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![]() | According to news sources, Google Talk dropped support for XMPP federation in May 2014, meaning that Google Talk servers no longer communicate with other XMPP servers. WatchlistBot became unavailable to Google Talk users at that time. Current Google Talk users are encouraged to migrate their WatchlistBot settings to another XMPP account. (Users can contact me if they would like me to perform the migration for them, as large watchlists can be tedious to migrate by hand.) |
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WLB currently capitalizes the first letter of every article name, even on Wiktionary. This makes it impossible to watch an article on Wiktionary when it begins with a lower-case letter. --Chris (talk) 21:24, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
I see there are variables that can be set to change the language and project in Watchlistbot. My question is whether I can watch different projects with the same account? Right now I want to watch some users on Commons, but I don't know if Watchlistbot is capable of this bifurcated sensing or if I have to select one set of variables and go with it. Elizium23 (talk) 08:34, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
As per IRC, I suggest if possible to have the ability to set a time after which a watchlist entry expires and is automatically removed. Very useful with user entries, where you want to keep track of it for maybe 2-3 hours or maybe 6, but not forever. Snowolf How can I help?
It would be nice to have the bot write the time of when a page/user was watchlisted, data would be then displayed thru the web interface. Snowolf How can I help? 03:41, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
I suggest having some one-letter aliases for the most common commands, it would really help me immensely. I propose something on these lines
l list w watch w u watch user w a watch article u unwatch u u unwatch user u a unwatch article
It would really help a looooot. Snowolf How can I help? 04:03, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
I believe that I am being stalked by someone on Wikipedia via the use of your bot. This is extremely irritating and is also very stange and weird behavior on the part of this person. What can be done? Albert14nx05y (talk) 10:18, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
watchlistbot=# select * from watchlist_editor where editor = 'Albert14nx05y'; user | language | project | editor | comment | date_added_str | enabled ------+----------+---------+--------+---------+----------------+--------- (0 rows)
Whenever I try to access the web interface, I get a 502 Bad Gateway error from nginx. —Darkwind (talk) 07:19, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Do added entries expire at some point? I've noticed articles I've added in the past have dropped off the list. --NeilN talk to me 22:17, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
I've set up a watchlist, but I'm getting no alerts at all. Why might that be? Logs do show changes since I set up the alerts.--Elvey(t•c) 19:54, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
--Elvey(t•c) 19:54, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Hey, any chance you can extend the bot to cover template space? And I can't tell you how much easier this bot makes it to pick up long term abusers. So helpful! --NeilN talk to me 00:45, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
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would watch ((unsigned)) for example. --Chris (talk) 03:58, 25 May 2019 (UTC)Tired sending it a message with both web clients and with desktop clients and it dosnt say anything and shows as offline. LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 15:40, 21 December 2021 (UTC)