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Top 25

Well, of course some help is welcome! Specially that once Andrew.g's data fell, there was also the extra work of going through the WMF tool a lot to compile 25 entries. (the lack of people to write the reports - some are MIA, others stopped answering - is another deal entirely) Anything to make this easier and recall the good days where the Report could be done early in the week. igordebraga ≠ 22:08, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Igordebraga great! This report should now be updating with fresh daily counts (for the previous day) every day at around 17:00 UTC. I believe that soon I should be able to update the report so that it gives weekly counts, like Popular Pages did. I'll update you on my progress there; I might even be able to get it done this week. Cheers, J-Mo 23:06, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

If this supports a variable time range, I think it would be nice to have a report for the entire prior month in the WP:Signpost. It has been forced to use weekly lists in the past. See this discussion. Thanks. MB 22:20, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

MB the topviews tool provides monthly counts. Does that address your needs? Cheers, J-Mo 23:03, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

The Top 1000 tool hasn't updated since the 20th, can you see what's wrong? (and then there's the possibility of the views to add in "include redirects" as with tab one tab of the Toolforge page, but that must be complicated) igordebraga ≠ 05:57, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping, Igordebraga. I'll look into it this week. Hopefully an easy fix :) I'll update you when I know the status. Cheers, J-Mo 20:28, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Igordebraga I'm finally getting a chance to look into this. Some weird error with the pageview API. Will update when I have a fix or at least a better sense of the issue :) Cheers, J-Mo 19:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Igordebraga Fixed! The report is running again. Thanks for letting me know it went down; sorry it took so long to get it running again. Cheers, J-Mo 20:56, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

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HostBot stopped updating the Top 1000

Like some time in January it would seem. - Scarpy (talk) 09:34, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

@Scarpy:, yeah, I know. It's a strange error, and I haven't figured it out yet. Something to do with permissions on ToolForge, not my code (for once!). I'll post here and the "Top 25" thread above--which is the same issue--once I have a solution. Cheers, J-Mo 23:25, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

@Scarpy: Fixed! The report is running again. Thanks for letting me know it went down; don't hesitate to nudge me again if that happens again in the future. Cheers, J-Mo 20:57, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for maintaining this bot! It looks like the 1k page has stopped updating again. The last update was June 1, 2022. Willkoehrsen (talk) 00:39, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

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Name add to automated invites

Hello! I would like my name to be added to the list of names to appear on automatic invites by HostBot. Blaze The Wolf | Proud Furry and Wikipedia Editor (talk) 18:53, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Sure, I can do that! Cheers, J-Mo 21:24, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Name Removal from Automatic Invites.

I decided to relieve myself of being a Teahouse Host, so I removed myself from Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts/Database reports/Automated invites. --LPS and MLP Fan (Littlest Pet Shop) (My Little Pony) 21:32, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Writer's Barnstar

Hi, your bot directed me to your page :) I am fairly new to editing this big wiki (although I wrote some at my university) and I am up to become a translator one day, and I am interested in translating articles to make more information accessible for people. And I am kind of nervous in case I forget about sources and links and citations. I hope I am not bothering you with that question, but do you have any tips for translating and editing articles? And I had a look at your user page, I really admire all the work you put in. And I will gladly participate in the tea house :) (And, in case you didn't notice, I haven't found a chat function yet, as I'm quite blind to hidden options). Best wishes, Seal TheSealOfApproval (talk) 14:10, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Some falafel for you!

hi there | (talk) 17:09, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Added name to inviter list

Hello! I've added my name to automated invites inviter list. Have an awesome day! Bsoyka (talk · contribs) 19:36, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Done! J-Mo 20:56, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts/Database reports/Automated invites#Inviter list

Hi, I added myself for this list. ― Qwerfjkltalk 11:54, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Creation of New Articles

Hi J-Mo, hope you are doing well. I received a message from HostBot on behalf of the Teahouse hosts on my user-talk page. They advised me to communicate with a senior editor like you to fetch more guidance and understanding about wikipedia rules, polices and procedures. I am quite new here and I have observed one thing that people who create new pages wait so long for approval of their page. Why it happens? Why so much delay? And yes, one more question. Do you have authority to approve a page? RedMiNote (talk) 16:32, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

RedMiNote I don't edit very much these days, so I'm not the best person to turn to for advice about how to get an article published after other editors have flagged the article as having issues with neutral point of view and reliable sources. The draft review of your Draft:Farhan_Wilayat article provides some good advice on next steps you could take to improve this draft before re-submitting it for review. Why not start there? Unfortunately no one person can guarantee that an article will be published on, or remain on, Wikipedia. That's a critical part of what helps keep Wikipedia reliable and trustworthy! However, I know very well that it can be very difficult to figure out the rules--both written and unwritten. My advice to you is to take a break from the article for a while and find some other articles where you can make contributions (ideally, small contributions like adding reliable sources, to articles on a different topic than your current focus). Then when you feel like you have a better handle on the rules around neutral point of view and reliable sources, make another attempt to improve the Farhan Wilayat article. I hope that helps! J-Mo 18:03, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

How to move draft to article

Hello User:Jtmorgan, please help me or suggest me how to move my Draft Draft:Kumbharacha Ganpati to Article. Thank You.--Rajmama (talk) 09:56, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello

Hi! I had received a message on my talk page from your bot, I didn't quite understand what it meant, could you please throw some light on this? GuyForceOne (talk) 09:20, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi GuyForceOne! Welcome to Wikipedia. It looks like you figured it out ;) Happy editing, J-Mo 19:19, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Ohhh! I didn't realize that. I had accidentally stumbled upon your message after posting a question. I thought it was an invitation to become a teahouse host until I read the host criteria. Thanks!GFO (talk) 04:24, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

I cometh with peace, and milkshakes!

	Milkshake
	Thanks! this is just a token of appreciation. Pass it on! I hope to create a Milkshake Movement. GFO (talk) 04:30, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Dear Sir How are you? Ahlesunnatwaljamaatofficial.bd (talk) 19:36, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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Is this a reliable source?

HostBot says you're one of the the people to ask to get help, is this a reliable source (https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/buddhistethics/war.shtml) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AverroesII (talk • contribs) 10:41, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Major Surender Dahiya for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:JacobCardel

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Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

• Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!

• Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
• TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
• Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

• Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5
• Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"
  

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

• Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT
• Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request).

December 2019

• Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8
• Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that.
• 200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, Bot1058 6 was approved to remove disambiguation pages from Category:Monitored short pages and a new bot (DemonDays64 Bot) changed lots of http links to https using JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies.

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

• What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
• What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
• Will reFill ever get fixed?
• What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
• Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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A niggle about Hostbot

One thing that’s annoyed me with Hostbot is when it posts a Teahouse welcome to a new user who clearly has malicious intent [1]. It can make the user talk seem a bit silly [2], and it can be disheartening to those who patrol recent pages to reduce vandalism. Granted, Hostbot does a host of good, and as an RCP, my view of the results is myopic and magnified. I looked up the criteria the bot uses, and it does take into account warnings that the user might have received. You wouldn’t want to lower the threshold there. Some new users edit in good faith, yet attract nasty warnings, so a Teahouse welcome is just what’s needed, reaching out where their hand has been bitten.

“Bring me solutions, not problems!” I wish I could. It’s a fine line. And it’s been quite a while since I’ve coded. I understand that now, there are neural networks with massive numbers of layers that can automatically arrive at a decision that would closely match that of a human. Just an idea for if you’ve got a bit of spare time to devote to this vexing problem. Cheers. _signed, Willondon (talk) 19:38, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

P.S. What would you think of an editor taking it upon themselves to remove the welcome message? _signed, Willondon (talk) 19:42, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Willondon! Thanks for the ping. First: yes, you should definitely feel free to remove the Teahouse invite from users' talkpages at your discretion. Second: yeah, you've done a good job articulating the various tradeoffs that I try to navigate with HostBot. I'm always looking for new options for identifying bad-faith users to skip--without throwing out too many of the good-faith newbie babies with the bathwater, as it were. ML could definitely help. I don't have that expertise, but the idea of using the ORES API to build "risk scores" for invite candidates has been on my radar for years; just haven't gotten around to implementing it yet ;) Perhaps this Christmas vacation! Anyway, thanks again and feel free to continue providing feedback and topics for discussion--it's always useful and relevant! Cheers, J-Mo 18:54, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Hi Morgan I'm fascinated by your contribution to Wikipedia. I'm quite new here and I would like to learn a lot from you Jahyal Maselam (talk) 18:51, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Jacksonmcgrath11

A tag has been placed on User talk:Jacksonmcgrath11 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Theroadislong (talk) 11:15, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with N2 8 denied, ? 2 withdrawn, and 2 expired).

January 2020

Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

• Y ST47Bot, Seppi333Bot, Qbugbot 4 · N2 PkbwcgsBot 25, PkbwcgsBot 26
• A new Pywikibot release dropped support for Python 3.4, and it was expected that support for Python 2.7 would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.
• Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ST47Bot, the successor to STBot, and Seppi333Bot, whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for WikiProject Molecular Biology.
• Cydebot, an adminbot operated by Cyde since 2006, was blocked after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been CfD'd.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

• Y AnomieBOT 78, Cewbot 2, DannyS712 bot 67, DannyS712 bot III 63, PearBOT 6, DemonDays64 Bot 2 · N2 PearBOT
• On February 1, some concerns were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor of MediaWiki) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily blocked for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.
• On February 18, ST47Bot got into a tussle with Amalthea (bot), and had to be partially-blocked from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview.

March 2020

• Y MajavahBot, SDZeroBot, TheSandBot 6, TheSandBot 7, Bitbotje, FACBot 6, TheSandBot 8, Qbugbot 5, Cewbot 3, SDZeroBot 2, PrimeBOT 31, WikiCleanerBot 12 · AntiCompositeBot
• In March, a long discussion was started at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy by Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code).
• Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were TheSandBot 6 (removing blocked users from Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues), and TheSandBot 7 (removing unblocked users from Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names). SDZeroBot 2 was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were MajavahBot (to patrol WP:EFFPR), SDZeroBot (to merge stub tags), and Bitbotje (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in draftspace).

April 2020

Listeria being examined

• Y TheSandBot 9, BHGbot 5, DannyS712 bot 69, SDZeroBot 3, ST47ProxyBot, WugBot 4, SDZeroBot 4, DatBot 10, WikiCleanerBot 11, WikiCleanerBot 13, WikiCleanerBot 14, AntiCompositeBot 2, Cewbot 4 · N2 DaedanBot 1 · Creffbot
• A discussion on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by Barkeep49, who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding non-free images to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was blocked on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.
• ST47ProxyBot joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block IP addresses belonging to open proxies, public VPN services, and web hosts. New tasks approved for existing bots included BHGbot 5 (diffusing categories), TheSandBot 9 (taking over some tasks from the inactive RonBot), and WugBot 4 (updating data at {{Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, DatBot 10 was approved to scale down non-free SVGs — I didn't even know that was a thing.
• A discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy was started by Thryduulf about whether WP:BOTCOMM should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to Phabricator, SourceForge, Toolforge, et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its current form:

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

• Y MajavahBot 3, DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, Dreamy Jazz Bot 4, QEDKbot, William Avery Bot 2, DannyS712 bot 68, PrimeBOT 32, TheSandBot 10, Bot1058 7, BHGbot 6, EaglesBot 2, Cewbot 5, WikiCleanerBot 17 · N2 MDanielsBot, PhuzBot 3, Gedimon · ? PearBOT 7
• MajavahBot 3, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status.
• Other approvals for this month were William Avery Bot 2 (processing redirects in {{R from scientific name}}), DannyS712 bot 68 (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), TheSandBot 10 (removing blocked/locked users from Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices), Bot1058 7 (updating Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink), Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 (adding {{WikiProject Biography|living=no}} to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and QEDKbot (deleting and nominating empty categories).
• General syntax fixing tasks were approved for DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, PrimeBOT 32, BHGbot 6, Cewbot 5, and EaglesBot 2, as well as WikiCleanerBot 15, 16, and 17.
• Seven bots who fell below activity requirements (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were NekoBot, Robert SkyBot, DASHBotAV, VoxelBot, JackieBot, ReferenceBot, and CensusBot.
• On May 12, EmausBot was blocked.

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

• Y QEDKbot 2, AnomieBOT 79, WOSlinkerBot 6, Yapperbot 2, Yapperbot, AnomieBOT 80, Dreamy Jazz Bot 5, WikiCleanerBot 18, HasteurBot 15, MusikBot II 4, NoSandboxesHere · N2 RedWarn · ? Seppi333Bot 2
• In July 2017, Headbomb made a proposal that a section of the Wikipedia:Dashboard be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, Lua code was written superseding Legobot's tasks on that page, and operator Legoktm was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a partial-block of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored.
• On June 7, RexxS blocked Citation bot for disruptive editing, saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a discussion on the bots noticeboard was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Wikipedia". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and AntiCompositeNumber requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer AManWithNoPlan responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper test suite), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a June 2019 incident in which a LTA had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).
• David Tornheim opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so".
• Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: Yapperbot, to replace Legobot for handling the Feedback Request Service, and NoSandboxesHere, to remove {{user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox.

Conclusion

• What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

• Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
• What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
• Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
• What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Teahouse § From the WikiProject desk at The Signpost. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 17:16, 9 February 2022 (UTC) 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 17:16, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2022

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Organicism, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. GenoV84 (talk) 18:54, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

GenoV84 rather than slapping me with a template intended for new editors, perhaps it would be more productive (and perhaps even more collegial) for you to share with me why you believe the content I deleted is appropriate for the article in which it is placed? And then I reply, and we work out a solution. That's how I've found it works best, in my 14 years on this project. What do you think? J-Mo 19:52, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Nobody slapped you in the first place, so there's no point to cry wolf when there is none. Being a regular editor doesn't mean that you are exonerated from being warned for making mistakes, whether intentionally or inadvertently. I already explained the reason for reverting your edit, so there's not much to add. GenoV84 (talk) 21:02, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Those 'you've been reverted' templates are pretty unfriendly! Only appropriate for people who were probably vandalizing and who you don't expect to respond. – SJ  21:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Cataloging anti-vax RS discussions

Hello :) Thanks for the list of VSN orgs. Do you have time for a chat about ways to catalog past RS discussions about suspect vaccine [dis]info? I'm working on a project that could help produce as one output a perennial-sources overview. – SJ  21:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Sj sure, happy to chat. For context, I originally passed along the VSN org list at the beginning of the pandemic, because I was alerted to it when talking to a researcher who went on to give a WMF Research Showcase. I left WMF shortly after that, and I don't know (or at least, don't recall well) where the list came from or how it was assembled. That said, what were you thinking? Feel free to reach out over email (faster reply, and you should have my email from my recent-ish post to Wikimedia-l), or here. Cheers, J-Mo 19:23, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll write :) I'm mainly thinking of a perennial sources table for vaccine sources and articles. I notice that that 2019 summary from VSN wasn't updated in place, and don't see a continuous-update version from them (though they seem to have a refdesk service)

A lot of the antivax arguments are the same over the decades (aids, autism, zika, covid, mmr, &c), but we don't seem to have a single place for perennial arguments / perennial sources around this. I've been finding this is a challenge even for professional journal editors, and it's often single high-visibility articles from otherwise plausible sources. (I think this is true for statistical cognitive biases and conspiracy theories in general: important to track for shared understanding, but harder than just source-site-reliability eval.) – SJ  21:27, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Host list for HostBot

Hi, I've added myself to the list of hosts at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts/Database reports/Automated invites. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 21:36, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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HostBot seems to have stopped

HostBot hasn't updated the COVID-19 Article Report or the Top 1000 Report for the last 3 days. Do you know why? YttriumShrew (talk) 10:58, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

User:YttriumShrew I don't, but I can check on it. I don't have as much time to maintain HostBot as I used to, so issues have been piling up. I've started to look for a new/additional maintainer. J-Mo 19:35, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

@Jtmorgan: I remember you gave me specs awhile ago? It was mostly some amount of storage and bandwidth? Or is it other issues that are creeping up that you need debugging and dev help with? - Scarpy (talk) 17:24, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

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Interview for my Thesis?

you seem like a cool guy

Hi Jtmorgan, I hope you're doing well. I am working on a capstone documentary research project and I’d like to interview you. I think Wikipedia is simultaneously so powerful yet so often misunderstood, therefore I would love to explore and share the stories and perspectives of people like you that might help the world see Wikipedia through a more nuanced lens. Furthermore, I’m also excited about what I personally might learn from you! If you're interested, please let me know at [email protected]! Best, Colin :) Benddontbreak (talk) 19:07, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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khandayat

Khandayat article is looking like a propaganda. The editor intensionally relating gouda caste with khandayat. Gouda has no connection with khandayat. I have written this in talk page. And there is no response to that. The article is locked. I can many source that says about khandayat. Chasa is the origin and subcaste of khandayat. Books and articles are- Generology of paika rebellion by Japanese writer Akio tanabe, Peasant militia of odisha by prasant Pradhan. God, people and caste system by LK mahapatra, Cuttack Gazetteer by civil servant Tara Dutta, tribe and caste of odisha and Bengal by british civil servant HH risely . Pls reserch on this. Sekharblack123 (talk) 13:30, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

March 2023 Seattle meetup

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HostBot

Hello, Jtmorgan,

I was noticing that I no longer see Teahouse invitations on the talk pages of new editors, at least not for the past few years. Then I came across one from 2021 and saw that your bot used to post them but is no longer active. Could you start it up again? These welcome messages are very useful and effective for editors just joining the project. If not, can you recommend that another bot operator set up a bot to post these notices? Thank you for considering this request. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:49, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Liz! Sorry for the delayed reply--I'm not around much anymore. I had to stop maintaining HostBot when life got in the way. I have a friend who has said he might be interested in getting the bot up and running again. He has some time free in July and is a much better programmer than me anyway. I'll post here if it looks like he might be willing to take on the care and feeding of HostBot. Hope all is well in your world! Cheers, J-Mo 16:47, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Jtmorgan. It's work was so useful, greeting new editors, I hope your friend will take on being the bot operator. Thanks for the reply. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

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