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Hello. I hope you are doing well.
Few months back, we had discussed a few things about pywikibot. I have been successfully running a pywikibot setup from toolforge since last few months (for Marathi wikipedia (mrwiki). In the beginning, the bot was running on grid. I think 4-5 months ago, I was told to migrate to buster grid, and I did so. Currently everything is being migrated to kubernetes. But the help/user guide pages are not very clear. Do you have any idea how to migrate the tool to kubernetes? I am also posting this query at VPT for more input. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 11:15, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran: Admittedly, even I am still just using the buster grid and didn't know they were starting to force people to migrate to Kubernetes. Are there any deadlines for this migration? Let me know if you get any more information. Mz7 (talk) 19:22, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

I am also curious to learn more about this. Please ping. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 19:24, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: I think I will find a workable method for migrating my cronjobs to kubernetes in a day or two. Regarding the deadline, I'm not sure if I read any or not, but the way they (borderline?) spammed phabricator gives me a feeling they are in a hurry. I will update you guys tomorrow or day after tomorrow. —usernamekiran (talk) 19:36, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

• TheSandDoctor, and Mz7, I successfully migrated to kubernetes like 2 weeks after this conversation. It wasn't easy because of the unclear documentation though. In short, you have to make a "local install" of pywikibot on toolforge. At that time, I was under impression shared was the recommended one (it was recommended in the tutorial), and I was trying with it. Regarding your SPI bot, does it run at predefined intervals, or does it get triggered by some particular activity? —usernamekiran (talk) 06:16, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

  @Usernamekiran: Runs every 10 minutes via a cron job. Mz7 (talk) 08:39, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

  I have two cron jobs, but both run once in 24 hours. —usernamekiran (talk) 08:50, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

• Hi. There's a request at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Bot to update WP:MOSTREFS. Would it be possible to create a script for that using only pywikibot? Or will it need some other query as well? —usernamekiran (talk) 00:40, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I did not know that this "mentorship module" is a relatively new feature on Wikipedia. I am inclined to agree with you that we have no sockpuppetry going on with what's going at User talk:Oshwah. Cheers, Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 16:16, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, I also didn’t know about the mentorship module until your SPI. Learn something new everyday. Mz7 (talk) 20:03, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)}}

Donner60 (talk) 00:00, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

From my family to yours: Merry Christmas, Mz7! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:04, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Mz7! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 13:14, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

– Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.

CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:13, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

==Happy New Year!==

– Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

— Moops ^⋠T⋡ 16:59, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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January songs

happy new year

thank you for the thank -you stats! - just my mother's birthday - she introduced me to music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:53, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 01:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

• Fun fact, I passed RfA on Friday the 13th. Today is yet another Friday the 13th in January, the first since then. Anyway, thanks for the reminder! Mz7 (talk) 18:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:TheresNoTime § CSV file. —usernamekiran (talk) 01:44, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

—usernamekiran (talk) 01:44, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Eugene Roe and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 January 23 § Eugene Roe until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:39, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Do you think there's anything that could be done about Mz7 bot including transclusions in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Cases? See [24]. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 19:47, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Oh wow, interesting bug. I’m a little busy this weekend, but I will look into this! Mz7 (talk) 22:28, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Hmm. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure there is an easy way to skip those nested transclusions (i.e. a page transcludes AIV which transcludes the CU needed template). I think a better solution would be to have the bot simply ignore transclusions of the CU needed template in the User namespace and the Template namespace, which should be enough to eliminate most duplicate entries, and given the nature of those namespaces, it would be unlikely that the CU needed template would be used legitimately in those namespaces. Mz7 (talk) 08:01, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Might be more expensive, but checking the text with a generator should work, see ApiSandbox. I assume there's a similar equivalent for pywikibot. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 09:12, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 00:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Hi! I'm an admin on Commons, and noticed that you found a bunch of blocked TylerKutschbach socks on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TylerKutschbach that you didn't list due to WP:DENY. TylerKutschbach is also active on disrupting Wikimedia Commons. If it's not too difficult, would you be willing to share the socks you didn't list via email so I can do some cross-wiki cleanup? Best, — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 15:14, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757: I sent you an email! Mz7 (talk) 00:34, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:30, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 10:19, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Just noticed that the mobile IP range I am using today to log into Wikipedia is blocked (2600:1000:b100::/41). This isn't an issue for me because I have an account, but this is an incredibly large IP range (154,742,504,910,672,534,362,390,528 IPs) and there is certainly potential for collateral damage. TheManInTheBlackHat (Talk) 17:17, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi TheManInTheBlackHat, thanks for the message! I am aware of the size of this range, and unfortunately, my view is that the block is justified in the short term in order to prevent persistent sock puppetry that has been occurring on it. It's a bit of a judgment call because indeed there will be unavoidable collateral damage. I am open to adjusting it if another administrator feels strongly on it. (Although the raw number of IP addresses seems alarming, note that in IPv6 addressing, a better upper bound for the number of individual networks affected is to look at the number of /64s in the range, which in this case is 8,388,608—still a lot, to be sure, but at least it's not bigger than a mole!) Mz7 (talk) 20:04, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

I see, thanks for the response! TheManInTheBlackHat (Talk) 20:55, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

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