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16:00, 3 March 2012 (UTC) updaate by DYKUpdateBot

FYI,

DYKUpdateBot did not perform its scheduled 16:00, 3 March 2012 (UTC) update. If you get a chance, please take a look to see if there are any outstanding issues. --Allen3 ^talk 17:57, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Willow (the server DYKUpdateBot runs on) ran out of memory. Bot restarted. (Sorry for the delay, in the middle of hosting a multi-day event.) Shubinator (talk) 23:51, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK 4th March 2012

William Bloomfield Douglas is cited has having a DYK entry on 4th March, however, it does not appear on the DYK recent additions list. Shipsview (talk) 11:42, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

The Recent additions page lists them by the time (UTC) they were removed from the DYK template. The Douglas hook appears in the last set under 5 March. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:51, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Yup, Mandarax is right. Thanks Mandarax! Shubinator (talk) 23:04, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you - must have been inside the time lapse. Shipsview (talk) 11:28, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK update bot failed

to update at 0 UTC 10 March (and I missed that too, Orlady updated manually). Materialscientist (talk) 04:12, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Some other bot functions are also not getting done. Wikipedia:Did you know/DYK hook count has not updated in several hours. --Orlady (talk) 04:25, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Willow (the Toolserver server) got rebooted unexpectedly around 9 hours ago. Hopefully Toolserver maintenance this week will fix these issues... (Oh, and I've restarted both bots.) Shubinator (talk) 06:02, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

DYKcheck and page moves

DYKcheck appears to no longer detect moves from userspace. I assume this is because the format of the edit summary when making a move has changed. The edit summary used to be in the form "moved oldfilename to newfilename[: reason]" and now it's "Username moved page oldfilename to newfilename[: reason]". DYK reviewers often miss such moves, so DYKcheck pointing them out is quite useful. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 09:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Yup, that would do it. I'll try to fix it by Monday. Thanks for letting me know! Shubinator (talk) 13:46, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. Sorry for the delay, unexpected stuff came up this weekend. Thanks again :) Shubinator (talk) 02:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that. Now I have a related request. It would be nice if DYKcheck could also handle moves from Articles for creation. For example, a user initially disapproved an article, stating that it was "over 104 days old". This surely indicates that he did use DYKcheck, which does not mention the page move. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:17, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable, I'll put it on my to-do list. Shubinator (talk) 00:03, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK bot apparently failed

A DYK update was due 10 minutes ago, but the bot hasn't shown up yet. Can you kick it to make it happen? (Otherwise, we can do a manual update.) --Orlady (talk) 19:19, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Doing... Shubinator (talk) 19:25, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Done. Bot's output doesn't show anything unusual...it just seems to have stopped working... Shubinator (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks much! Your bot work is wonderful. I'm afraid we take it for granted until something stops working. --Orlady (talk) 19:50, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks :) Yeah, it's doing a good job of being an "invisible hand", and something goes wrong often enough that the regulars know the bot exists :P Shubinator (talk) 21:05, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

The bot is stuck again! Please re-start. Thanks. --70.31.8.76 (talk) 15:08, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Doing. Shubinator (talk) 15:13, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Done. Looks like Toolserver connectivity issues again... Shubinator (talk) 15:18, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Dispute resolution survey

Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Shubinator. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 02:04, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

DYKHousekeepingBot has stopped work

No updates to Wikipedia:Did you know/DYK hook count in the last 18-19 hours. --Orlady (talk) 14:19, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Restarted. Looks like willow ran out of memory... Shubinator (talk) 14:28, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

It's happened again. No action in the last 8 hours. --Orlady (talk) 03:51, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Restarted. This time looks like connectivity issues between Toolserver and Wikipedia. Thanks for the notice! Shubinator (talk) 04:50, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

George Rathmann

With this recent death of this native Milwaukeean, I found the impulse to create a stub about him irresistible. I hope you will have a look and help improve it, since you've worked on ICOS. There are several articles online about him, as well as an extensive oral history interview (not, alas, online). --Orange Mike | Talk 14:57, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I'd thought of creating the article before, but didn't find the time. I'll keep it on my radar :) Shubinator (talk) 15:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC)