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== Going into semi-retirement ==

I will be going back into semi-retirement as of today. Messages left on my talk page may not be responded to in a timely manner. You can check my user page to get a definite reason behind this.

If you need an immediate response, please email me. I will be guaranteed to reach you faster via that method. Thank you. —[[User:LRG5784|LRG5784]] ([[User talk:LRG5784|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contribs/LRG5784|contribs]] '''·''' [[Special:EmailUser/LRG5784|email]]) 16:49, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

== ''Bots [[Wikipedia:Bots/News|Newsletter]]'', August 2019 ==

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Greetings!

Here is the 7th issue of the ''Bots Newsletter'', a lot happened since [[Wikipedia:Bots/News/201808|last year's newsletter]]! You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from [[Wikipedia:Bots/Spam|this list]].

Highlights for this newsletter include:

;ARBCOM
* Nothing of note happened. Just like we like it.

;BAG
* Several ([[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_Approvals_Group/Archive_9#Inactive BAG retirement (Mr.Z-man)|1]] + [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_Approvals_Group/Archive_9#Bulk_inactivity_removals|12]] = 13) users have been retired/resigned from the BAG due to inactivity, per [[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group#Activity requirements|our new activity requirements]] ([[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy/Archive 28#Should BAG members have an activity requirement?|discussion]]).
<blockquote>
BAG members are expected to be active on Wikipedia to have their finger on the pulse of the community. After two years without any bot-related activity (such as posting on [[:Category:Wikipedia bots|bot-related pages]], posting on a bot's talk page, or operating a bot), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice. Retired members can re-apply for BAG membership as normal if they wish to rejoin the BAG.</blockquote>
*Two BAG members retired
** {{User|Madman}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=891278258 retired].
** {{User|BU Rob13}} [[WP:VANISHED|vanished]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABot_Approvals_Group&type=revision&diff=905528110&oldid=891388521 retired].
* Three new BAG members have been voted in, welcome to the BAG!
** {{User|Primefac}} joined on 2018-12-12 ([[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/Primefac|RfBAG]]). Primefac operates {{User|PrimeBOT}} which does a [[User:PrimeBOT#Tasks|plethora of tasks]].
** {{User|TheSandDoctor}} joined on 2019-01-21 ([[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/TheSandDoctor|RfBAG]]). TheSandDoctor operates several bots including {{User|DeprecatedFixerBot}}.
** {{User|Enterprisey}} joined on 2019-08-07 ([[Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group/nominations/Enterprisey|RfBAG]]). Enterprisey operates {{User|EnterpriseyBot}}, which does a [[User:EnterpriseyBot#Tasks|plethora of tasks]], {{User|RemindMeBot}} which posts reminders, and codes several scripts.

We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.

;BOTDICT
Two new entries feature in the [[WP:BOTDICT|bots dictionary]]
*[[WP:BOTDICT#Editor-hostile wikitext|''Editor-hostile wikitext'']] – describes wikitext structuring that is editor hostile, even if it renders correctly
*[[WP:BOTDICT#Threshold of usefulness|''Spectrum of usefulness'']] – describes how tasks are deemed useful or not

;BOTPOL
*[[WP:BAGREQ|Activity requirements]]: BAG members now have an activity requirement. The requirements are very light, one only needs to be involved in a bot-related area at some point within the last two years. For purpose of meeting these requirements, discussing a bot-related matter anywhere on Wikipedia counts, as does operating a bot ([[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy/Archive 28#Should BAG members have an activity requirement?|RFC]]).
*[[WP:COPYVIOFLAG|Copyvio flag]]: Bot accounts may be additionally marked by a [[WP:CRAT|bureaucrat]] upon BAG request as being in the [[Special:ListUsers/copyviobot|"copyviobot" user group]] on Wikipedia. This flag allows using the API to add metadata to edits for use in the New pages feed ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#New bot-like access group|discussion]]). There is currently [[Special:ListUsers/copyviobot|1]] bot using this functionality.
*[[WP:MASSCREATION|Mass creation]]: The restriction on mass-creation (semi-automated or automated) was extended from ''articles'', to ''all [[Wikipedia:Reader#Project versus content|content-pages]]''. There are subtleties, but ''content'' here broadly means whatever a reader could land on when browsing the mainspace in normal circumstances (e.g. Mainspace, Books, most Categories, Portals, ...). There is also a warning that [[WP:MEATBOT]] still applies in other areas (e.g. Redirects, Wikipedia namespace, Help, maintenance categories, ...) not explicitely covered by [[WP:MASSCREATION]].

;BOTREQs and BRFAs
As of writing, we have...
* 20 active [[WP:BOTREQ|BOTREQs]], please help if you can!
* 14 open BRFAs and 1 BRFA in need of BAG attention (see [[Wikipedia:BAG/Status|live status]]).
* In 2018, 96 bot task were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved/Archive 14|approved]]. An [[WP:AWB|AWB]] search shows approximately 29 were withdrawn/expired, and 6 were denied.
* Since the start of 2019, 97 bot task were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Approved|approved]]. Logs show 15 were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval#Expired/withdrawn requests|withdrawn/expired]], and 15 were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval#Denied requests|denied]].
* 10 inactive bots have been deflagged (see [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Inactive bots - May 2019|discussion]]). 5 other bots have been deflagged per operator requests or similar (see [[Special:Permalink/896996617#Updates|discussion]]).

;New things
*All bot-related discussion pages now have a [[Wikipedia:Bots/ArchiveBox|centralized and searchable archive box]] (see [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#New_archive_box|discussion]]). Discussions are searchable per noticeboard, or globally.
*{{tl|Bot}} now supports {{para|status|expired}} (see [[Template talk:Bot#status=expired|discussion]]). This led to the deletion of [[:Category:Indefinitely blocked Wikipedia bots]] as useless (see [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 July 26#Category:Indefinitely blocked Wikipedia bots|discussion]]).
*[[WP:BOTREQ]] now mentions [[WP:SCRIPTREQ]] and [[WP:AWBTASKS]] as alternatives to bot requests.
*The [[WP:CREATEBOT|bot creation guide]] now mentions [[Help:Creating a bot#Bot Flag|bot flags]], and two new languages [[Help:Creating a bot#Awk|Awk]] and [[Help:Creating a bot#MATLAB|MATLAB]]. Other minor tweaks have been made.
*[[User:AAlertBot|AAlertBot]] has received major code updates. In particular, [[WP:AALERTS]] will now report [[WP:SPLIT|splits]], [[WP:MERGE|mergers]], and [[WP:AFC|AFC submissions]].
*[[User:Citation bot|Citation bot]] has received several updates ([[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 10]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 11|11]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 12|12]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 13|13]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 14|14]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 15|15]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 16|16]]/[[User talk:Citation bot/Archive 17|17]]). In particular, the bot stopped the automated removal of {{para|publisher}} from {{tl|cite journal}}, and stopped the automated addition of [[CiteSeerX]] links, and now uses [[meta:Help:OAuth|OAuth]] to authenticate those who make requests of the bot.

;Other discussions
These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last ''Bots Newsletter''. Many are stale, but some are still active.
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Adminbots requests page]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Double-redirect tagging (2019)]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12#Long and Winding Road to Parsoid]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Bot-like user scripts]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#WP:URLREQ]]
* [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 13#Wikipedia:Bots/Status]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group#Minimum edits]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Minor update to WP:BOTISSUE]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Semi-automated Portal creation]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Clarification on "Bots operated by multiple users"]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy#Bots triggered by multiple users]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Bots#How to use Special:ApiFeatureUsage]]

See also the latest discussions at the [[WP:BOTN|bot noticeboard]].

Thank you! <small>edited by: <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]]</span> 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)</small>
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About my edit you reverted, it wasn't in the lede section. It was in the description section. It's already mention twice, both in the lede and retirement sections. So again, that's what bugs me... [[User:Jemorie|Jemorie]] ([[User talk:Jemorie|talk]]) 21:05, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

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== ''Bots Newsletter'', December 2021 ==

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Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's ''Bots Newsletter'', your source for all things [[Wikipedia:Bots|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 [[Wikipedia:Bots/News/2019-08|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.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
* Between September and December 2019, there were 33 [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval|BRFA]]s. Of these, {{yeac}} 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful ({{nayd}} 3 denied, {{idkc}} 3 withdrawn, and [[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] 2 expired).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''September 2019'''</span>
[[File:Frankenstein1931CliveKarloff (cropped).jpg|thumb|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!''''']]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 16|Monkbot 16]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 60|DannyS712 bot 60]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ahechtbot 6|Ahechtbot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 3|PearBOT 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qbugbot 3|Qbugbot 3]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 5|DannyS712 bot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 24|PkbwcgsBot 24]] · {{idkc}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 61|DannyS712 bot 61]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 4|TheSandBot 4]]
*'''TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput''': [[User:Beeblebrox|Beeblebrox]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#User:UTRSBot|noted]] that [[User:UTRSBot|the bot]] for maintaining on-wiki records of [[Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System|UTRS]] appeals stopped working a while ago. [[User:TParis|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, [[User:SQL|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 [[WP:List of Wikipedians by article count|list of Wikipedians by article count]], which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by [[User:GreenC|GreenC]] following a [[Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_79#List of Wikipedians by article count|bot request]].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''October 2019'''</span>
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OAbot 3|OAbot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 47|DannyS712 bot 47]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Pathbot 2|Pathbot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2|PearBOT 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 59|DannyS712 bot 59]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 62|DannyS712 bot 62]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HasteurBot 14|HasteurBot 14]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 4|PearBOT 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WOSlinkerBot 4|WOSlinkerBot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 5|MilHistBot 5]]
*'''Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill''': [[User:TAnthony|TAnthony]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#reFill_2|pointed out]] that [[WP:ReFill|reFill 2]]'s bug reports were going unanswered; creator [[User:Zhaofeng Li|Zhaofeng Li]] had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, [[User:Curb Safe Charmer|Curb Safe Charmer]] had [[Wikipedia_talk:ReFill#Maintainer?|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!" <br />

<span style="font-size:125%">'''November 2019'''</span>
[[File:Wormhole travel as envisioned by Les Bossinas for NASA.jpg|thumb|Now you're thinking with portals.]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 4|BHGbot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/YiFeiBot 2|YiFeiBot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 64|DannyS712 bot III 64]] · {{idkc}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT|PearBOT]]
*'''Old bots do new tricks''': [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 64|DannyS712 bot III 64]] prowled redirects, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/YiFeiBot 2|YiFeiBot 2]] archived [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors|GoCE]] requests, and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 4|BHGbot 4]] removed links to [[Wikipedia:Contents/Portals|portals]] deleted at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion|MfD]] (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator [[User:BrownHairedGirl|BrownHairedGirl]]'s [[Special:Diff/937425282|request]]).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''December 2019'''</span>
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DemonDays64 Bot|DemonDays64 Bot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 66|DannyS712 bot III 66]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 6|Bot1058 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 15|Monkbot 15]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 6|MilHistBot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 5|PearBOT 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot IV 65|DannyS712 bot IV 65]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SportsStatsBot|SportsStatsBot]] ·[[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xinbenlv bot|Xinbenlv bot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SteveBot 8|SteveBot 8]]
*'''Redirects to be autopatrolled''': A [[Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers/Redirect autopatrol#RfC|RfC took place]] at [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol|WP:NPP]], closing with unanimous consensus that new [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirects]] should be [[Wikipedia:Autopatrolled|automatically marked as patrolled]] by bot. [[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]] wasted no time, and submitted [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 66|DannyS712 bot III 66]] the next day; it passed two days after that.
*'''200,000 bios get short descs''': Along a similar vein, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 6|Bot1058 6]] was approved to remove disambiguation pages from [[:Category:Monitored short pages]] and a new bot ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DemonDays64 Bot|DemonDays64 Bot]]) changed lots of [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|http]] links to [[HTTPS|https]] using [[WP:JWB|JavaScript Wiki Browser]]. One particularly neat task, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 5|PearBOT 5]], automatically generated [[Wikipedia:Short description|short descriptions]] for more than 200,000 biographies.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''In the next issue of ''Bots Newsletter'':'''</span><br />
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 [[User:ListeriaBot|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... '''[[User:JPxG|jp]]'''×'''[[User talk:JPxG|g]]''' 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
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Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's ''Bots Newsletter'', your source for all things [[WP:BOTS|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.

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Overall'''</span><br />
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 [[WP:BRFA|BRFA]]s. Of these, {{yeac}} 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with {{nayd}} 8 denied, {{idkc}} 2 withdrawn, and [[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] 2 expired).

<span style="font-size:125%">'''January 2020'''</span>
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* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47Bot|ST47Bot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Seppi333Bot|Seppi333Bot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qbugbot 4|Qbugbot 4]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 25|PkbwcgsBot 25]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 26|PkbwcgsBot 26]]
*A new [[mw:Pywikibot|Pywikibot]] release dropped support for [[Python 3.4]], and it was expected that support for [[Python 2.7]] would be removed in coming updates. [[m:Toolforge|Toolforge]] itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022.
*Two new bots dropped in January 2020: [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47Bot|ST47Bot]], the successor to [[User:STBot|STBot]], and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Seppi333Bot|Seppi333Bot]], whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology|WikiProject Molecular Biology]].
*[[User:Cydebot|Cydebot]], an [[WP:ADMINBOT|adminbot]] operated by [[User:Cyde|Cyde]] since 2006, was [[Special:Contributions/Cydebot|blocked]] after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been [[WP:CFD|CfD]]'d.

<span style="font-size:125%">'''February 2020'''</span>
[[File:Listeria monocytogenes 01.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, ''Listeria'' went wild in February]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 78|AnomieBOT 78]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 2|Cewbot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 67|DannyS712 bot 67]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 63|DannyS712 bot III 63]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 6|PearBOT 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DemonDays64 Bot 2|DemonDays64 Bot 2]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT|PearBOT]]
*On February 1, some [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#ListeriaBot_behaving_poorly|concerns]] were raised about [[User:ListeriaBot|ListeriaBot]] performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] (who originally coded the [[Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day|Phase II software|precursor]] of [[MediaWiki]]) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AListeriaBot blocked]</span> for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved.
*On February 18, [[Special:Contributions/ST47Bot|ST47Bot]] got into a <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Cases/Overview&offset=20200219&limit=250&action=history tussle]</span> with [[User:Amalthea (bot)|Amalthea (bot)]], and had to be partially-blocked from [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview]].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''March 2020'''</span>
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot|MajavahBot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot|SDZeroBot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 6|TheSandBot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 7|TheSandBot 7]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bitbotje|Bitbotje]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FACBot 6|FACBot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 8|TheSandBot 8]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qbugbot 5|Qbugbot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 3|Cewbot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 2|SDZeroBot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 31|PrimeBOT 31]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 12|WikiCleanerBot 12]] ·[[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AntiCompositeBot|AntiCompositeBot]]
* In March, a long [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy/Archive_28#Bot_expirations?|discussion]] was started at [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy]] by [[User:Skdb|Skdb]] about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- [[API|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 [[wikitech:Toolforge|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 [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 6|TheSandBot 6]] (removing blocked users from [[:Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues]]), and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 7|TheSandBot 7]] (removing ''unblocked'' users from [[:Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names]]). [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 2|SDZeroBot 2]] was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot|MajavahBot]] (to patrol [[WP:EFFPR]]), [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot|SDZeroBot]] (to merge stub tags), and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bitbotje|Bitbotje]] (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in [[WP:DRAFTS|draftspace]]).
<span style="font-size:125%">'''April 2020'''</span>
[[File:Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) shown in her laboratory in 1947.jpg|thumb|''Listeria'' being examined]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 9|TheSandBot 9]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 5|BHGbot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 69|DannyS712 bot 69]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 3|SDZeroBot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47ProxyBot|ST47ProxyBot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WugBot 4|WugBot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 4|SDZeroBot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DatBot 10|DatBot 10]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 11|WikiCleanerBot 11]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 13|WikiCleanerBot 13]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 14|WikiCleanerBot 14]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AntiCompositeBot 2|AntiCompositeBot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 4|Cewbot 4]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DaedanBot 1|DaedanBot 1]] ·[[File:Image-Symbol wait old.svg|20px|alt=Expired|link=]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Creffbot|Creffbot]]
*A [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_13#Re-examination_of_ListeriaBot|discussion]] on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by [[User:Barkeep49|Barkeep49]], who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding [[WP:NFCC|non-free images]] to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3AListeriaBot blocked]</span> 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 [[Special:Diff/951794012|safeguards]] were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18.
*[[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ST47ProxyBot|ST47ProxyBot]] joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block [[IP address]]es belonging to [[open proxy|open proxies]], public [[VPN service]]s, and [[web host]]s. New tasks approved for existing bots included [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 5|BHGbot 5]] ([[WP:DIFFUSE|diffusing]] categories),  [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 9|TheSandBot 9]] (taking over some tasks from the inactive [[User:RonBot|RonBot]]), and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WugBot 4|WugBot 4]] (updating data at {{tl|Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DatBot 10|DatBot 10]] was approved to scale down non-free [[SVG]]s — I didn't even know that was a thing.
* A [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy/Archive_28#Making_BOTCOMM_more_explicit|discussion]] at [[Wikipedia talk:Bot policy]] was started by [[User:Thryduulf|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]], [[wikitech:Toolforge|Toolforge]], et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its [[Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Good_communication|current form]]:
:<blockquote>Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via [[WP:SUL|unified login]], like a talk page at [[:commons:Main Page|Commons]] or at [[:it:Main Page|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 [[Wikipedia:Outing|anonymity]]) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.</blockquote>

<span style="font-size:125%">'''May 2020'''</span>
[[File:Serpiente alquimica.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|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]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot 3|MajavahBot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 70|DannyS712 bot 70]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 5|CitationCleanerBot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dreamy Jazz Bot 4|Dreamy Jazz Bot 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/QEDKbot|QEDKbot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/William Avery Bot 2|William Avery Bot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 68|DannyS712 bot 68]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 32|PrimeBOT 32]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 10|TheSandBot 10]],  [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 7|Bot1058 7]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 6|BHGbot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EaglesBot 2|EaglesBot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 5|Cewbot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 17|WikiCleanerBot 17]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MDanielsBot|MDanielsBot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PhuzBot 3|PhuzBot 3]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Gedimon|Gedimon]] · {{idkc}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 7|PearBOT 7]]
*[[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot 3|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 [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/William Avery Bot 2|William Avery Bot 2]] (processing redirects in {{tl|R from scientific name}}), [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 68|DannyS712 bot 68]] (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves),  [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot 10|TheSandBot 10]] (removing blocked/locked users from [[:Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices]]), [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 7|Bot1058 7]] (updating [[Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink]]), [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dreamy Jazz Bot 4|Dreamy Jazz Bot 4]] (adding <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:WikiProject Biography|WikiProject Biography]]|living=no<nowiki>}}</nowiki> to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/QEDKbot|QEDKbot]] (deleting and nominating empty categories).
*General syntax fixing tasks were approved for [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 70|DannyS712 bot 70]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CitationCleanerBot 5|CitationCleanerBot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 32|PrimeBOT 32]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BHGbot 6|BHGbot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 5|Cewbot 5]], and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EaglesBot 2|EaglesBot 2]], as well as [[User:WikiCleanerBot|WikiCleanerBot]] [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 15|15]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 16|16]], and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 17|17]].
*Seven bots who fell below [[Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Activity_requirements|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 [[User:NekoBot|NekoBot]], [[User:Robert SkyBot|Robert SkyBot]], [[User:DASHBotAV|DASHBotAV]], [[User:VoxelBot|VoxelBot]], [[User:JackieBot|JackieBot]], [[User:ReferenceBot|ReferenceBot]], and [[User:CensusBot|CensusBot]].
*On May 12, [[User:EmausBot|EmausBot]] was [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_14#Block_of_EmausBot|blocked]].

<span style="font-size:125%">'''June 2020'''</span>
[[File:Arburg Lego.png|thumb|A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos]]
* {{yeac}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/QEDKbot 2|QEDKbot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 79|AnomieBOT 79]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WOSlinkerBot 6|WOSlinkerBot 6]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yapperbot 2|Yapperbot 2]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yapperbot|Yapperbot]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 80|AnomieBOT 80]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dreamy Jazz Bot 5|Dreamy Jazz Bot 5]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot 18|WikiCleanerBot 18]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/HasteurBot 15|HasteurBot 15]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot II 4|MusikBot II 4]], [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NoSandboxesHere|NoSandboxesHere]] · {{nayd}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RedWarn|RedWarn]] · {{idkc}} [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Seppi333Bot 2|Seppi333Bot 2]]
*In July 2017, [[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] made a [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_14#Partial_block_of_dashboard_bot|proposal]] that a section of the [[Wikipedia:Dashboard]] be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, [[Lua]] code was written superseding [[User:Legobot|Legobot]]'s tasks on that page, and operator [[User:Legoktm|Legoktm]] was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a [[WP:PARTIALBLOCK|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, [[User:RexxS|RexxS]] blocked [[User:Citation bot|Citation bot]] for [[WP:disruptive editing|disruptive editing]], saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a [[Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive_14#Citation_bot|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 [[User:AntiCompositeNumber|AntiCompositeNumber]] requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer [[User:AManWithNoPlan|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 [[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive310#Citation_bot_is_making_unacceptable_proxy_edits_for_blocked_users|June 2019 incident]] in which a [[WP:LTA|LTA]] had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors).
*[[user:David Tornheim|David Tornheim]] opened a discussion about [[Wikipedia_talk:Bot_policy/Archive_28#Bot_code_--_can_remain_proprietary???|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: [[User:Naypta|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: [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yapperbot|Yapperbot]], to replace [[User:Legobot|Legobot]] for handling the [[WP:FRS|Feedback Request Service]], and [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NoSandboxesHere|NoSandboxesHere]], to remove {{tl|user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using [[:Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox]].

<span style="font-size:150%">'''Conclusion'''</span><br />
* 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 [[User:InternetArchiveBot|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!

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