Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.

If you want AnomieBOT to do something, please ask at User talk:AnomieBOT. Thanks.

This user's talk page has archives: 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

I would have preferred you to tag this as ((Historical)). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:36, 25 November 2015 (UTC).[reply]

What history? It existed for 38 minutes in 2009 and 5 hours 37 minutes yesterday. Anomie⚔ 03:54, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK I am confusing it with another template. Thanks. R.F. 2015-11-26Z15:58

Hi Anomie,

your bot creates every month a number of cleanup categories, including the "Use XXX English from" ones and the "Category:Use mdy dates from" and "Category:Use dmy dates from".

I have just changed all existing ones to use other templates, as these aren't cleanup categories like the other ones (they don't indicate problems with the articles, just things that may be checked for consistency: maintenance, not cleanup).

I hope this doesn't create too much extra work for you. Everything will still work if you don't change the bot, but if possible it would be nicer if you could do the following (examples given for next month):

Category:Use mdy dates from December 2015 should only consist of ((Mdy category))

Category:Use dmy dates from December 2015 should only consist of ((Dmy category))

Category:Use Pakistani English from December 2015 should only consist of ((English variant category))

This last one applies to American English, Australian English, British (Oxford) English, British English, Canadian English, Hong Kong English, Indian English, Irish English, Jamaican English, New Zealand English, Pakistani English, Scottish English, Singapore English, and South African English.

Thank you! Fram (talk) 14:59, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Fram: AnomieBOT creates dated subcategories for categories that are subcategories of Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month and Category:Wikipedia categories sorted by month. Make sure that whatever you did left the parent categories in one of those two and it'll be fine. Anomie⚔ 00:55, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, they are in the first of those. I'll keep an eye on them to see what happens in December, if it goes wrong I'll contact you again. Thanks! Fram (talk) 08:15, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see that e.g. Category:Use Pakistani English from December 2015 has been created, but not with the new template (as explained above) but with the old "monthly clean up category". This should, if possible, no longer be the case. Is there an easy way to solve this for the future? Or is it just that I was a bit too late with my request here? Fram (talk) 08:18, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Fram: You can tell Anomie to reprogram the bot so that it will create dmy, mdy, and English variants categories with ((Mdy category)), ((Dmy category)), and ((English variant category)) starting from January 2016. Also, you should create Category:Mdy categories, Category:Dmy categories, and Category:English variant categories. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 04:00, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I misunderstood what you were saying above. I'd rather not have a manually-updated list of categories that need arbitrary different text in the bot's code. Any suggestions on how to do this sensibly instead of me having to make and constantly update a big list or have weird pattern-matching going on? Anomie⚔ 13:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One idea would be a configuration template on the parent category page, not too different from templates like ((User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis)). The challenge there would be that the category pages aren't watched like talk pages that need archiving are, so it would be easier for someone to screw around with things unnoticed. Anomie⚔ 13:17, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have to think about this. it's no disaster if your bot continues to create these like it used to (it still works, just isn't optimal), so no need to change anything at the moment. If I think of a better solution, I'll drop a note. Fram (talk) 15:33, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! You said:"Date for maintenance tags is the date the tag was added, not some other random date" -> tag means the template, not the text what marked? Fauvirt (talk) 13:50, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ups... as I see I unmake it anyway... but if you answer, i thank you! Fauvirt (talk) 14:04, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Yes, that is correct. Anomie⚔ 14:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Fauvirt (talk) 14:10, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The bot notice needs an update. WP:NFCR is closed by consensus, so WP:FFD should be used instead. --George Ho (talk) 05:06, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Anomie⚔ 12:59, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, when I add User:Anomie/previewtemplatelastmod.js to m:User:Redrose64/global.js, it works on English Wikipedia, but it doesn't work at other language Wikipedias, nor at commons: or even on meta: itself. I have a feeling that this worked at some point (otherwise I wouldn't have left it in place), but it certainly doesn't work now. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:25, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing to do with the script itself. That code snippet tries to load https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=w%3Aen%3AUser%3AAnomie%2Fpreviewtemplatelastmod.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript, which redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:User:Anomie/previewtemplatelastmod.js?action=raw&ctype=text%2Fjavascript, which is triggering some security check and fails to load. Anomie⚔ 16:16, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anomie,

In the National Herald Case, here the duplicate and unnecessary content has been added by the user "Rao_Ravindra" who is going in edit war, old content deleted without any proper reason. It seems that the media highlights of the case in India makes it bit sensitive. I and user "Capankajsmilyo" have been able to restore the content as much as possible but again the same issue. My request is that please look into the unnecessary edits going on ASAP and if possible add to it "semi-protected" sort of mode for a particular time to prevent it from vandalism.

Thanks,

Work2win (talk) 14:51, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Living people

Hello, Anomie. I am currently trying to colour links of articles within the Living people category. How exactly can I do this? I tried .living-people as with .spoken-articles, but it did not work. Help, please. Many thanks. Neve-selbert 06:58, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

.spoken-articles works? I wonder why I did that.

Try adding LinkClassifier.cats['living-people'] = [ 'Category:Living people' ].sort(); to your common.js, after the line that includes linkclassifier.js. That should make your CSS rule work when you put it back. Anomie⚔ 12:24, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The rule is still is not working. Neve-selbert 21:59, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. I have no idea how to convince it to reliably run that bit of code after linkclassifier.js is loaded. Anomie⚔ 01:42, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is there really no way to customize links in the Category:Living people in a different colour? How did you manage with the other categories that you had succeeded with, in the past? Neve-selbert 02:55, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It could be done by adding the category into the module itself, but I'd rather not bloat it with every category someone somewhere wants. The better solution is to figure out how to make it individually configurable. Anomie⚔ 22:03, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any ideas, or should I seek help elsewhere? Neve-selbert 05:24, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Neve-selbert: I've made an adjustment to the script. Try making an edit like this to your common.js. Anomie⚔ 15:45, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are no worries now; I managed to do it myself creating my own, slightly modified linkclassifier.js. Thank-you, and a Happy Christmas. Neve-selbert 21:41, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Broken section anchors

Hello again, Anomie. I was just wondering whether or not it would be possible to colourise links that direct to broken section anchors. For example, List of rulers of the Pitcairn Islands#Local Heads of Government (since 1790) is a link to an existent article but a non-existent section (and clicking on such a link would only link you to the article, and no specific section in particular), as the section is properly titled as: Local Heads of Government (1790–present), so I would like internal links such as the one aforementioned to be coloured differently in order for me to quickly identify and subsequently mend them. I am on a mission to fix the broken section anchors (found here and here) I come into conflict with, and I believe that colourising them would greatly help me in succeeding in doing so. Many thanks.--Neve–selbert 00:55, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Since that would require loading the content of every linked-to page, I don't think so. Anomie⚔ 14:26, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This should not be dated automatically. Just leave it alone for now and I will sort it out. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

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	Hello, I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Thanks for all your help on the 'pedia!    –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 21:40, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy New Year!

Anomie,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 11:35, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Awesome script, wish I had known about it sooner.

I created User:Anomie/ajaxpreview for you, mostly because it makes it easy for editors to get to their js page. Your instructions in the script should say common.js instead of monobook.js since not everyone uses the monobook skin. NE Ent 16:58, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks. Anomie⚔ 17:00, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unable to login via my bot. Bot is written in Perl. I've read the changes they made to authentication this month, but I'm confused. Was there anything you had to do to be able to handle the new login procedure? Bgwhite (talk) 19:18, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Are you using LWP::UserAgent's cookie handling, or something else? LWP::UserAgent works for AnomieBOT, but if you're using something else you might be having problems with properly handling the Set-Cookie headers. See phab:T124252 for more discussion on the kinds of cookie issues people have run into. Anomie⚔ 20:52, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not. I'm only using MediaWiki::API and MediaWiki::Bot. Could I see where in your code you implement loggin in? Bgwhite (talk) 21:53, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My source code is at User:AnomieBOT/source/AnomieBOT/API.pm, look for sub login. Anomie⚔ 01:12, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I won't bore you with lame excuses for my propensity to use baroque homebrew tools in preference to well-supported standard ones, but I have to say it was initially rather spooky, and then quite serendipitously delightful, for you to have taken it upon yourself to tell me exactly what my baroque homebrew tool (that I wouldn't have expected you to even know the existence of, let alone be paying such close attention to) is doing wrong, before I myself had managed to roll up my sleeves to debug it at all! (So were you referring to me when you said "One bot had a different bug..."?) Thanks again! —Steve Summit (talk) 21:55, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, it was someone else. As for how I found your bot, you linked to it, and then the bot's user page on Wiktionary described that it used that. Anomie⚔ 01:14, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anomie, do you know if this issue was ever looked in to? Still not able to click "Next X" above a certain number of links :( Sam Walton (talk) 21:13, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

gerrit:261325 exists to fix the bugs, but still has issues. There will still be a maximum limit. Anomie⚔ 23:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I have started to nominate some of the redirects for speedy deletion. Am I doing things right here? I've noticed that there aren't any other notifications for CSD nominations on his page, despite mine. I use Twinkle so all notices go straight to his talk page automatically, and it is quicker that way. Just making sure I'm not making any stupid mistakes. Best, --Ches (talk) 19:04, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't know. I just created those lists because someone asked. Anomie⚔ 02:29, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. I think I'm doing things correctly now because an admin has started to delete some of the redirects I nominated for speedy deletion. Regards, --Ches (talk) 11:09, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anomie. As of this writing AnomieBOT has made 775 null edits to the table of conflict-of-interest edit requests. This has messed up all the actual dates of the backlog; edit requests made back in September are now being marked as requested in February. I would appreciate it if you could fix this issue and rollback the page to the last good version. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 23:42, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The useless edits (not at all null edits, apparently) were because there were several entries with the same timestamp which it was putting in arbitrary order. That should be fixed now.

The lost timestamps are possibly a cause, not an effect. I'm not sure what exactly was making it fail there, but I think I have that fixed too. Unfortunately, the only way to restore the old timestamps would be manually looking up the correct timestamps and then manually editing the bot's database. Chances are it would be more efficient to just take action on the requests. Anomie⚔ 01:25, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

They're not null edits, because null edits change nothing and leave no trail in the page history or user contributions. They do force reparsing of all transcluded components, remaking of the link table entries and update the categories. See for example the contributions of the highly prolific Joe's Null Bot (talk · contribs). --Redrose64 (talk) 10:09, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I wasn't sure what to call them. Perhaps just 0-byte edits would have been clearer; in any case the issue (except for the time stamps) has now been fixed. Altamel (talk) 02:33, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anomie, I'm sure you're busy, but it could help things if you could have your bot do some maintenance work on the Neelix lists. In particular, any page that is a red link, any page listed at RfD and any page recently retargeted by not-Neelix could be bot-removed so us humans don't have to manage. Let me know if this is something you'd be able to do. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 06:36, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

 – Everything is fine now --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 20:07, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Maybe I could ask for a favor? Could you take a look at this? I assume, it will be pretty easy for you. Didn't found anything on Internet, that could help me in this case (giving destination URL for many links, not for just one). --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 00:22, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm the current chair over at MEDCOM and I rejected Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Vladimir Putin this morning. The bot removed the rejection template and adjusted the category, but didn't remove the case from the pending case list or notify the parties of the rejection. Could you figure out what happened and fix the pending case list? I'm afraid to do that for fear of breaking the bot even worse. I'm going to go ahead and notify the parties manually. I have a request in to the committee members who are admins (I'm not an admin) to delete that page to preserve the privilege of mediation and it might disappear before you have the chance to see it, so all I'm really looking for is a fix of the pending case page. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 18:12, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update: The bod did notify the parties (or maybe you fixed it so that it did), so the only thing in issue is now the pending case list. I'd note that the list shows two pending cases (one of which, Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Undue weight and original research in the Causes of the War of the Pacific, is indeed pending, but it also shows, just above them "→ There are currently no open requests for mediation. Please see above if you wish to file one." Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 18:28, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update 2: Everything seems to be fixed. If you did that, thanks; if I was simply too impatient, sorry about the bother. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 22:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't do anything. The slight delay in notification was probably due to some database lag around that time that I see noted in the bot's logs. I don't know why there was a longer delay before it was removed from the pending case list, unless MediaWiki was a little slow about updating the category links table for some reason. Anomie⚔ 02:39, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I've been playing around with a template, and am stuck. Would you be so kind as to take a look? The (provisional) template is ((Sonnet/sandbox)) and my test instance of its use is User:Phil_wink/Sonnet_Uniformity_Act#Synopsis. The bug is around the parameter "S" (for "source"), which you'll find at the very bottom of the template, and which is responsible for housing the citation within the inline reference. The template works perfectly on its own page (e.g. the default citation appears in the reflist). However, when transcluded, it displays the default even when "S" is given a new value. I'm assuming this is because the value I'm trying to assign to "S" is itself a template (((cite web))), but I haven't found how to do this properly. Any advice? I don't know if it makes a difference, but when this bug is resolved, I'm inclined to put the whole <ref>...</ref> bit inside an #ifexpr: statement to completely remove it if it's not supplied. Thanks for your attention. Phil wink (talk) 03:24, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @Phil wink: I think the issue was the <ref>...</ref>. I changed it to ((#if:(({S|))}|((#tag:ref|(({S|...))))))}. — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:22, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great! Thank you, benevolent lurker. Phil wink (talk) 14:25, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

	Thank you for the source code.
	Thank you for the source code, But what language is it using. Please help. Pakelectrical (talk) 12:05, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]