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Is Task 15 (Indexing) working?

Hi, is Task 15 (indexing) still working because I read the documentation, it say it was scheduled to run on 11:23 and 22:23 UTC. However, I didn't receive notifications that my indexing page was changed by Legobot even after few hours from the scheduled run time. Or did I implement it wrongly, below is the code I pasted on my talk page.

{{User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn
|target=User talk:Paper9oll/Archive index
|mask=/Archive <#>
|leading_zeros=0
|indexhere=yes
|template=User:Paper9oll/Archive template
}}

— Paper9oll (📣 • 📝) 15:36, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

@Paper9oll: I don't think it's working, as the Archive index for the Talk:Slavery/Archive index hasn't been updated since 27 November 2020. Funandtrvl (talk) 19:32, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

I've left a message at User talk:Legoktm#Discussion at User talk:Legobot § Is Task 15 (Indexing) working? Funandtrvl (talk) 19:38, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Ah I see, thanks for the update. — 🍊 Paper9oll 🍊 (📣 • 📝) 04:23, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Honestly it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It's on my list of things to fix, but GA bot is first. Legoktm (talk) 21:09, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Legoktm! We know you're busy! Funandtrvl (talk) 21:30, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

In case anyone else is interested, I coded Module:Archive index, which does the same thing as this bot task using Lua, a while ago. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:02, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Does that work for pages with tons of archives? If so, I'd be happy to turn off the bot and figure out a way to migrate. Legoktm (talk) 01:50, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

I tested it on User talk:Jimbo Wales, and it ran into the 10-second Lua time limit. I hacked together a version at Module:Archive index/sandbox that stops running once 9 of the 10 seconds have been used, which processed 235 pages of archives, producing 1.2MB of wikitext. It might be possible to work around this with {{template cache}}, but I question whether an archive index that large is actually useful. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

For context, there are currently 5 /Archive index pages that are bigger than 1,000,000 bytes: Wikipedia:Village_pump/Archive_index, User talk:Ukexpat/Archive_index, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_index, Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion/Archive_index, and Wikipedia talk:Did_you_know/Archive_index. Of those, Wikipedia:Village_pump/Archive_index was never actually a Legobot index (it was once created by the original HBC archive indexerbot, and was manually shut down in 2008), and the module can handle User talk:Ukexpat/Archive_index, Wikipedia talk:Did_you_know/Archive_index, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_index without running out of time. This means the only currently existing archive index that my module can't handle is Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion/Archive_index, which in any case hasn't been updated since 2015. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:20, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

That is very cool. I guess I need to do a bot run to switch most over your module? Is there a template wrapper for it? Legoktm (talk) 09:16, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

When I wrote Module:Archive index in March 2019, it was intended as a quick hack that I never expected to become widely used, so I didn't bother to implement a template wrapper, or for that matter several other bells and whistles the bot supports, such as custom templates and the (apparently never documented) support for time-based rather than year-based archives. I would be willing to code those features, though, if they are deemed necessary. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:35, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Glad to see it's working again, hooray!! --Funandtrvl (talk) 17:23, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Suicide methods reverting my RFC

Hi Legobot, I'd appreciate you letting me know the issue with my WP:RFC on Talk:Suicide methods since you found it necessary to double revert it. Obviously, I'm missing something in your opinion. —FORMALDUDE^(talk) 23:09, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

@FormalDude: Legobot is a bot. That means it operates automatically and cannot "let you know the issue". I would presume that Legobot needs to find content besides a header after the {{rfc}} template and that is why you are having issues. --Izno (talk) 01:16, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

@FormalDude: Presumably you mean your edit that was partially reverted (twice). Please see WP:RFCST: there is no statement (brief, neutral or otherwise); no signature; and most importantly, no timestamp. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:58, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

I'll see myself out... —FORMALDUDE^(talk) 04:42, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

MfD archiver broken

It seems to be failing to edit Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion itself while still editing the archives, thus causing the archives to fill with duplicate entries. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:34, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

The problem seems to have begin with the run of 05:02, 26 March 2021 (UTC), where these two were added to the archive but left in the main list. The previous good run was on 23 March, so presumably something happened to the main list in those three days. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:14, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Your comment inspired me to take a closer look at the issue. The bot, according to its source code at https://github.com/legoktm/harej-bots/blob/master/mfdarchiver-rs/src/main.rs, processes each nomination from bottom to top order. It appears that, at the time of the last run before I started trying to fix things, it crashed while attempting Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Is a mRNA therapy a vaccine as generally defined?. When I manually archived that one and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Step by step process how to meditate with mindfulness, the bot then proceeded to add all later entries needing archiving to the archives on its next run ... but it still failed to remove them from the main page and I had to do so manually. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:46, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Never mind, it's now working. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:43, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks both for looking into this. The bug is in page titles with a ? in them (probably a ! or other typically encoded characters will also trigger it). Working on a fix... Legoktm (talk) 05:21, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Or maybe just ?. I have a hotfix in place for now while I work on a proper fix. Legoktm (talk) 06:46, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Template:GANotice mistake

Hi Legobot! I just wanted to report a minor error that was made when you used Template:GANotice. I recently passed the article CT scan, which was nominated and improved by Iflaq. When I checked his talk page for delivery of the automatic message, I noticed that the parameter "result" had been set to "fail" rather than "pass". This issue has now been resolved. (You also used the same template on the same page 2 other times, both of those times correctly.) Thanks! Bibeyjj (talk) 21:19, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Bogus GA failures are a well-known bug. In this specific case, it was caused by the presence of {{FailedGA}} on the talk page at the time Legobot ran, which made the bot think the nomination had failed. The exact algorithm the bot uses for this determination is at https://github.com/legoktm/harej-bots/blob/master/goodarticles.php#L691. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:52, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

@Bibeyjj: Where there are any templates relating to previous GA noms (however they turned out) or GA reassessments, it's usually best to combine all of them into a single {{article history}}, to avoid confusing Legobot. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:46, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Good article nominations

Posting this message here because the bot has not updated my pass hours ago and after checking, I can see it's been inactive on the GANs page since last night. Does anyone know why this may be and what any potential fixes are? --K. Peake 14:30, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Kyle Peake, The last time this happened we had to do manual updating. I bet User:SDZeroBot/GAN_sorting still works though (although it only updates once a day). (t · c) buidhe 18:12, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

There was a hiccup with the Toolforge infrastructure (can't get password entry for user "tools.legobot". Either user does not exist or error with NIS/LDAP etc.) and it got stuck in an error state. I stopped it manually and kicked off a run just now. Legoktm (talk) 23:40, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Legoktm, Thank you!!! We kind of depend on this bot to keep working :) (t · c) buidhe 23:46, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

More bad MfD archiver edits

Special:Diff/1017885776 listed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Why do we sometimes disagree about colors? four times. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:15, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

I've archived the discussion causing the issue manually before it ends up growing exponentially again. 68.193.40.8 (talk) 14:43, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

I would have done that too if the discussion were closed, but it was still open at the time I posted the above comment (the discussion was closed only 15 minutes ago). * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:45, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Happened again with Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Is Warnitive a Word?. Almost certainly caused by the ? at the end of the page title, as a regression from the fix of the previous bug I reported. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:32, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

I've temporarily disabled the bot by adding {{bots|deny=Legobot}} to the top of the MFD page, since until that discussion is archived or the bot fixed it's making more of a mess than helping. 86.23.109.101 (talk) 11:14, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

This is cleared off the page, but yes: appears there is a bot bug that needs to be looked in to. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:31, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Sorry about this, I'm a little swamped IRL right now. I've disabled the bot for now, I'll aim to have it fixed by the end of the weekend or just go back to the old code which didn't have this bug. And thanks everyone for helping with the cleanup. Legoktm (talk) 17:46, 16 April 2021 (UTC)