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COIBot failing to report on metawiki and enWP

Hi. I see that we are not getting reports written to metawiki and enWP for over a day. Seems to be running fine in IRC. That connectivity piece always defeats me, though I will see what I can shake. Though I am not near connectivity for the bots, so it may be a little while. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:08, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I would be willing to have a look if you or Beetstra can give me access (see above). LDAP/Toolforge user name is Count Count as well. Count Count (talk) 06:49, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Notice of removal of adminship (October 2023)

Hello Beetstra,

I regret to inform you that pursuant to Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity), and since you have not made at least 10 edits in the last six months, your administrator and associated permissions have been removed from your account. Please see Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity)/October 2023 for details.

Kind regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:23, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio I know it is the rule, but this will hinder the sbl script and bot maintenance (their settings are protected). Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 04:18, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

It's indeed unfortunate, and the result of an obsolete policy IMHO. I've been trying to persuade the community to get rid of automatic removal or tweak it to apply only on cases of absolute inactivity, but so far people seem happy with the status quo (see the two sections at Meta talk:Administrators/Removal (inactivity) for details). Would interface adminship be enough to be able to edit/manage the blacklists and the bot settings? That permission only requires making 10 edits anywhere each 6 months. Another option would be to apply for an indefinite limited adminship with or without Interface Adminship for blacklists and COIBot management such as the one we approved here. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:11, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

@MarcoAurelio, I am rather inactive at the moment so it was predictable. I agree that the policy is crude, but I see the other side of it as well (would have liked a question before at the least so I could respond).
The interface adminship is for the blacklist gadget, but as I am not an admin I will not use that now and not think of improvements or bugs anyway. Adminship for bot settings and blacklisting itself is annoying not to have but I would need to keep it up anyway. Lets see how things evolve with my availability. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 04:21, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Beetstra. An ugly gerrymander way around this roadblock is to remove the protection, and write a very tight abusefilter that solely focuses on the settings page by username and by role. (user Beestra | role administrator). I hate doing it as the rules of the wiki should be intelligent enough to allow a central coordinating wiki to centrally coordinate but instead we have this rule around administrators needing to edit to retain rights.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:30, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

COIBot logged out of meta +++

For the past week plus, the report data are being generated (according to IRC), though unable to be written to meta. IRC has been saying that COIBot is trying to login and write to Meta, though it has been saying that for many many weeks so not a good measure. I have never successfully managed to work out how to get meta login to work.  — billinghurst sDrewth 21:31, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Just came to report this myself, still going on DannyS712 (talk) 19:31, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

LinkWatchers on arwiki

Hi @Beetstra, I need a bot to monitor links on arwiki #wikipedia-ar-spam^connect. Thanks-- Gerges (talk) 14:19, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Linkwatchers

Hi, the linkwatchers haven't output anything to their IRC channels since at least last night. Hopefully nothing's gone awry. -XXBlackburnXx (talk) 23:22, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations, dear administrator!

Congratulations, Beetstra! You now have the rights of an administrator on Meta-Wiki. Please take a moment to read the Meta:Adminstrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, and Meta:Requests for deletion, but also Talk:Spam blacklist and Talk:Interwiki map), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings, or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other admins, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care. Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-adminconnect. You may find Meta:Admin handbook to be useful. Please also check or add your entry to the Template:List of administrators. You're also allowed to subscribe to the metawiki-admins private mailing list (subscription instructions on that page). Again, congratulations and welcome to the team. --M/ (talk) 16:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC) Thanks! As said, I will mainly focus on the spam blacklist and on my bot pages, but may help a bit around other tasks where needed (and I feel comfortable enough). Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 19:48, 2 December 2024 (UTC) @M7, I don't seem to be allowed to connect to #wikimedia-admin, I'm not on invite list? Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 19:50, 2 December 2024 (UTC) Sorry for the delay with your IRC channel question. You have to ask Az1568 or AmandaNP: they have the appropriate bits to have you invited. Ciao, M/ (talk) 13:13, 3 December 2024 (UTC) Can you please provide your NickServ username and cloak and reping me. -- Amanda (she/her) 19:44, 3 December 2024 (UTC) @AmandaNP I'm also user Beetstra on liberachat. Cloak 'user/beetstra'. Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 18:28, 4 December 2024 (UTC) I have added access for you for the time being. That said, I've not added you to the invite bypass list, so you will have to manually invite yourself with ChanServ for now. For security purposes, I will need you to m:IRC/Cloaks obtain a non-user cloak. I can process that as soon as you have submitted. -- Amanda (she/her) 19:44, 4 December 2024 (UTC) @AmandaNP done that, waiting for approval of wikipedia/beetstra Dirk Beetstra T C (en: U, T) 22:20, 5 December 2024 (UTC)