registering high, but here's another one. The page is indeed PC-protected, so the template the bot said should be removed was appropriate. – wbm1058 (talk) 23:52, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections
Are you the clerk for the ArbCom elections? If so, please advise me as to what I need to do. I am trying to submit a candidate statement, and I find the instructions to be incomprehensible. Can you either advise or help? Robert McClenon (talk) 19:19, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , I'm on the electoral commission, yes. I saw your submission and no worries.  I'll fix the submission for you.  But your statement seems to lack condition 3 of the statement requirement.  Your intent to comply with non-public data policies are not to be found in the statement. — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 19:22, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * May I add a sentence to it? I thought that what I had said was clear, but if it wasn't, I will clarify.  Robert McClenon (talk) 20:15, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , Sure. Just keep the statement under 400 words. :-) — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 20:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Added a statement that I would preserve the trust. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:36, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , Point 3 of the candidate qualifications reads:
 * (iii) confirm that the candidate will fully comply with the criteria for access to non-public data;
 * Further infomation can be found here: Access_to_nonpublic_personal_data_policy.
 * I am not convinced that your current statement satisfies this requirement. I can't tell if you meet the minimum requirements for access to non-public data, and if you intend to sign that document. SQL <sup style="font-size: 5pt;color:#999">Query me!  00:18, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * User:SQL - I have added a sentence. Is that now clear?  Is the wording satisfactory now?  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:48, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , Looks fine, thank you very much! SQL <sup style="font-size: 5pt;color:#999">Query me!  05:35, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not convinced that your current statement satisfies this requirement. I can't tell if you meet the minimum requirements for access to non-public data, and if you intend to sign that document. SQL <sup style="font-size: 5pt;color:#999">Query me!  00:18, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * User:SQL - I have added a sentence. Is that now clear?  Is the wording satisfactory now?  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:48, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , Looks fine, thank you very much! SQL <sup style="font-size: 5pt;color:#999">Query me!  05:35, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Requesting InternetArchiveBot active for Vietnamese Wikipedia
Hello, how to add this bot to the Vietnamese Wikipedia? Minhngoc25a (talk) 13:52, 11 November 2018 (UTC).
 * , I need you to assist with translations when I'm ready to deploy there. — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 15:42, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , when will you ready to deploy? Minhngoc25a (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Cyberbot didn't begin today's current event page
Cyberbot didn't make today's current event page like it normally does --Gimmethegepgun (talk) 00:55, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

"coordinators"
Sorry, but I don't understand your edit summary. So what does "contact the coordinators" mean in Template:Arbitration Committee Elections? It must be you and KTC and SQL, since I see you all answering questions on that talk page... Drmies (talk) 03:55, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , the coordinators are Xaosflux and Swarm. We just carry out the issues which require our authority, and serve as coordinators at the same time. — CYBERPOWER  ( Message ) 04:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Requests for unblock table
Cyberbot hasn't updated the table in 17 hrs. 148.197.248.32 (talk) 20:31, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder/Evidence. Please add your evidence by November 27, 2018, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Fred Bauder/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, --Cameron11598 (Talk) 21:09, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Adminstats
Hi Cyberpower, could you please have a look why c:User:Cyberbot I doesn't update my c:Template:Adminstats/Achim55 any longer? Thank you! Best, --Achim (talk) 09:58, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

AdminStatsBot
I've noticed that AdminStatsBot doesn't seem to be updating the edit count stat in the admin stats on my userpage. I haven't looked further than that. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:00, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Ditto as above - No Stats
I think the last time it updated my stats was Nov 12. And I think it's been iffy all month. Looks to me like the only November updates were on days 1,2,3,9,10,12. — Maile (talk) 01:35, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I would imagine that CP678 has been somewhat preoccupied with the elections drama. He's always gotten it back up soon in the past, so I doubt there's major cause for concern. ~  Amory <small style="color:#555"> (u • t • c) 02:07, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

hiwiki at IABot Management Interface
I am writing you because I found link of your userpage at iabot. I found many wiki there but couldn't find hiwiki. Can you please tell me how can we update it? &#9734;&#9733; Sanjeev Kumar   ( talk ) 14:13, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , hiwiki Support needs to be added to let IABot work there. To start, I need a discussion to happen there showing that there is support for the bot. — CYBERPOWER  ( Happy Thanksgiving) 20:15, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Trouble with & symbol
Hi Cyberpower678. Looks like the bot is having trouble parsing the ampersands in usernames. Special:Diff/869754488. 28bytes (talk) 13:09, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , Cyberbot needs an overhaul on all of its scripts. I just don’t know when that will happen. — CYBERPOWER  ( Happy Thanksgiving) 20:13, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 20:19, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Wrecking signatures
I'm sorry. Blame VisualEditor (and my laziness). Deryck C. 16:02, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 

Internet Archive Bot
Bringing back an earlier conversation, is the latest version of IABot ready for deployment on the Cantonese Wikipedia yet? IABot hasn't done anything there since August. Deryck C. 16:01, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , yes it is. I just need to get my computer back. — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 16:35, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

BRFA
Howdy! Are you still active in the WP:BRFA? -- Zack mann  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:54, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , kind of. Why?  Do need BAG? — CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 22:17, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Yup. I have 2 that are pending. ZackBot 11 & ZackBot 13. If you have some time. :-) -- Zack mann  (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:26, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Cyberbot I/Current AfD's
The table hasn't been updated in many days and was intermittent before that. Not urgent, but is there an issue or an alternative page I should use? StrayBolt (talk) 00:36, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks!?! Running again for at least 2 cycles, assuming you fixed it. StrayBolt (talk) 03:26, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Please expand
Hello Cyberpower678, regarding Administrators'_noticeboard I see you closed this, but without any commentary. Is this mean a new protection level needs to added, for int-admins protections - and that everyone who needs to touch every template related to main page will need to become intadmins? — xaosflux  Talk 03:28, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * , I just finished expanding. :-) — CYBERPOWER  (<span style="color:\#FF8C00">Around ) 03:29, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I've requested a closure review at Administrators'_noticeboard, as I think your closure is premature due to active discussions that have been shut down without reference in your closing. — xaosflux  Talk 03:38, 26 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Regarding 2FA, I'm also a strong supporter of this - I've been talking to the WMF team about the enforcement, they are doing a write up on it for publication and are also determining if adding software enforcement is a good idea right now (T150562). I've also requested an ability to audit 2FA activation for accounts (T209749).  Good night! —  xaosflux  Talk 03:53, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Book report again
Hi Cyberpower, can you please check and see is the bot again skipping book reports or has the schedule for running book reports changed? Please don't archive it as if there's a problem we can try to solve it. Also pinging. — I<b style="color: #FF033E;">B</b> [ <b style="font-family: Tempus Sans ITC; color: #1C1CF0;">Poke</b> ] 10:16, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Adminstats
Hi, why isn't my adminstats updating? I've got  on this page but it still won't update. The doc says it can be on a subpage, but is this not correct? <b style="font-family:Papyrus"> Anarchyte ( talk  &#124;  work ) </b> 13:42, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!
I couldn't thank Cyberbot for updating my page because the option isn't there, so I thank you here! – Athaenara ✉  15:15, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Continued page blanking by Cyberbot II
Hello Cyberpower, just letting you know that Cyberbot II is once again blanking pending changes protected pages. See this diff. Jalen D. Folf  (talk)  22:23, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry to pile on, but is Cyberbot II the World's Biggest Liar? Looking at the page history I see that the bot has made 9 of the last 50 edits, and sometimes it seems to be edit warring with itself. That page has been continuously pending-changes protected with no expiration date set, since July 2013. The bot making so many edits to the page kind of defeats the purpose of protecting it. This was reported earlier this month. Please make tracking down the cause a priority. This has been an ongoing problem on that page for the past three years+ Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 22:13, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Cascading protection of Template:ACEWatchlistNotice
I've removed the cascading protection from Template:ACEWatchlistNotice after increasing the protection level of any transcluded templates. Per WP:PTPROT, cascading protection on templates generally doesn't do what you would expect since it protects things included in <noinclude ></noinclude> but doesn't protect things inside <includeonly ></includeonly>. Anomie⚔ 01:13, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

English Heritage website changed the URL syntax for accessing its site database
I signed up for using the IABot Management Interface and looked at both functions it offers, and also looked at the FAQ but I didn't see anywhere it addressed this. Example:
 * old syntax: https://web.archive.org/web/20150209013851/http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1008093# dead links now, but some may be found at Internet Archive)
 * new syntax: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1008093

So what needs to be done is change
 * to:

The database ID #  stays the same, There are a lot more where that came from, with just different ID numbers.

The bot tried and failed to fix so many of them on Scheduled monuments in Mendip that it populated Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded and triggered an error – I found this on my routine error patrol. I can fix this manually, but as this isn't the first time I've seen such a site-breaking URL change, I thought I'd better tell you about it. – wbm1058 (talk) 22:37, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I am slowly converting these over to use NHLE to future proof them. Keith D (talk) 23:36, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. See this diff where I just fixed one list item. The additional template transclusion overhead increased the no. of transcluded bytes, which will go beyond the limit if everything else is fixed the same way... leaving two less desirable options. (1) Just fix the hardcoded URLs and don't use that template (2) split the list somehow. Or a better but harder option if you're not a Lua coder (3) rewite the template code as a Lua module. – wbm1058 (talk) 01:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The template was made worse for traslusion limit especially when used on large lists when someone switched it to use a wrapper template. I think that the wrapper template should probably be removed. Keith D (talk) 11:57, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

FWIW it's usually not a good idea to use external link templates vs. CS1|2 for citations. It might help the immediate problem of URL moves, but it creates other more serious problems. For example there is no URL in the wikisource to trigger an automated save at Wayback, the link may never get saved to Wayback. And most tools that manage citations can't handle specialize templates like NHLE so any maintenance is skipped. For example, IABot, WaybackMedic, Citation bot, etc.. The problem of URL moves can easily be solved with bots, my bot for example can fix those (example). WP:BOTREQ. -- Green  C  03:57, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Unable to report false positives for InternetArchiveBot
Hello! Firstly, I would like to thank you for the wonderful contributions you have made to Wikipedia! The InternetArchiveBot is amazing. I was trying to use the tool to report false positives, but when I click submit, the next page tells me to review the URLs to make sure they are not dead but the submit button isn't allowing me to click it — there is a prohibition sign. The two URLs I am trying to report as false positives are here and here. Thank you! –Daybeers (talk) 22:49, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svgk Chan

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
 * A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
 * A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news
 * Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
 * To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
 * Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
 * Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries
 * (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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