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Bot seems to be down

Hasn't removed AIV reports for hours. Jdcomix (talk) 03:15, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jdcomix I've restarted the bot. Mdann52 (talk) 05:41, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another incorrect removal

As with the recent incorrect removal of user:Tacyarg's Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention report on January 17 (see User talk:HBC AIV helperbot14#Bot removed 2 reports at once, the bot incorrectly removed a recently added report on a non-blocked user. See [1]. This was an AIV report for user:CLACM rather than a username report, and the timestamps for the addition and removal are different by 1 minute. Meters (talk) 19:42, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And it appears that user:Spencer reported the same incorrect behaviour in November [2] Meters (talk) 19:48, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Meters this is a known bug in pywikibot (see phab:T93364). I've added some logic in, evidently I'll need to revisit this again when I get the next chunk of development time. Mdann52 (talk) 19:50, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Meters (talk) 19:51, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed. Please let me know if it happens again. There's still a small time where this could still happen (I compare the revision IDs of the version I modify, and the latest version, when I commit the save, but if there's high lag at the WM side, there's still a chance of a conflict). Unfortunately I'm beholden to PyWikiBot and/or the backend on that side of things. Mdann52 (talk) 08:51, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mdann52: Seemed to happen again here. Spencer^T•C 20:03, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another removal. Addition w/ second vandal mention — Its immediate removal Adakiko (talk) 18:25, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Adakiko Thanks for the report. The core issue leading to this in the underlying library rather than my code. This occurs when enwiki is under high strain, and the WMF servers tell my bot to retry the edit after X seconds, and someone else edits the page during this cooldown as Humans are given priority.

I've tried a few fixes, there's one more I'm going to look into next week, but it's not an easy fix to sort out unfortunately, as I cannot easily catch or override this behaviour Mdann52 (talk) 18:29, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect deletion

Here the bot removed User:Mahanagar Delhi - NCR Uttarakhand Pravashi Sangdhan, even though they were not blocked at that time. Srf123 (talk) 12:40, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Srf123: Thanks for the report. This seems to be an edit conflict issue I've seen elsewhere, I've changed the behaviour of the bot today to fix this. Mdann52 (talk) 08:49, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]