Wikipedia:Bots/News/202205

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Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Whether it blips, bleeps, or breaks, you can count on the Bots Newsletter to give you the hottest scoop.

The last issue, picking up from a long hiatus, covered 2019 and 2020; the catching-up will be completed in this issue, which covers all of 2021.

2021

January
 * ✅ BattyBot 54, Dreamy Jazz Bot 6, WikiCleanerBot 24, WikiCleanerBot 25 ·Image-Symbol wait old.svg AWMBot
 * Several new bot tasks were approved in January. Dreamy Jazz Bot 6, following up on a bot noticeboard thread from earlier, was approved to put on pre-existing user talk pages of users beginning with "Vanished user" or "Renamed user" with or without the space. BattyBot 54 was approved to change   to   on about a thousand articles; meanwhile, WikiCleanerBot 24 and 25 were approved to clean up unnecessary   tags.
 * Cyberbot II was blocked on January 17 after a malfunction caused it to go bonkers and start blanking pages. In the discussion afterwards, some noted that its shutoff flag had not been functioning properly.

February While this task has quite strong support from those editors involved in template side of CS1|2 issues, there has been growing pushback from the community at large, and it has reached a point where their valid concerns are clearly no longer just an inconvenience suffered by those with large watchlists. On the plus side, all but 5 of the 40 un-hyphenated parameters have been essentially eliminated. However, there is still the issue of the those five parameters: it will take approximately four months for  to be replaced at current edit rates, and 1-2 months for the other four. This, understandably, is unacceptable to many.
 * ✅ ShortDescBot 2 · Usernamekiran BOT 4
 * Cyberpower678 unblocked Cyberbot II after fixing the bug which had been causing it to blank pages.
 * The December 9 bot noticeboard thread about Monkbot's Task 18 came to an end. Closer Primefac placed the task on hold, saying:

Thus, until such matters can be decided, the bot task will be put on hold and a CENT-advertised RFC started on the deprecation of these parameters to hopefully put the matter to rest.
 * ShortDescBot was approved for a second task, in which it was planned to add 210,000 short descriptions to organism articles, and improve 2,000 existing short descriptions for moths.

March
 * ✅ IznoBot 3, BattyBot 53 · CommonsCategoryBot, MusikBot 16
 * March was a relatively quiet month. Two bot tasks were granted approval by the BAG: IznoBot 3, to make NavFrame uses accessible in userspace (by replacing  with  ), and BattyBot 53, to update maintenance categories (removing Category:Year of birth missing or Category:Year of birth missing (living people) where year of birth exists, and removing Category:Date of birth missing or Category:Date of birth missing (living people) where full date of birth exists).

2021
April
 * ✅ MusikBot 17, Dreamy Jazz Bot 7, FireflyBot II, WikiCleanerBot 26 · DannyS712 bot IV 73 ·  DaxServerBot I ·Image-Symbol wait old.svg YTStatsBot
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 * Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_15
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 * On Meta, Martin Urbanec's global bot policy RfC was closed with "clear consensus that a change is needed, however, it's not clear what is its correct form". Closer Tks4fish added the following notes to the close:
 * 1) The discussion will run for 2 weeks.
 * 2) The bot operator must demonstrate the bot task is welcomed on multiple Wikimedia projects. A good way to show it is to be flagged on 5 or more wikis for a single task.
 * 3) The operator should make sure to adhere to the wiki's preference as related to the use of the bot flag.
 * 4) The discussion will be publicized via MassMessage (to be created), where interested community members and wikis can be subscribed.

May
 * ✅ FireflyBot 12, BattyBot 55, IznoBot 3B, TolBot 3, WOSlinkerBot 7, Mz7 (bot), TolBot, Cewbot 7, SdkbBot, BattyBot 56, MalnadachBot · LemonadeBot ·  TolBot 2, PrimeBOT 35 ·Image-Symbol wait old.svg DeltaQuadBot 9
 * Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_15

June
 * ✅ AnomieBOT III 7, SDZeroBot 11, SDZeroBot 9, VRTS Migration Bot, EarwigBot 21, SDZeroBot 10, PearBOT II 12 · DoggoBot, K.Kapil77 Bot, CountyBot ·  PrimeBOT 36, Uhaas bot
 * Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_15
 * Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_15
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July
 * ✅ BattyBot 57, BattyBot 59, MalnadachBot 2, EnterpriseyBot 11, MalnadachBot 3, TolBot 1A, William Avery Bot 4, PearBOT II 11, TolBot 5 · BattyBot 58 ·  DoggoBot 3
 * Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_15

August
 * ✅ WikiCleanerBot 27, ProcBot 8, WOSlinkerBot 8, WOSlinkerBot 9, MalnadachBot 4, WOSlinkerBot 10, MalnadachBot 5, TolBot 4, William Avery Bot 3, WOSlinkerBot 11, WOSlinkerBot 12, MalnadachBot 6, WOSlinkerBot 13 · AWMBot, ProcBot 9, SWinxyTheBot, HooptyBot ·  PearBOT II 10, BHGbot 8

September
 * ✅ TNTBot, WOSlinkerBot 14, BattyBot 60, FireflyBot 13, MalnadachBot 7, MalnadachBot 8, WOSlinkerBot 15, MalnadachBot 9, Qwerfjkl (bot), 'zinbot, GreenC bot 20 · Q28bot 1, Cewbot 9
 * Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_15
 * Bot_requests

October
 * ✅ FrescoBot 15, GeneralBotability 2, MalnadachBot 10
 * Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_15
 * Bot_requests

November
 * ✅ Qwerfjkl (bot) 2, RottenBot, Cewbot 10, Ahechtbot 7, BattyBot 61, Cewbot 8, Dexbot 12, Monkbot 19, MalnadachBot 11, WOSlinkerBot 16, BattyBot 63, WOSlinkerBot 17, FireflyBot II 2

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