Wikipedia talk:Bot activity monitor

Notifications
I haven't been following this too closely, but I've heard that notifications are coming. Is this implemented and if so how do I sign up. I would appreciate not having to worry abut PearBOT going down without it being noticed again. --Trialpears (talk) 13:44, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @Trialpears: Yes. This was implemented. You can add Trialpears parameter to the  template that defines the bot task on Bot activity monitor/Configurations. You'll get a talk page message similar to this. (Or for less intrusive notifications, you set up a talk page for the bot, watchlist it, then use PearBOT). –  SD0001  (talk) 15:59, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

mediawiki deprecation 10/7
FTR: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Deprecation_of_legacy_API_token_parameters —¿philoserf? (talk) 02:03, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

FireflyBot
Do you know why FireflyBot is listed as "Not seen in more than 6 months" even though the bot is still running? * Pppery * it has begun... 21:10, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
 * @Pppery it's an issue with piped link. This was the only summary_regex on the page with a piped link - and it's complicated. We can't just use  because the pipe character changes the meaning of the regex. If we escape it as   then the template parser (both MediaWiki's and the bot's) will think the summary_regex ended when the   is encountered. If we escape it as   the template parsing will work but then the regex matching will obviously fail. Using   will I think work for the bot, but it will cause a red link to oddly show up on the configs page. So for now I changed the summary_regex to not use a piped link. –  SD0001  (talk) 06:12, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Bot activity monitor config
Hi! I think I screwed up my bot activity monitor config for the task "Notify users of DYK nominations"... the bot made this edit with a summary matching the one I specified, I think, but it still says the bot hasn't edited for that task in six months. I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:53, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * @Enterprisey see the section above. It's the infamous piped link problem. As of now, the only solution is to write the summary_regex without including a piped link. – SD0001  (talk) 07:30, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh... Enterprisey (talk!) 07:34, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Anchor
Would it be possible to have anchors (like something with the HTML id "EnterpriseyBot") on the first task of a bot's name? I'd like to link to the part of the table with my bot's tasks. (Or otherwise have a convenient place that shows just my bot's tasks - I think an anchor would be the easiest way to do that, though.) Enterprisey (talk!) 22:12, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * @Enterprisey I hacked up a quick lua script that I think is more fitting for the usecase:
 * – SD0001  (talk) 13:04, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Ooooh! That's magical. Thanks! Enterprisey (talk!) 21:23, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * – SD0001  (talk) 13:04, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Ooooh! That's magical. Thanks! Enterprisey (talk!) 21:23, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Bots from other languages
Nice tool. I was asked by a moderator to help him with a bot @Catabot, I'm trying to see if it is active and I wonder if it is possible to add it here and track changes in Wikipedia in Catalan. I don't see as much information there about that bot and how it works, where the code is and I am interested... Thanks! Dròpol (talk) 21:57, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The bot only tracks changes made on this wiki. You could set up a similar bot for another wiki – though SDZeroBot code is a monorepo shared with other bot tasks' code – most of it is in https://github.com/siddharthvp/SDZeroBot/tree/master/bot-monitor. – SD0001  (talk) 17:49, 12 December 2023 (UTC)