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Replacing Firefly reminder

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Before /Archive_16#Replacing_Firefly was archived, you had asked me to send you a reminder. And I was reminded when I saw this today: Request WP:Requests for undeletion § Draft:God is my Co-Pilot (1943 Book) came because it was the second G13 for this draft, and the 1-month warnings go for the first G13 only, not subsequent ones. Jay 06:59, 14 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Also, in the archived thread, you had asked me for any cases where FireflyBot failed to notify a draft creator. It appears the 1-month G13 warning did not go out for Draft:Sheikhzadas of Lucknow. Jay 15:18, 4 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for the late reply. I don't mind adding this, but I'm not sure I like the idea of running a separate task just to catch the notifications FireflyBot misses while FireflyBot still handles the rest. It feels like we'd be splitting one job between two bots. Since my bot already has an approved backup task and FireflyBot has been inactive maintenance wise for quite a while (Firefly last edited 1 year 9 months ago), maybe it makes more sense to look at replacing the whole 30 day task notification instead. FireflyBot's other active task would still need someone to take it over though. Pinging @Primefac for their thoughts. – DreamRimmer 15:52, 4 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
If there are improvements/changes needed for a bot that is still running but not maintained, and a willing botop to take over the task, then I don't see any issue with that. Fortunately FireflyBot has shutoffs for each individual task, so it's not like we need to kill the entire bot just to tweak one task. I could see an extension of DR's bot task to be the main bot rather than the backup (though any improvements would need their own BRFA as an extension operation probably). Primefac (talk) 22:40, 4 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
I agree we should not have a bot catch another bot's misses. I just mentioned it because you had asked for examples earlier. For the 2nd and subsequent warnings, if we can have DreamRimmer bot do that, instead of waiting for someone to take up ownership of Firefly, that will significantly reduce the load at WP:RfU. A lot of requests at RfU come minutes or hours after a G13 deletion, just because the editor was not aware that their draft is going to be deleted. Today's case: WP:Requests for undeletion § Draft:Ralph Axelrod (politician). Jay 05:13, 6 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Block review

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Hello! I'm advocating for the unblock of two new editors (User:Treaty07 and User:Ngozi16) who joined my outreach event in June 2026 and were blocked for alleged sock puppetry. I believe this was a false positive and have tried to discuss with the admin involved, but it has been futile and they're no longer responsive. I could really use your help. See full discussion here. Best, King ChristLike (talk) 17:51, 24 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2026-31

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:47, 27 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Article Mirud(Kengetar)

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Hello, @DreamRimmer. I am the subject of this article. I wanted to let you know that this matter has been referred to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and ArbCom following advice from English Wikipedia administrators. I have submitted evidence showing what I believe to be ongoing harassment and attempted extortion connected to articles about me across multiple Wikimedia projects. I am not accusing you of any wrongdoing. I only ask that you review the circumstances surrounding the deletion, as I believe the nomination may have been influenced by abusive reports rather than the merits of the article. Please also see the current discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mirudofficial#c-J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano-20260731155100-Mirudofficial-20260731050900

Thank you for your time. Mirudofficial (talk) 22:17, 31 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

How does this relate to me? Could you explain a bit? You've pinged me almost 16 times on different talk pages and in discussions, which is a bit disruptive. – DreamRimmer 11:29, 1 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

DreamRimmer bot III task 5

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Hi DreamRimmer, do you mind configuring your bot to upload more regularly now that the August AfC drive has started? Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:55, 1 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Changing it to daily. – DreamRimmer 06:43, 2 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to the drive!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome DreamRimmer! I'm glad that you are joining the August 2026 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Cielquiparle (talk) 22:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 2 August 2026

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  • On the bright side: The beautiful game
    2026 Men's FIFA World Cup, Wikimania music, and wikipress.
  • Traffic report: Odyssey and Oyarzabal
    To take you in the sun to (Ithaca), to show you the World Cup, it's the time of the season for editing!

Notification of administrators without tools

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Greetings, DreamRimmer. You are receiving this notification because you've agreed to consider endorsing prospective admin candidates identified by the process outlined at Administrators without tools. Recently, the following editor(s) received this distinction and the associated endearing title:
  • Thank you for supporting this effort. Your contributions are an integral part of overall success, and an example for others to follow.
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TolBot (talk) 21:00, 2 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2026-32

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:44, 3 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Bot stopped updating

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Hi,

It looks like the August 2026 Unreferenced article backlog drive leaderboard was updating hourly but stopped at 09:15 this morning.

Could you please wake your bot back up...?

(Or should we feed it anything?) Cielquiparle (talk) 19:32, 4 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Fixed. – DreamRimmer 03:38, 5 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
Many thanks! Cielquiparle (talk) 03:47, 5 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

My talk page archive button missing

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Hey. It's been a long time since we had a chit chat. Hope you are doing well. I don't know what has happened because the archive button from my talk page is missing. This same problem happened few weeks ago. That time I reinstalled or did something after which the one click archiver button again showed up. Few days ago the same problem happened. I thought it would automatically fix. But it's been quite a long time and I need to archive some of the topics in my talk page. Since I personally that know you are one of the most technical knowledgeable person in the site, I thought of directly coming and asking to you. Any guesses what could be the problem? Thilsebatti (talk) 02:58, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

I'm good, it's really nice to hear from you after such a long time. Hope all is well with you too. I checked your common.js and it looks like you have two archiving scripts installed. Please remove the last one and keep Elli's. I've added a config to your talk page, so the archive button should work now. You should see the archive option on the right of each section. Let me know if you have any trouble with it. – DreamRimmer 11:45, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks a lot. It's working now. Thilsebatti (talk) 15:50, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Problem with the hashtag

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Hello, I would like to remind you about the edit that I made on a wikipedia page. The leaderboard hasn't updated yet.


When I made an edit today, i forgot to put the "#AUG26" hashtag, so i made a dummy edit to include it and mentioned to check the previous edit. The wiki page is "OHSEAN." Cookie cream38 (talk) 06:05, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

I see your point has already been updated on the leaderboard. Is there anything else that needs my attention? – DreamRimmer 11:27, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Help with a mentee question

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Hi DreamRimmer! Hope you are doing well. Are you able to reply to a mentee question at User talk:HouseBlaster#Question from Servis.006 (20:43, 9 August 2026)? It looks like Turkish, and you are listed in that section at WP:EMB. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:55, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Nevermind; looks like this mentee got blocked. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:22, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – August 2026

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Tech News: 2026-33

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:43, 10 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 88#Web scrapping v3

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Could you do the same with these journals?

https://www.nature.com/siteindex

E.g.

  • Acta Pharmacologica Sinica / 10.1038/s41401-026-01850-5

There aren't all open access, but I can easily figure out which are. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:54, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Failed to get results for 24 journals. – DreamRimmer 10:40, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
Those are likely journals that moved to new publishers or haven't yet been published. Either way, thanks a bunch, I can take care of the other 24 manually. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 11:27, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

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SodiumBot (botop|talk|contribs) 18:31, 13 August 2026 (UTC)Reply