User talk:VoABot II/admin panel.js

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//This vastly restricts shared IP or new user editing to the watchlist, many types of edits will be reverted //moves to pages in the watclist by new users will be reverted var WATCHLIST_LIMITED_BOT=1; //(must be 0 or 1)

So we are facing an overwhelmingly high level of vandalism that RC patrollers simply cannot deal with, so there is no choice but to instruct a bot to revert almost everything by new and anonymous users? News to me.

If, as I strongly suspect, this isn't the case after all, please disable this, now. The bot has been violating the three-revert rule and repeatedly reverting edits that are not obviously bad even to a human editor – Gurch 12:03, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Not done. That setting has been on since 13 October 2006, so it's unlikely to be the source of any recent problems; that may be due to one of the other settings. Note that the bot doesn't revert almost everything by anons, but rather edits to a certain list of articles on the bot's watchlist (I don't know which articles those are). So the bot is effectively soft-semi-protecting those articles, as I understand it, but I may be wrong. My guess from the bot's description is that its watchlist is meant to be set up to contain common target pages for pagemove vandals to move pages to and maybe some redirects from contentious alternative names for articles that are currently against consensus, and some particularly contentious articles where the bot is being used as an alternative to protecting the page. At present, the only pages being watched are those in Category:Semi-protected from banned users, which are all meant to be semi'd anyway, so that setting should be irrelevant at the moment; if there's a problem on a particular article, and it's in that category, then most likely it's because someone has falsely applied pp-semi-sock on an unprotected page, and if it isn't, it seems unlikely to be connected to that config option. (There were a lot more pages there until recently, but someone removed all of them.) I suspect that contacting User:Voice of All about this would make more sense than turning off a config setting with unclear meaning that's been on for over a year; I can't make an editprotected request without being clear on what, if anything, the request would do, and it just seems too likely that this may be the wrong solution to any given problem. --ais523 14:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, it does not revert then all. It looks for certain IPs/open ports or users making certain types of edits when they either have very few or have only edited pages that are also watched.  Voice -of- All  21:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Disabled 14/11/07
I have asked an admin to disable this at the request of Domas (our database administrator) because it is requesting a page (Special:Contributions/newbies) at a rate of one request per second - the page itself requires 0.5 seconds to load, and this is causing a performance issue. Chatlog below: 09:49 wtf. 09:49 | 1683747204 | wikiuser   | 10.0.2.99:55000      | enwiki | Query   | 1       | Sorting result                                                        | /* IndexPager::reallyDoQuery (ContribsPager) VoABot II */ SELECT page_namespace,page_title,page_is_ | 09:51 ah, newbies 09:51 WTF. 09:52 kill. 09:52 it is doing that like every few seconds 09:53 do we have blocks for reads? 09:53 =) 09:54 AaronSchulz: ^^^ WAKE UP 09:54 BEFORE ME KILL YOU 09:54 you're spoiling my statistics! 10:01 can anyone edit this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:VoABot_II/admin_panel.js&action=edit 10:01 and disable the bot? :) 10:02 we could put 'newbie' bit into RC 10:02 of people really use that 10:02 *if 10:03 < Werdna> domas: I'm harrassing enwiki admins 10:03 well, not that urgent 10:03 just I think that 'newbies' query every second isn't something nice to do 10:04 because it is 0.5s query by itself Please contact domas or another senior developer/systems administrator before re-enabling the bot &mdash; Andrew Garrett (Werdna) @ 124.189.64.31 10:05, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

request
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"AOl" in the heading on scanning AOL addrs is incorrectly capitalized. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 17:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Changed (but not really worth an editprotected request). &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 21:22, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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1st line comment should be "will shut down", not "while shut down". 68.39.174.238 (talk) 23:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Not done. There's no need to edit the comments like this. VoA presumably has this page on watchlist and will notice if you request changes. Editprotected requests aren't needed for minor things like this. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 21:12, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

some fixups
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// Should ALL IP edits be scanned? (skips stuff) var SCAN_ALL_IPS_BOT=0; --> shouldn't this be set to 1 to allow proxy detection???

// Do not revert more than X times var MAX_BOT_REVERTS=2; ---> shouldn't this be set to 3 because there is a 3-revert rule?

/////////////Friendly bots///////////// var ALLIES_AVOID_BOT = '|CorenSearchBot|ClueBot|AntiVandalBot|Xenophon (bot)|Werdnabot2|T-850 Robotic Assistant|MartinBot|SgtDrini|VoABot II|XLinkBot|AntiAbuseBot|SoxBot III';

add User:ClueBot_IV (Open Proxy Clerk Bot) to friend list as they share a common goal
 * Please use editprotected instead.  m o n o   17:43, 8 June 2010 (UTC)