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Hi Rich Smith! I noticed you made a few pages like these (], ], ]). It looks like they're intended to be talk pages but they're in article space. I just wanted to touch base with you and see what's up with them. If they were made accidentally, I can just tag them for speedy deletion. Thanks! ] (]) 05:41, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
Hi Rich! On the GWB page I do not see the changes in the box on the right side of the page. It is the box that gives a brief description of the bridge. It still says October 24th. How do I make Those changes? Thank you! <!-- Template:Unsigned --><span class="autosigned" style="font-size:85%;">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 23:49, 25 October 2021 (UTC)</span> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:{{re|Maincable}} That would be as part of the 'Infobox bridge' template, the bits you are looking for are begin= and open=. Also, remember to ] on talk pages using 4 ~ signs - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 14:34, 26 October 2021 (UTC)


:{{re|BuySomeApples}} Oh blah... it came from the ] tool... it screwed that one up - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 05:53, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
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Hi Rich, did you intend to remove the PROD right after you added it, or was that a mistake? ] (]) 08:58, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
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:{{re|1AmNobody24}} Ah poop, no I did not intend to do that, thought I reloaded the page in WikiCleaner. I'll put it back. Thanks for letting me know - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 09:06, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
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I'm a crat from SqWiki. These days I was shown ClueBot NG from a user when I asked him advice in fighting vandalism. Would it be possible to make ClueBot NG work in wikis other than EnWiki? We (and I believe a lot of other wikis as well) would be really grateful to benefit from it if it was possible. - ] (]) 00:49, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
:{{re|Klein Muçi}} it can, however I needs a lot of training data. Pinging {{ping|DamianZaremba}} to see if he can provide more input to what is required - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 07:06, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
::Yeah, I understand that because I read how it worked. I was thinking to maybe keep it on a kind of a "simulation" mode while it learned (maybe just don't give it the bot flag yet?) and later unleash it in full power. - ] (]) 11:32, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
:::I don't think it quite works like that, the bot flag is irrelevant. {{Ping|Cobi}} could maybe assist as well? - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 11:33, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
::::At the very least, the bot needs a several tens of thousands of randomly sampled main-space edits categorized as good or bad to even have a chance of being reasonably accurate, but ideally more. I also do not speak Albanian, so I couldn't reasonably offer support for false positives or anything like that. The bot itself is open source, and most of the tooling should be in the repo.
::::It seems that {{u|DamianZaremba}}'s been reworking some of the training tooling, but the original training tooling is mostly . It's a bit of a mess since it is mostly a snapshot of some of our working directories back when we were originally training the bot. The basic idea was there was a MySQL database called EditDB, and it had a table called .
::::Tools like took data in on stdin in the form of "123456 V" or "234567 C" to mark revid 123456 as vandalism and revid 234567 as constructive. Tools like would then emit XML suitable for training the bot's core from the edits in the EditDB. Tools like were built to find other ways of generating classifications like by checking if someone reverted real-world edits. This was not as effective as the smaller (but still large) hand-curated datasets.
::::Finally, after using generateXML.php to generate train.xml, trial.xml, and bayestrain.xml in the editsets directory (we used limit clauses to split the files, with 0-16000 in bayestrain.xml, 16000-60000 in train.xml, and the rest in trial.xml), we then ran to train the bot and then get metrics on the efficacy of the bot. There are also tools like which attempts to explore reasonable ANN parameters which are stored in and what we believe to be reasonable values for training datasets between 50,000 and 100,000 edits.
::::If any of that made some sort of sense, you may wish to give it a go. If not, maybe find a bot dev on SqWiki that has time and desire to curate and run a SqWiki version? -- ]<sup>(]&#124;]&#124;])</sup> 03:54, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
:::::@], thanks a lot for taking the time to explain the details! I followed every provided link along with your explanations. I saw that there hadn't been any changes for the last decade almost so I do understand that it may appear as an "old project" for you. I have a naïve question I couldn't understand from your explanation though: You say that the bot should use around 50k results (just an example) divided into C and V type to start its training which then gets information added by reverts and more. Then you also mention "hand-curated datasets". Should I understand that those initial 50k results (again, just an example) were divided into C and V type manually? If I'm misunderstanding that, how was that initial division made?
:::::The reason I ask is because if there's one thing we (and all the small wikis) lack is a large active userbase. We struggle so much with having an active working force that that was actually what brought me here. Even after setting up strict edit filters and trying to block vandals fast, still the number of pages and changes pending review is so large that it's unmanageable by us. (We lowered it to 0 some time ago but still...) Therefore it's unfortunately very common for changes to expect review for months if not years before someone actually comes to do that. Lately we started being attacked by some IP vandals which come and change just small trivial information on articles for example the name of the city where someone is born or the date when someone died or the number of works published by someone. These are undetectable by the filters and are unblockable for very large periods of time because they're IPs (and more than one) and they're not on the same IP range. This not only lowers the project's overall integrity but also increases the workload for the already non-existing patrollers which starts a vicious cycle: New patrollers/reviewers may become interested in helping and seeing the extremely large number of pending changes feel like their work won't matter and leave which only makes the number grow more. When I asked for help here in dealing with this situation, Xaosflux showed me your bot. It is crucial for us in automatizing vandalism fighting so we can have a chance in reviewing the remaining constructive edits which may or may not be acceptable for SqWiki standards.
:::::Currently I'm the only active one dealing with bot developing in SqWiki. I run a bot myself which operates in SqWiki, SqQuote and LaWiki but it's a rather simple one working on the Pywikibot framework and the occasional AWB changes. I haven't had a chance to work on GitHub yet even though I have an account there, if I'm not wrong. I can try starting that journey (even though I'm an autodidactic coder) but I'd need a lot of guidance along the way. To be honest what I was expecting was to work towards some localization "tables", like I've done with the other imported bots in the past (maybe, most notably, IABot), not duplicate the code. I highly expected Cluebot's functionality to have been requested by many Wikis during its existence and i18n infrastructure to be already implemented in it. I was surprised to understand that I may be one of the few (if my understanding is correct) users who's going on with a request like this. - ] (]) 10:52, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
::::::@] The links I posted are to the original versions of the files since the original training hasn't changed in the decade or so. The bot itself has been updated more regularly in and . But, yeah, we collected and categorized some of the edits ourselves, and some had been collected by , and some were crowd-sourced by using .
::::::Essentially at a high level, the bot takes the edits and and then compares them against the known good and known bad edits' statistics using an ]. If it looks like good edits more than bad edits, it leaves it alone, otherwise it reverts it. This is essentially what machine learning is.
::::::This does, of course, lead to why the bot hasn't been localized, yet. It needs a completely new data-set for each new wiki it operates on, and no one has taken on that challenge yet. It's also why ClueBot NG does not operate on other English wikis other than en.wikipedia, because the data-set actually needs to be made for the wiki in question, not just the language. For example, an article on the English Misplaced Pages would look totally different than one on the English Wikinews or Wiktionary, and because the bot works by looking at an edit and trying to determine whether or not it belongs based on its data-set, it would notice the differences. The actual strings tables used for messages themselves are trivial to update for localization in comparison with the data-set.
::::::Other projects have asked for ClueBot NG before, but not that often. I've told them essentially what I've told you: The bot is open source, but you have to collect a data-set for it to work. There is also ] that could potentially be used and updated, but its functionality was limited and largely eclipsed by the ], and much less effective than the machine learning approach that ClueBot NG uses. -- ]<sup>(]&#124;]&#124;])</sup> 13:53, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2025-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

  • On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
  • One new wiki has been created: a Misplaced Pages in Tigre (w:tig:)
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.

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  • Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
  • Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
  • Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
  • Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

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Error making talk pages?

Hi Rich Smith! I noticed you made a few pages like these (World of Tomorrow 2 talk: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, World of Tomorrow 3 talk: The Absent Destinations of David Prime, World of Tomorrow Episode II talk: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts). It looks like they're intended to be talk pages but they're in article space. I just wanted to touch base with you and see what's up with them. If they were made accidentally, I can just tag them for speedy deletion. Thanks! BuySomeApples (talk) 05:41, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@BuySomeApples: Oh blah... it came from the WP:AFC/R tool... it screwed that one up - Rich 05:53, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
@BuySomeApples: Alright, I think I've fixed them all. Thanks for letting me know - Rich 05:58, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

CS1 error on Abdul Waheed Kakar

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CS1 error on Can't Take Me Home

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Re: Amber Valley

Hello Rich Smith, This is to let you know that one of your recent edit at Amber Valley caused a citation error. you have added invalid url at {{Cite web}} template.

Do not add invalid url and use preview before saving your edit. Happy editing.––kemel49 17:38, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@KEmel49: Thanks for that, however 1. You might want to subst your template and 2. WP:DONTTEMPLATE - Just a little "Ya broke it, I fixed it" would have been fine - Rich 17:45, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
@Rich Smith, AnomieBot do that substitution part but was might late on traffic. On the run to give such good news frequently to fellow editors, i used all my brain cell to create a test template on sandbox. and a "hangover show off" you can say.––kemel49 07:00, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

ClueBot NG: Reverting vandalism failure

ClueBot NG's task "Reverting vandalism" failed to run per the configuration specified at Misplaced Pages:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 2 hours, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 19:20, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Bank of Maharashtra

Hi Rich, did you intend to remove the PROD right after you added it, or was that a mistake? Nobody (talk) 08:58, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@1AmNobody24: Ah poop, no I did not intend to do that, thought I reloaded the page in WikiCleaner. I'll put it back. Thanks for letting me know - Rich 09:06, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
  • On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Misplaced Pages, Kabyle Misplaced Pages, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki.
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

ClueBot III: Archiving discussions failure

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Query regarding article deletion

I have a query regarding my company's[REDACTED] article, where you preposed for deletion. i have made some edits as per the feedback. Vijith05 (talk) 11:55, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

@Vijith05: First of off, if you work for the bank, you need to disclosed paid editing, please read WP:PAID. This is a REQUIREMENT of the Wikimedia Terms of Use and MUST be done before ANY further editing. Second, what you have added/changed does nothing to change the reason for the proposed deletion. - Rich 22:35, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
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