User talk:The Earwig
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lowercase sigmabot III[edit]
Hi! I reached out to Σ by email about lowercase sigmabot III, which had not been archiving anything (with the exceptions of AN and ANI) since last week. They responded (by email) saying Please reach out to Earwig for this issue. The crontab was erased somehow, which means that it's no longer running the bot on its schedule. I'm not sure what changed but I think he will know where to look
and that For the time being I just kicked it off manually.
Thank you for any insight you might have! HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 15:07, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look at this. — The Earwig (talk) 15:29, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- It's not clear what the original issue was, but I've jiggled things a bit, so if we're lucky it won't happen again. — The Earwig (talk) 16:29, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024[edit]
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request to tag article talk pages within scope of Women's Basketball[edit]
Hi The Earwig,
I would like to request that talk pages for articles within the scope of WP:WBB be tagged with both
Basketball: Women's NA‑class | ||||||||||
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Women's sport: Basketball NA‑class | ||||||||||
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Do you need additional information and/or should I post this request somewhere else?
Thank you, Hmlarson (talk) 23:20, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Hmlarson, you'll need to define what "within the scope of WP:WBB" means in order to run the bot. — The Earwig (talk) 01:52, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- Can you do any article tagged with a subcategory of Category:Women's basketball? Hmlarson (talk) 18:58, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Hmlarson: OK. Subcats are sometimes tricky because of unexpected relationships (a subcategory of a subcategory a few levels deep sometimes has little relationship with the original category), but I reviewed this situation, and it looks mostly fine.
- I'll have the bot generate a list of pages it would tag, and we can double-check those. It'll take me a few days.
- Separately, there is a requirement that you mention on the WikiProject talk page that you want to run this tagging job, in case there are any objections.
- Thanks! — The Earwig (talk) 03:43, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Sounds good. I've posted the notice here. Hmlarson (talk) 17:18, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi The Earwig - Any chance you have you can provide an ETA on this request? Thank you! Hmlarson (talk) 20:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
- So sorry for the wait here, I had to make some code changes to handle tagging both banners and a few personal things came up – I have some free time now and will get back to you
tomorrowin a few days. — The Earwig (talk) 20:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- So sorry for the wait here, I had to make some code changes to handle tagging both banners and a few personal things came up – I have some free time now and will get back to you
- Hi The Earwig - Any chance you have you can provide an ETA on this request? Thank you! Hmlarson (talk) 20:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Sounds good. I've posted the notice here. Hmlarson (talk) 17:18, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- Can you do any article tagged with a subcategory of Category:Women's basketball? Hmlarson (talk) 18:58, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Revdel-responder[edit]
Hi, it could be a WP:THURSDAY thing but the revdel-respoder script seems to have a problem today. I keep getting a message "Sorry! revdel-responder failed to parse the page content". I'm not good enough at interpreting the console to work out what's gone wrong. Nthep (talk) 11:44, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
- not sure if anything has happened during the day but, it seems to have resolved itself. Nthep (talk) 18:49, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know, Nthep. It's possible that was some intermittent error. If you run across it again, let me know the page, or send me the text from the console (right click -> Inspect -> "Console" tab, there should be a line starting with "Error while parsing page content"). — The Earwig (talk) 03:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
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