User talk:Wikisource-bot

Bot is creating hundreds of meaningless edits

e.g. Why is this? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:52, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

See this discussion in the Scriptorium. The edits are serving a purpose. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:11, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

@Koavf: It is purposeful in updating the old style storage of the page status to the new style status, per EP's suggested read. AND we still need to do the other page status. On the upside I believe that I have found a means to do a better edit summary. :-) — billinghurst sDrewth 02:25, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: Thanks for the explanation. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:38, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Yes, please do use a more intelligible edit summary--maybe link to the above discussion? Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:38, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Touch edits and notifications

Can the touch edits be set as "minor" edits? Those of us who get emails when non-minor changes are made to our watchlist are getting a ton of messages right now. – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 22:09, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

@Philosopher: Not sure, though I can try that with the next bot run, not with the existing run. I would suggest tweaking your watchlist settings to ignore the bot, well at least temporarily. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:51, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

yeah, watchlist is basically useless. have to use other workflow methods. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 02:38, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Please set these as minor edits! I just woke up to about 300 emails, apparently all about edits where no visible change was made. Mx. Granger (talk) 00:28, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

@Mx. Granger: this job has been running for weeks, and will run for numbers more, probably best to change your preferences to not show bot edits to pages on your watchlist — billinghurst sDrewth 04:20, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate the suggestion, but it's best to mark them as minor edits. Edits like these—superficial changes that are so insignificant as not to require any review—are exactly what the minor edit option is for. Mx. Granger (talk) 14:44, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I hear you, and as said previously, when we start the next run, that is what I/we will do. Restarting at this point of the run is not my favoured option for the obvious reason. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:44, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

I see, I didn't realize this was still the same run that was going on in July. Mx. Granger (talk) 15:23, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Two questions:

• Have you confirmed that a null edit (on both the page and its index) isn't sufficient?
• Did you talk to the devs about whether they could set up a job to re-parse these pages or whatever is needed, sans bot? (Please ping me.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:47, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

This came from WS:S (see specific note on obverse page), went to phabricator for discussion and this is the solution in play, and the end of the trail, not the beginning. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:14, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Not running since July 2020?

Looks like the last edits by the bot were 10 July. Anybody want to give it a little kick to get it going again? --Xover (talk) 06:31, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

@Xover: script errors in conversion to python3. I have lodged phabricator tickets for fixes to the scripts. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:06, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Ah, thanks! Is this phab:T264731? If so, are we sure the box is actually running Python 3.x (what does python --version say?)? JJMC89 committed a patch to archivebot.py on July 11, adding that function annotation (which will not work in Python 2.x), and which fits time-wise, tagged as Update archivebot for py3. It seems likely that that change affected this somehow.

Also, Mpaa works on pywikibot as I recall, and Inductiveload is a Python-head (I try not to judge). Perhaps one of you has an idea? --Xover (talk) 12:12, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

My fault. "python3" !!! I made the change in my personal scripts but didn't flow them through to the bot. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:58, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Done Ran the scripts and updated the cronjob. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:59, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikisource-bot activity @ar.wikisource

Hello Wikisource-bot, hope you are fine. Regarding bot activity @ar.wikisource, and according to discussion Here,it was indicated that the activity in the project should be continued, or a bot flag remove request will be orderd after a week of this notification. Thanks for all your contributions. Regards --Mohanad (talk) 20:05, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mohanad: Looking at the contribs it looks like Wikisource-bot only ever performed 99 edits on arWS, all of them touch edits within a single work, and all of them on 7 August 2018. That looks like an ad hoc request to fix some problem or other. The admin setting the bot flag on the account was Avicenno so they may be able to recall the circumstances.

In any case, it does not look like Wikisource-bot has any ongoing or recent tasks on arWS so removing its bot flag should be entirely uncontroversial. Xover (talk) 07:43, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your efforts in Arabic Wikisource. The flag was removed. Best regards--Avicenno (talk) 05:57, 10 March 2024 (UTC)