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Template:Edit request/List

Hi! Recently your bot’s edits to Template:Edit request/List are marked as minor. This suppresses notification emails about the edits, which is annoying and is against the goal of making edit requests more visible. Could you please disable the minor edit flag?

Speaking of this page, Category:Commons protected edit requests has five subcategories, of which only two are listed. Could you also list Category:Commons protected edit requests (protection level)‎, Category:Commons protected edit requests (semi protected)‎ and Category:Commons protected edit requests (template protected)‎—or maybe tell the bot to list all subcategories it finds, to make it more future-proof? Thanks in advance! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:28, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

The edits are still minor, and still only two subcategories are listed. Nothing’s resolved here. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 16:40, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

That would require a re-write, and i have currently no time for that. Sorry. But it is on my to-do list. Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:10, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

I’m sorry to see that you’ve given up on that to-do list, but it’s your decision. Is the source code available somewhere so that others can do the rewrite without doing unnecessary extra work? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 07:36, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: Sorry for the late reply, https://pastebin.com/ewc9vz4v --Steinsplitter (talk) 13:59, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

BTW: If you have a toolsforge account, i can give you access to the bot if necessary or you copy the code to your own bot (then i can disable the task). Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the code! However, without an explicit free software license, I’m unfortunately legally not allowed to modify it.

I have a Toolforge account (with the same name as my wiki account), but I have no bot account, so if you would give me access to your bot, that would be perfect (but a license is still needed so that I can modify the code). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 16:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: You have been added to https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/tools/id/sbot. The source code of the aforementioned file is licensed user en:WTFPL. Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 18:34, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I’ve put the code on GitLab and (hope to) have fixed the minor edit issue. I’d like to add the remaining subcategories as well, but that needs a bit more work. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:44, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

P.S. I put only that file on GitLab, but maybe you could publish other bots’ source codes there as well, to enable other people to see them. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:01, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Look for uncategorised files in a category - once off?

Hi. Is it possible to get the bot to look for uncategorised files in a specific category? I am finding numerous files that don't have categories in Category:Photographs by Justin Higuchi - it would be useful to have the bot scan this file as a once off so i can categorise any files without cats that it finds Gbawden (talk) 10:26, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello, I stopped developing new tools. Thank you for your understanding. The old uncat script is no longer working, due to missing resources on toolsforge. Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:09, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

The Missing U Invisible Barnstar

		Boooo !!!! We miss you!! We wish you were more active, please log in soon and help us with the backlog!!
		Hi Steinsplitter, in 2015 you gave me a wakeup call, now it is an appropriate time to return the favor. Seriously, I have no idea to which extent you are busy in real life. But we miss you and it would be great to see you active again.

Best, --AFBorchert (talk) 19:57, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

@AFBorchert: Hi Andreas, It is nice to see that you are still around and thanks for remembering me. :) --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:03, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Steinsplitter, great to see that you are back and active again! Right now it is my turn to be less active due to my busy work life. Best, AFBorchert (talk) 15:40, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

File:Burg Heimhof - Oberpfalz 004.JPG

File:Burg Heimhof - Oberpfalz 004.JPG has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

109.43.48.222 08:10, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

File:Burg Heimhof - Oberpfalz 004.JPG

File:Burg Heimhof - Oberpfalz 004.JPG has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

109.43.48.222 08:14, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Bot Got a Barnstar Dndnrmn2 (talk) 05:36, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

no Dndnrmn2 (talk) 02:42, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Category move bot stuck

Some category move requests I added to User:CommonsDelinker/commands yesterday are still not performed. GPSLeo (talk) 07:30, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Creation of categories Railway photographs taken on yyyy-mm-dd

Hello, I put a request at com:bot work requests concerning creation of Railway photographs taken on category on a daily basis. Since I see that your bot can perform such task, I appreciate if you input a new command. Thank you very much. --トトト (talk) 06:56, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello, I stopped developing new tools. Thank you for your understanding. --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:04, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Mass undeletion

Hi, Could you undelete these 146 files please: COM:UDR#Public Domain Mark files? Thanks in advance, Yann (talk) 18:35, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Sorry but my undeletion script is currently not functional and i stopped developing new tools. Best --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:03, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Don't do any final fancy movement

When we finally confirm our rotation request, the thumbnail image does some funny extra movement before it disappears. This makes the user very nervous. Jidanni (talk) 16:51, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Please clear your browser cache. --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:02, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Event Deletions

I suspect this is a dumb question, but I'm drawing a blank. The Commons Admin action counter says you've done 136 Event Deletions. It says I have done 1 -- but I can't remember or find what an Event Deletion is. ???? Thanks, .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 21:54, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

@Jameslwoodward: subtype=event&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist --Steinsplitter (talk) 13:53, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Foto verwendet und bearbeitet Monegge_Kapelle_Kartitsch

Foto verwendet und bearbeitet unter der Creative Commons-Lizenz „Namensnennung – Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Österreich“. Änderungen vorgenommen. Quelle: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monegge_Kapelle_Kartitsch.JPG auf Seite pilzgeschichte.eu und für ein geplantes Buch 178.115.49.227 09:24, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Übersetzungsbenachrichtigung: Commons:Deletion policy

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Übersetzungsbenachrichtigung: Commons:De minimis

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Übersetzungsbenachrichtigung: Commons:Fair use

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Übersetzungsbenachrichtigung: Commons:Derivative works

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Discussion at File talk: Cscr-featured.svg#Update request 2

 You are invited to join the discussion at File talk: Cscr-featured.svg#Update request 2. QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 00:04, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Archiving Commons:Categories for discussion

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=SteinsplitterBot&namespace=4&tagfilter=&topOnly=1&start=&end=2023-04-30

it seems your bot has stopped archiving Commons:Categories for discussion? RZuo (talk) 05:27, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Fixed. --Steinsplitter (talk) 19:14, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Rotating photos

Hallo Steinsplitter! Sorry my english...I put two photos on https://it.wikibooks.org/wiki/Disposizioni_foniche_di_organi_a_canne/Italia/Lazio/Provincia_di_Viterbo/Ronciglione/Ronciglione_-_Oratorio_del_Santissimo_Rosario , in sunday evening, but have not been rotated.. Momimariani1962 (talk) 16:50, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

It seems indeed that rotating by Steinsplitterbot is stuck, see Category:Images requiring rotation by bot, which contains almost 300 images now. --Lymantria (talk) 12:17, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Fixed.
Fatal error: Uncaught Mediawiki\Api\UsageException: Code: titleblacklist-forbidden-edit Message: The title "File:IMG-20230527-WA0086.jpg" has been banned from creation. It matches the following disallowed titles list entry: " File:IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}.jpg # WhatsApp, e.g. File:IMG-20230409-WA0001.jpg" Result: {"error":{"code":"titleblacklist-forbidden-edit","info":"The title \"File:IMG-20230527-WA0086.jpg\" has been banned from creation. It matches the following disallowed titles list entry: \" File:IMG-\\d{8}-WA\\d{4}.jpg # WhatsApp, e.g. [[:File:IMG-20230409--Steinsplitter (talk) 13:04, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Declined renames and renaming stats

Hi Steinsplitter, these two are also not working. The 'declined renames' was updated today, 8 September, at 02:35 (CEST) for the last time, the 'stats', yesterday, 7 September, at 08:41 (CEST). I hope you can look at it, if it stays this way? Thanks, - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 11:51, 8 September 2023 (UTC) PS [1] and [2]

I hope you will have a look at these two? Thanks in advance - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 21:01, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Richardkiwi: Fixed :) --Steinsplitter (talk) 19:14, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi Steinsplitter, thanks a lot! - Danke ! Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 19:15, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

User:SteinsplitterBot/Previously deleted files

The bot seems to have broken. I understand that you have stopped developing tools and bots, but would you be willing to take a look as to why this might be? — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 20:10, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Working again. Thank you so much! — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 03:47, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

And it's broken again; it hasn't run since 13 September. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 17:44, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Still broken QTHCCAN (talk) 14:52, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello, This should be fixed now. --Steinsplitter (talk) 16:14, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

UDR archiving

Your bot has not archived UDR discussions for 3 days; can you look at this? Ankry (talk) 16:31, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

+1. Yann (talk) 18:04, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Fixed. --Steinsplitter (talk) 19:14, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Category moves down?

These seem to have been affected by the WMCS/Toolforge issues too. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 20:10, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Rotation of the File:01 Siebeneck-Archimedes-Animation.gif

Your bot obviously made a mistake here! Petrus3743 (talk) 06:10, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Looks like it made a mistake here also :(

File:Rothamsted plaque.jpg - Wikimedia Commons 193.10.98.235 12:12, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Template:PermissionTicket/Users

There is a strange sequence in the chrono of Template:PermissionTicket/Users/raw. Given that the table is incomplete I started investigating.

When the bot FuzzyBot moved Template:PermissionTicket/Users/raw from Template:OTRS/Users/raw on 27 May 2021 SteinsplitterBot blanked (15 December 2021) the page and then made two big changes (5 February). From that moment the table no longer contains the data in the second and third columns.

I tried looking for the source code but I couldn't find it. ZandDev (talk) 01:04, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Commons:List of administrators by recent activity

Hi, This page wasn't updated since 02:03, 8 September 2023‎. Thanks, Yann (talk) 13:04, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi, This is still not updated since 8 September 2023‎. Yann (talk) 09:30, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Yann: . This is fixed now. --Steinsplitter (talk) 15:24, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

File:Monseigneur Pacelli - 1920.jpg

File:Monseigneur Pacelli - 1920.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

81.41.175.237 15:52, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Rotazione fotografie

Salve, ho richiesto le rotazioni per le foto di queste due disposizioni foniche: https://it.wikibooks.org/wiki/Disposizioni_foniche_di_organi_a_canne/Italia/Lazio/Citt%C3%A0_metropolitana_di_Roma/Ariccia , due (2) volte. Questo mi accade quando dimentico di diminuire la definizione del cellulare. Come mai sono ancora nella stessa posizione? Grazie! Momimariani1962 (talk) 17:23, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

SteinsplitterBot

Hi! I think something's wrong with your bot. Please take a look at it. Thanks!!! Đại Việt quốc (talk) 04:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Files with only hidden categories- does this bot tag ALL these files with "Media needing categories as of ..."

@Steinsplitter, Files with only hidden categories, does this bot tag ALL these files with "Media needing categories as of ..."

I have found many files (weeks or months old) with only hidden files, but your bot apparently misses them. What can cause this bot to skip or miss tagging these files as "Media needing categories as of ...?" Thank you, -- Ooligan (talk) 16:39, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Rotation of image

Please, have a look at en:Rothamsted_Research. The image has been rotated. Why? How can I put it right in the article? Per W (talk) 05:47, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

I often must rotate it twice or thrice to make the picture show correctly in all pages. Jim.henderson (talk) 16:27, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Just want to say...

THANK YOU. You, and them people who take care of renaming files, demonstrate an amazing reactivity. I've fallen into "Category:Satellite pictures of Cuba", fascinating pics and some are ever so useful but need clearer indications and dispatching in more localized categs and it's such a huge categ I don't even dare looking at how many pages there are in there (don't tell!). Been into that for some days now, and more often than not I don't even have time to finish a series before you lot have already renamed and rotated the ones I've already done. Which 'incentives' me into (sleeping less for the sake of) doing some more (so there's some good and some bad there but the bad is mine entirely and) I'm still gobsmacked again and again at how goddamn fast you lot are. Thanks again. Pueblo89 (talk) 19:49, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

SteinsplitterBot

No rotations since 2023-11-17 --Tony Wills (talk) 17:39, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi and Schlurcher: could you please take a look? thx! RZuo (talk) 19:05, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Commons:Database reports/Users by log action

Hi Steinsplitter,
die Seite Commons:Database reports/Users by log action ist seit 8. September nicht mehr aktualisiert worden. --Túrelio (talk) 14:47, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

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Patches waiting for a push

HI, There are at least 2 issues about Video2Commons with patches which are waiting for submitting: [3] and [4]. Could you help please? Thanks, Yann (talk) 12:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

SteinsplitterBot tasks should be maintained by WMF

Hi, I see that functions fulfilled by SteinsplitterBot are regularly not done. As they are essential for correct operation of Commons, I think they should be taken over the WMF. I will fill up a feature request. What do you think? Yann (talk) 17:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

If you are looking for another community member to help/take over, I'd be willing to help; perhaps others would too. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:54, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757 I have added you to sbot & rotbot. best Steinsplitter (talk) 17:39, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

@Mdaniels5757: Thanks. You can ask on Phabricator to be added in the bot maintainer team. Yann (talk) 21:56, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

SteinsplitterBot didn't archive Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests since 20:54, 19 December 2023‎. Yann (talk) 14:05, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

And Commons:List of administrators by recent activity wasn't updated since 13:01, 18 December 2023‎. Thanks, Yann (talk) 15:48, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

• Commons:List of administrators by recent activity has been updated.
• Template:PermissionTicket/Users/raw has also been updated, with edit counts and admin status indicators restored.
• Updating User:SteinsplitterBot/Previously deleted files failed due to a connection issue. I hope the next run at 0:00 UTC will succeed; if not, I’ll try to debug the connection issue.
• Processing {{Move cat}} commands on User:CommonsDelinker/commands should also be ported, but it hasn’t been scheduled yet (and even if it was, there are no such commands currently).
• The code archiving Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests is quite different from the other ones. There is a README file on the server that states that the code is available at https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/bryan/bots/, but Toolserver has been shut down for years now… I have no idea whether and where that source code is available. 🙁 I fear I won’t be able to port it. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:55, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi and Mdaniels5757: Yes, Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests is still not archived. This looks like a simple archiving task, so tweaking ArchiverBot should work, isn't? Yann (talk) 10:46, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

@Yann: User:ArchiverBot wouldn’t work:

• It archives sections that haven’t seen activity for a certain amount of time, not sections that have been resolved. There are sections on the page right now that haven’t seen any activity for weeks. These would be archived by ArchiveBot without the files being undeleted or the requests being declined (or the handled requests would remain on the page for weeks due to the high timeout).
• It considers the text beginning with a ==-level heading and stopping before the next ==-level heading a topic. The {{Delh}} template, which is put before the heading, would therefore belong to the previous topic (request) as seen by the bot’s parser.

Tacsipacsi (talk) 14:05, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Stats + Declined

Hi, Steinsplitter, can you take a look at Commons:File renaming/Stats and Commons:File renaming/Recently declined rename requests? They are standing still. Thanks in advance. PS: maybe a good idea if WMF takes over the bots, or other users? (see above) - Richardkiwi (talk) (talk) 16:12, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

@Richardkiwi: I don’t think WMF should take over the bots; running bots is the privilege and responsibility of the community. Now there are three maintainers of the bot in addition to Steinsplitter (including me), so hopefully things will work out. Now I migrated the bots maintaining the two pages you mentioned. The latter has already been updated, the former should be updated within 24 hours. (I changed the scheduling of the former: previously it ran at 06:40 AM each day; now it’s configured to run daily, but at no specific time, so that the server can better balance resource usage. The latter used to, and continues to, run every five minutes. Of course, only runs that actually change the page are visible in the page history.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 16:58, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi User:SteinsplitterBot/Rotatebot is stuck again. RZuo (talk) 20:05, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

I see the in the logs:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Mediawiki\Api\UsageException: Code: titleblacklist-forbidden-edit
Message: The title "File:IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg" has been banned from creation. It matches the following disallowed titles list entry: " File:IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}.jpg # WhatsApp, e.g. [[:File:IMG-20230409-WA0001.jpg]]"
Result: {"error":{"code":"titleblacklist-forbidden-edit","info":"The title \"File:IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg\" has been banned from creation. It matches the following disallowed titles list entry: \" File:IMG-\\d{8}-WA\\d{4}.jpg # WhatsApp, e.g. [[:File:IMG-20230409-WA0001.jpg]]\"","filekey":"1al6gvv4tz24.u35whx.3714013.jpg","sessionkey":"1al6gvv4tz24.u35whx.3714013.jpg","invalidparameter":"filename","*":"See https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/postorius\/lists\/mediawiki-api-announce.lists.wikimedia.org\/> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."},"servedby":"mw2397"} in /data/project/rotbot/vendo in /data/project/rotbot/vendor/addwiki/mediawiki-api-base/src/MediawikiApi.php on line 407

which apparently prevents the removal of the lock file, stopping all future (hourly) runs until the cleanup process (which is ran at 0:00, 7:00, 14:00 and 21:00 UTC) removes the lock files. So there are multiple problems here:

• Why does the API reject as upload with the comment The title "File:IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg" has been banned from creation when the title File:IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg exists, the bot only wants to upload a new version of it? I think reuploads shouldn’t be blocked: there’s no way to upload a new version of the file IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg other than to upload it as IMG-20200422-WA0003.jpg.
• The bot shouldn’t crash on API errors. Just because it cannot rotate one file for whatever reason, it probably can rotate the next one, so it should go on.
• Even if there is an unexpected exception, the bot shouldn’t leave the lock file there. PHP has destructors, so putting the lock file removal to a destructor would guarantee that it’s run.
• Probably it shouldn’t use a lock file in the first place. The job scheduling system keeps track of whether the bot runs, so it should be (is? I don’t know) able to prevent the job from being started twice.
• And, actually, why is this file waiting to be renamed? It has a useless name, a useless description, useless content and no usage in WMF wikis. It should be deleted, not rotated. (However, it may be worth being kept as a test case until all the above bugs have been fixed.)

—Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:35, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

I deleted all files by this user: out of scope and probable copyright violations. Yann (talk) 14:10, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks for debugging and fixing. Merry Christmas! RZuo (talk) 17:19, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Nothing has been fixed, only the test case was deleted. 🙁 So we’ll probably run into this again. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

I’ve done a bit of cleanup before getting hit by the lack of test case, which I’ve now submitted as a pull request: https://github.com/toollabs/Rotatebot/pull/1. Could Steinsplitter or anyone else with wright access to the repo access the pull request? (Except for the indentation cleaup, it’s basically things that have already been there on Toolforge, just missing from the repo.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 09:25, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi a test case is coming soon, in 6h or so. :) RZuo (talk) 18:03, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: The Rotatebot function is stuck again since New Year's Eve. Anything you can do? --Rosenzweig τ 21:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi if that pull request was meant to also fix the titleblacklist problem, then it probably didnt work, because the bot is probably stuck on File:IMG-20230506-WA0015.jpg.

i will rename the file in a few days. RZuo (talk) 12:33, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

@RZuo: No, that pull request wasn’t meant to fix the titlebacklist problem. I planned to finish the fix for that during the holidays, but I didn’t manage to do that, and then I got busy with work and other IRL things. I finished and deployed it yesterday. Today I removed the lock functionality as the job scheduling system indeed prevents the job from being started twice. Unfortunately I managed to deploy the new scheduling configuration while the bot was running, so the on-wiki log will miss the nine already-processed images (and working through the backlog may take an hour more). I hope this won’t cause issues; the log file should contain all information the on-wiki log contains, although in a much less structured way. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:09, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

thx a lot for fixing the bot. RZuo (talk) 15:06, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

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Korrektur Drehung

Hallo Steinsplitter, Ich hatte um eine Drehung (Rotation) der File:Grafmonument van Adolf I van Nassau-Wiesbaden en Margarethe van Neurenberg.jpg um 90 Grad gebeten. Hier handelte es sich um einen Irrtum meinerseits. Ich bitte daher, die Drehung rückgängig zu machen bzw. das Bild um 270 Grad weiter zu drehen. Vielen Dank im Voraus Stuhlfauth Thomas 16.01.2024 18:24 CET — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuhlfauth Thomas (talk • contribs) 17:24, 16 January 2024 (UTC)