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CBIII
Is CBIII working alright? It's last edit is the 2nd, and I'd be surprised that there was nothing to archive in the past 4 days. Q T C 20:40, 6 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I've given it a kicking and it seems to be logging as doing something... so we will see - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 21:01, 6 March 2024 (UTC)


 * That seems to have done it, chewing through the backlog now. Q  T C 21:10, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Super, thanks for letting me know :) - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 21:14, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

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Edit conflicts by RichBot
Hey, I frequently monitor Category:Pending AfC submissions in userspace and perform a lot of the cleanup for that category. My typical process is: The problem is that (while ever helpful in conducting his task dutifully), will sometimes cause an edit conflict if he jumps in too quick to do one item on that cleanup step.
 * 1) Move the page to a proper Draft: space location, if an appropriate title can be identified.
 * 2) Perform cleanup for a lot of new articles (e.g.: remove level 1 headers, remove the user sandbox template, bold the subject name in the lead, etc.), if required.
 * 3) Conduct a quick AfC review (i.e.: quick decline, reject, approve, csd), if possible.

I wanted to ask you about putting a time-delay on his cleanup. Is it possible he could check to see if anyone has edited in the last 4–5 minutes and hold off on removing the template, just to prevent edit conflicts?

Cheers, microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 21:02, 7 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hey Marcus, for sure that is something I can look in to this evening when I get home from work - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 21:05, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
 * That would be stellar, thanks a bunch Rich!
 * &mdash; microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 21:07, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ RichBot will now wait for at least 5 minutes after the last revision before taking any action on a draft - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 00:37, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * That is excellent, I really appreciate that, it'll reduce a few minor inconveniences with my editing. I love RichBot, this makes it even better! microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 13:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Ahh, I don't know if all the bugs are worked out. Special:Diff/1212799348. I wonder if page moves are marked as minor, or don't alter the actual page in any substantial way. microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 17:09, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * ugh, so I'm relying on the last edit (as shown on the page info (Date of latest edit). At quick glance, looks like moves does not change this date/time... that's fun... - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 17:40, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * "Fun" is the term that would only be used by an optimist. If it ends up being too much, it's not that big of an inconvenience. By all means, don't spend too much time trying to solve this small problem. microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 20:06, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Or a snarky Brit ;) So I tested with Draft:RichBotTest2 (moving it from Draft:RichBotTest), and it does update the edit time... so my only other guess is its lag on the API, so it's getting the wrong time (that being, the time of the edit previous) and hence its allowing the edit. There is literally nothing I can do about that, however I have increased the run time from every 5 minutes to every 10 minutes to hopefully combat it. - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 21:01, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-11
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
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 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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Tech News: 2024-12
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 * The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
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 * Octicons-tools.svg The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
 * Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown.

Problems
 * RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.

Changes later this week
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