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Missing[edit]

Hi. You are now listed as missing. Should you ever return or choose not to be listed, you are welcome to remove your name. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:36, 28 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Chris troutman, and anyone else who comes across this note. Thanks very much for your concern about me, and for continuing to hold the fort on the wiki.

It's obviously been a very long time since I last edited, and having had a lot of activity on-wiki prior to that for some months, I recognise fully that having disappeared so suddenly was potentially worrying and concerning. Whilst editing Wikipedia is, of course, in theory not something one should have to make a specific hours commitment to, in practice I ought to have been more attentive to it since, or at least sent a message explaining where things were. I'm sorry for any stress or upset I've caused anyone.

For so long as Yapperbot continues to work, I will try and continue to maintain it (in particular, I've recently received an email about having to migrate to a newer version of the Toolforge host it's currently on) - but I can't promise to be dedicating a huge amount of time to it. I might well end up having time to edit again at some point in the future, and can certainly see myself making occasional small edits, but I don't think it'll happen in the near future unfortunately.

If anyone is interested in the personal "lore" as to why I suddenly disappeared, I've written it up below - but I imagine it won't be of interest to many people! A particular thank you also should go out to @Sdkb and ProcrastinatingReader: I've seen both of you have said some lovely things about me in my absence, and thanks as well to Proc for picking up the Yapperbot Uncurrenter task - I had no idea that that had even stopped working, to be honest!

Where did Naypta go? (The Lore)
In 2020, during the first wave of the COVID pandemic, A levels and GCSE exams in the UK were cancelled due to students being unable to safely sit them. At the time, I was a final year A level student, and had taken up Wikipedia editing during the lockdown as a way to continue my studies and keep expanding my knowledge before coming to university. My intention at the time was very much to continue editing into university. The cancellation of the exams, however, led to the 2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, in which Ofqual, the Government agency in the UK responsible for setting qualifications, developed an algorithm for determining what grades a student "would have got" had they sat the exams. Unfortunately for all of us, this algorithm was not only ill-thought-through, but patently biased and dangerous. So much so that, at the start of August 2020, I realised that it would need challenging, and began to use my time to do just that. My edits stopped because, working with the legal nonprofit Foxglove, I was setting out to challenge the algorithm in the courts, which eventually got some fair media coverage (perhaps making me qualify as a WP:BLP1E!) We ultimately didn't have to go through with the court process in full as the Government U-turned of its own accord a matter of hours before we were due to file our case formally in the courts, but the events still turned a lot of what I was doing in the rest of my life upside down, and effectively dominated the next couple of months of my life. By the point that the fallout from that was over, another COVID wave was striking the UK, and I knew I wanted to do something more to help respond to it - so I began volunteering with St John Ambulance, the UK's first aid charity and volunteer health reserve, where I'm still giving pretty much all my volunteering time at the moment in both a clinical and a management role. All of those things put together really didn't leave a lot of time for Wikipedia, and every day that passed I found it more difficult to write this explanation of what had happened - it didn't occur to me to do so at all for a couple of months, but beyond that it kept feeling as though it were too late! That probably sounds ridiculous, but it's the truth :) Also, if you're reading this all the way to the end, thank you, but you evidently find me a lot more interesting than I do!

Where did Naypta go? (The Lore)

In 2020, during the first wave of the COVID pandemic, A levels and GCSE exams in the UK were cancelled due to students being unable to safely sit them. At the time, I was a final year A level student, and had taken up Wikipedia editing during the lockdown as a way to continue my studies and keep expanding my knowledge before coming to university. My intention at the time was very much to continue editing into university.

The cancellation of the exams, however, led to the 2020 UK GCSE and A-Level grading controversy, in which Ofqual, the Government agency in the UK responsible for setting qualifications, developed an algorithm for determining what grades a student "would have got" had they sat the exams. Unfortunately for all of us, this algorithm was not only ill-thought-through, but patently biased and dangerous. So much so that, at the start of August 2020, I realised that it would need challenging, and began to use my time to do just that. My edits stopped because, working with the legal nonprofit Foxglove, I was setting out to challenge the algorithm in the courts, which eventually got some fair media coverage (perhaps making me qualify as a WP:BLP1E!)

We ultimately didn't have to go through with the court process in full as the Government U-turned of its own accord a matter of hours before we were due to file our case formally in the courts, but the events still turned a lot of what I was doing in the rest of my life upside down, and effectively dominated the next couple of months of my life. By the point that the fallout from that was over, another COVID wave was striking the UK, and I knew I wanted to do something more to help respond to it - so I began volunteering with St John Ambulance, the UK's first aid charity and volunteer health reserve, where I'm still giving pretty much all my volunteering time at the moment in both a clinical and a management role.

All of those things put together really didn't leave a lot of time for Wikipedia, and every day that passed I found it more difficult to write this explanation of what had happened - it didn't occur to me to do so at all for a couple of months, but beyond that it kept feeling as though it were too late! That probably sounds ridiculous, but it's the truth :) Also, if you're reading this all the way to the end, thank you, but you evidently find me a lot more interesting than I do!

With hugs, and with another heartfelt apology for my sudden disappearance: Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 23:33, 5 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I hope you are okay. —usernamekiran (talk) 18:20, 9 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I miss you Chris. I hate being at my dads. 2600:100E:A101:A79C:51C4:DC60:D9F5:DB92 (talk) 04:35, 18 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm not sure how I missed this note, but I just thought of you recently while looking into current events templating stuff, and came here to find this. It's cool to know what you've been up to, and while I hope you find time to return to Wikipedia-ing in the future, it sounds like you've been doing important work, and it's good to know that you are well! I recently undertook a project making holiday greetings for Wikipedians with personal AI artworks, and I have an extra after one recipient declined their card, so I'd like to give it to you (below). Cheers, ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 00:41, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A new year's greeting

❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️

Hi Naypta! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we enter 2024. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. :) Take care, and thanks for all you've done to make Wikipedia better!

Cheers,
((u|Sdkb)) ^talk

Solstice Celebration for Naypta, 2023, DALL·E 3.

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Note: The vibes are winter solsticey. If you're in the southern hemisphere, oops, apologies.

((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 00:41, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Coordinating for the upcoming EP elections[edit]

Would you be interested in working on drafts that anticipate the upcoming EP elections? I'm trying to gather editors ahead of time, so we can have an established format and idea of what should be included. I'd like to work on:

1. An article about the new European Parliament, to the Ninth European Parliament --> Medium

2. New article which updates the Collage itself, similar to the von der Leyen Commission article --> Large

3.The European Commission article will need to be updated when the new commission --> Large

4. An update on President of the European Commission --> Small

5. Update the High Representative of the European Union --> Small

Let me know if you are interested! Chefs-kiss (talk) 16:51, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Why are you asking someone who's not edited Wikipedia for almost a year? * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:36, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Regarding Yapperbot[edit]

Your bot removed me from Wikiproject India members, stating that I haven't made any edits to the English Wikipedia in over 1 year. I kindly request you make sure your bot working properly. You can see my contributions also I joined in August this year in English Wikipedia and am making edits. Greenneutron12 (talk) 15:47, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Slowing down WP:FRS[edit]

We have been talking at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment#FRS bot speed about slowing down Yapperbot to once a day (it's currently once an hour). I've been assuming that this would be an easy change for you to make. If you have a few minutes sometime, would you please do that? Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:30, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Re:Yapperbot RfC issue[edit]

Would it be excessively rude to ask why it took anyone this long to realize that this was happening? If something happened to, say, ClueBot NG, I imagine it would be noticed and solved much more rapidly.

Unapologetically miffed, RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 09:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@RadioactiveBoulevardier: what are you talking about? What is the this that is happening? Mathglot (talk) 11:31, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Mathglot: See Special:Permalink/1199913358.

Courtesy ping: WhatamIdoing. Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 12:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@RadioactiveBoulevardier, we've known about it for weeks. "Realizing it" and "being able to fix it" are unfortunately different things. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:40, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Aha, thanks. Don't expect a reply from Naypta. Afaicr, they left over a year ago. Mathglot (talk) 06:45, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]