User talk:ListeriaBot/Archive 1

Dutch list
Hi, why where so many (articles with red links) removed from WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Netherlands see here. Thanks, Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 12:21, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Acctress
Hi, and with this edit people were deleted while they were not created, and even nothing changed at Wikidata for most of them. Sander.v.Ginkel (Talk) 16:29, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Destructive revision by ListeriaBot of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Israel
Hello, ListeriaBot-person! I recently undertook improving the content of Missing articles by nationality for Israel by updating their Wikidata items with anglicized labels and descriptions, and statements with biographical content. When I would review the list after a Bot update (some initiated by me after I'd added considerable material), it seemed some content was "dynamic" - e.g. actress "Ruby Porat Shoval" would appear and then disappear, without my having intervened. New as I am to the Women in Red WikiProject, perhaps there are some manual adjustments made by people with an agenda...? But today's second update by the ListeriaBot = 20:23 on 23 January 2017 = wiped out so much valid content that I undid it, with the following Edit summary: '''Undid revision 761594753 by ListeriaBot (talk) many notable names were deleted in this revision - by what criteria?? Some have Wikidata items to which I added significant content recently'''. Please explain how I can prevent valid content from being wiped out!! -- Deborahjay (talk) 21:21, 23 January 2017 (UTC) Update More of the same with each daily automated update, much worse on the third (25 January). I need a response (and see here on your User talk page the same or similar problem occured for the Netherlands page), this time pinging here in hopes of reaching your operator. Thank you, -- Deborahjay (talk) 11:56, 25 January 2017 (UTC)


 * This bot is run by . --Thnidu (talk) 09:29, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Also discussed at Village pump (technical) PrimeHunter (talk) 13:15, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Cairo is called "Kuwait"
Strage bot edit: Cairo → [[Cairo|Kuwait] ]. --Recherchedienst (talk) 22:09, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * The reason is some vandalism edits in Wikidata on March 1, see this history. --Larske (talk) 07:35, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Adding non-free images
For some reason this bot keeps re-adding non-free images to Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines/Task force LGU/Provinces in Wikidata even though such images on not allowed to be used on such a page per WP:NFCC. Maybe whomever is operating it can check it to make sure it's running properly. Thanks. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:23, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Similar to what was happening before, the bot now keeps adding the non-free File:Liu Xiaobo.jpg to Wikipedia:GLAM/Amnesty International: Human Rights Defenders. The problem seems to be that there is a file on Commons with the same name and the bot is unable to distinguish between the local non-free Wikipedia file and the Commons file. FWIW, the Comomns files is likely a copyvio which will soon be deleted, but still the bot should be able to detect when it is adding a non-free file to a page and tweaked not to do such a thing. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:50, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by identifier/SR
Hi. Just a note to say that this page hasn't been updated by your bot for a few days, but other lists are being updated. Is there an issue with Wikidata? Thanks.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 10:05, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Not working on Hiwiki
PS. Following error appearing

Trying to update सदस्य:Capankajsmilyo/श्रीदेवी... Return to सदस्य:Capankajsmilyo/श्रीदेवी Also, check out the current bot status! Status: No template match Notice: Undefined variable: wiki_id in /data/project/listeria/public_html/index.php on line 51

Help. Thanks. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · [//xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/?username=Capankajsmilyo&project=en.wikipedia.org count])  05:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Southeast Queens Biennial 2018
this page was in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls due to the format of the stuff in the sparql, so I wrapped the contents in . please fix this in a different way if I broke it. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 19:38, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Disable Mainspace edits?
Hi. ListeriaBot was used today to populate a whole bunch of articles with the Template:Wikidata list. Is there anyway to program ListeriaBot not to update pages in mainspace? Talk pages would obviously be OK. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 04:43, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Recent Deaths
This page does not seem to work and can not be updated. --Folengo (talk) 15:30, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

'item' not showing
I added an "item" column to a Listeria query on Wikispecies, in this edit, and forced the bot to re-run (twice!), but the column is not showing. Where did I screw up? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:59, 2 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I think you probably just didn't hit the update this list button hard enough. I have it a clout just now and it works a treat. (Honestly don't know. Listeria returning a cached version? Though I'd expect it to notice if the columns arguments were changed.) --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:03, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ListeriaBot lied to me. Thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:13, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

MDF notification
See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:ORCID/Items with ORCID identifiers, a proposal to delete a page that this bot writes to. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:13, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Adding duplicate parameters
Any way we can make it so [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3APandemic&type=revision&diff=948929720&oldid=948026191 this edit] doesn't add string twice? Frietjes (talk) 22:11, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Frietjes (talk) 22:14, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Re-examination request
A discussion involving this bot has been raised at the Bots Noticeboard. Interested editors may wish to participate. Barkeep49 (talk) 14:39, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Strange group of people in list
To the operator of this bot, why was this non-notable group of people included in a to-do list? How did they end up in Wikidata? Geschichte (talk) 12:40, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The bot merely includes names that fit given criteria as indicated on Wikidata. Wikidata has different notability criteria than Wikipedia, notably much more permissive (Wikidata is about structured data and connectivity, not whether the subject merits a Wikipedia article: the 4th co-author of an obscure scholarly journal article, or stillborn children of British nobles warrant Wikidata items in order to more accurately model data). As the top of the list says: "All new articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria; red links on this list may or may not qualify." Many likely will never qualify. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 20:50, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Blanking pages
In many times, the bot is blanking the page after clicking to update. See for instance at
 * Database reports/Recent deaths (red links): 1, 2, 3, 4.
 * WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by time period/Recent deaths: 1, 2

When updating again, everything returns. SportsOlympic (talk) 10:45, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Database reports/Recent deaths
It looks like this page hasn't been updated by ListeriaBot since November 2020. Any way we could get it back on track to update regularly? Liz Read! Talk! 19:06, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * And Database reports/Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic hasn't updated since August 2020! Maybe this report should officially be discontinued & deleted. Liz Read! Talk! 19:54, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Infoboxes added to the "description" column
Recent bot updates to Wikidata lists are adding infoboxes to descriptions Is this a bug or something editors should be adjusting in their SPARQL before running the bot? czar 06:47, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Outputting categories
User:Jura1/pages with Wikidata items without any statements is a report page, automatically generated by ListeriaBot to keep track of a maintenance issue. It seems like a perfectly legitimate and useful list in principle — but the problem is that if one of the pages it picks up corresponds to a category, then it just lists the category like an article and causes that workpage to be filed in the category instead of just linking to the category. However, pages like that aren't supposed to be filed in articlespace categories at all, meaning that I just a few minutes ago had to remove 13 categories from the page — but ListeriaBot will readd categories to the list again the next time it runs that job, and thus throw the page right back into categories it isn't supposed to be in again.

Accordingly, I wanted to ask if it's possible to make a small adjustment to ListeriaBot, so that if it has to output a category to a worklist of this type, it does so either with a leading colon or with the cl template, so that it becomes a text link to the category instead of filing the worklist in the category? Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 13:17, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Is the bot broken?
Since yesterday, when I try to update a page with the bot, I get a "Last line: ERROR: Login failed" message. It also does not seem to have made any edits in the last few hours. Is it broken? Calistemon (talk) 03:29, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Apparently, other useres are having the same issue and the bot has made no edits since before my previous post. See Github where the issue has been raised. Calistemon (talk) 22:41, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
 * And here on Phabricator. Calistemon (talk) 00:10, 11 February 2023 (UTC)