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Shubinator, I realize it has only been about seven weeks since I last asked, but I was hoping I could get a new list of the untranscluded nominations next time you have a chance to run one, now that I have a bit more free time. I'm hoping that there are fewer than last time, and that I can take care of them before they become too old. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:34, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Shubinator, the bot last ran at 01:33 today, yet there have been several approvals, a few nominations, and at least half a dozen promotions to prep in the past 7+ hours, any one of which would normally result in a twice-hourly bot check generating a new table. I took a look, and there weren't any missing tags (like having a small tag not cancelled out), at least not that I could see. Thanks for whatever you can do to get this running again. BlueMoonset (talk) 08:23, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
I've restarted both bots, they're back in action! Thanks for letting me know. The bot logs don't show anything unusual, so not sure what went wrong. Shubinator (talk) 04:55, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
DYKHousekeepingBot down?
The last update was at 10:48 UTC, and there have been many changes to the DYK list since then without a further update. (DYKUpdateBot ran at 12:00, but since the first DYKHousekeepingBot change wasn't until 13:26, that doesn't mean that both aren't down.) I did see whether there were any unclosed tags, like "small", causing issues, and didn't see any, but that doesn't mean I didn't miss something.
At any rate, please check both bots the next time you're online, and I'll add a warning to the DYK talk page that the bot may be down. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:24, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Well, DYKUpdateBot ran at 00:00, 18 September 2019 (UTC), so it's still in the game, but we still haven't heard from DYKHousekeepingBot. Please take a look when you get the chance. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:41, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
I've started up DYKHousekeepingBot, it's back in action! This time the bot's process itself was dead, again no indication why in the logs. Thanks for letting me know! Shubinator (talk) 06:50, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
(edit conflict) This time DYKHousekeepingBot stayed up, but DYKUpdateBot wasn't the only bot to go down around then—MusikBot also didn't do its DYK-related bot run (on Template talk:Did you know, where it adjust the Current nominations section every midnight); it's last update was at 22:40, so the interruption would likely have happened between then and midnight. DYKHousekeepingBot ran at 22:30, 00:00, and 01:00, so it survived whatever bot carnage was unleashed. Vanamonde did a manual update of the main page in DYKUpdateBot's absence, so we're all set until the next midnight, DYK having just gone back to one set a day with the manually updated set. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:28, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
This might be a clue as to why. For the last few hours, I've been sporadically getting this message across Wikipedia, Commons, etc.,"Our servers are currently under maintenance or experiencing a technical problem. Please try again in a few minutes. Error: 503, Backend fetch failed..." It's been going on for a while. — Maile (talk) 01:32, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Sounds like the same thing, the bot's logs show a ton of logspam around parsing Wikipedia's API results. It recovered on its own at ~01:19 UTC, and appears to be running smoothly now. Shubinator (talk) 05:08, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
There was a not so recent change to DYK nomination templates so that, after they are promoted, they are no longer disappear/hide on Talk pages in which they are hidden. This creates a strange effect on talk pages. See this edit I made. Can DYKUpdateBot be taught to recognize templates with prefix {{Did you know nominations/...}} and place {{DYK talk}} above them instead of below them? Cheers. --- Coffeeandcrumbs01:59, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Shubinator, it's been about eight weeks since the last list, so I was hoping you could run another one for me. It's easier if we get to them before they're too old, and I thought it would be nice to tackle them now rather than later. Whenever it's convenient for you is fine with me. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:33, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Thanks, Shubinator. Sorry to be so long getting back to you, but it's been unexpectedly busy the last few days, enough so that I'm only now checking back. I'll probably clean these up over the weekend. BlueMoonset (talk) 08:46, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
DYKUpdateBot did not update the main page at 00:00, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Shubinator, DYKUpdateBot didn't run at midnight UTC (about 25 minutes ago now). DYKHousekeepingBot is running, however, most recently at 00:05, 24 October 2019 (UTC), so it should be fine.
I have put out a call for admins to do a manual update; please check to see whether one is ongoing when you see this, since it could happen at any moment (or maybe not even for some time). Thank you very much! BlueMoonset (talk) 00:25, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
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Shubinator, DYKHousekeepingBot's last edit was at 23:16, 28 November 2019 (UTC). It should have run again about an hour later, since the Nominations page acquired the new listing for 29 November (edit at 00:01), plus a new nomination was transcluded at 05:11, which should have caused another bot edit at around 05:17. I suspect that the bot is down.
DYKUpdateBot did its run between 00:00 and 00:03, and then cleared its Errors at 00:13. This isn't a guarantee that it hasn't since gone down, but it would have been a short window between 00:13 and 00:16 or 00:17, when DYKHousekeepingBot was clearly down. Anyway, I'll leave it to you to check. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:36, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
Bot recovered on its own actually :) Looks like it was having trouble parsing the noms page and this was fixed up between 11:17 and 11:47. Happy Thanksgiving! Shubinator (talk) 07:58, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well! The odd thing is that, based on that information, the edit that would have messed things up was MusikBot adding the November 29 section at 00:01 here, and the one that fixed things would have been the edit at 11:35 that added a new nomination transclusion here. I don't see any other edits in the given time period to either the Nominations or Approved pages that might affect your bot. Very strange. Although, come to think of it, there might also have been an edit to one of the 300+ transcluded nominations that caused a problem in the hour after 23:16 that might have been fixed between 11:17 and 11:47. At least it's working now! Thanks for checking into it. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:13, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
Yet another new untranscluded DYK nominations list
Shubinator, I thought it would be a good idea to do an end-of-the-year cleanup of any untranscluded DYK nominations; you last generated one for me in early October. If you could get me a new list when you have time, that would be great. Many thanks, and I hope you're having a great holiday season. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:44, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
Okay, first round done. Do you think you'd mind if I asked for new lists every month to six weeks? This was quite a long list, and I'd like to catch them sooner. If that's too often, I'll keep to every other month if that's okay. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:10, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
