User talk:Lahwaacz.bot

marking AUR links to pkgbase as broken link

hi, your bot marked a policyd^AUR link as broken (on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Postfix&diff=next&oldid=431606#Rule-based_mail_processing). the pkgbase policyd exists, but packages derived from it have different names. can you fix this please? thank you! Fordprefect (talk) 18:05, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi, that's a general problem of the Template:AUR, which works only for packages and not pkgbases. For policyd^AUR the link does not work, it leads to a 404 page. I think that this behaviour is fine because users can install only packages and not pkgbases. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 18:53, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Hm, I see the problem here. How could i implement a link to https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/policyd with the AUR annotation? Fordprefect (talk) 18:59, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Ok fixed it: policyd^AUR Fordprefect (talk) 19:03, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Hmm, that's not perfect either, because users expect such links to be packages that can be installed—on the other hand, pkgbases can't be installed. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 16:30, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Removes title case, is this desired?

I noticed this bot just swept through and some links from title case to quasi-sentence case. This seems like incorrect behavior to me. In English writing, proper nouns are supposed to be capitalized, and technical writing has a lot of proper nouns. A bot can't possibly tell the difference between a proper noun like "[EFI System Partition]" and the same words as common nouns in "your [system partition]". Should we respond to edits we disagree with using "undo", or will the bot just make the same change on a second pass?

—This unsigned comment is by Bobpaul (talk) 15:17, 3 July 2018‎. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

The ArchWiki does not use title case even in page titles, see the rule in Help:Style#Title. For links to pages, using the same capitalization as the target page is preferable (see also Help:Style#Hypertext metaphor). So, generally, the edits were correct, though if you have a specific controversial case we can debate it further. Also, the "(interactive)" suffix in the edit summaries means that a human sat behind a keyboard and pressed "yes" to confirm each change. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 15:31, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Dead link with SSL error status

Hi. It looks like this edit is wrong: [1]. I tried to follow the link and it is working. Also I check the link in the original article — it is actually the same link like in the russian wiki, but not marked as dead and is working fine too. -- Duodai (talk) 09:31, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

The bot is using requests and this query is returning certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate. I don't know enough SSL to know what is the problem... -- Lahwaacz (talk) 11:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Firefox says that the certificate for www.tablesgenerator.com expires on February 10, 2022. Anyway I fixed the link. Maybe http replacement on https helps, I don't know. -- Duodai (talk) 12:20, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Removing English Interlanguage Link

This bot has been removing English interlanguage link from my translated pages such as Arch Linux (বাংলা), Main page (বাংলা)....Why? -- FOSS ভক্ত (talk) 07:03, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

The links will be added automatically when the language is added to the interlanguage table. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 11:22, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Marking bot edits as minor edit

I think this bot's edits should be marked as minor edit, so the system won't send notification emails about the article being changed. -- Huupoke12 (talk) 04:19, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi, it's not that simple because then MediaWiki would not send notifications even for normal user edits that follow after a minor bot edit. That's because the minor bot edit would still be recorded as unread in the watchlist table, it would just not send the notification email, so it would be waiting until you visit the page again before sending the next notification for the page. — Lahwaacz (talk) 16:53, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi, is it possible for edits made by this bot to be recorded as bot edits ? since the edits are neither marked (m) nor (b) they all show up in watchlists, even if both minor and bot edits are supposedly filtered out.

-- Cvlc (talk) 07:21, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

I explicitly want the wiki to send notifications for bot edits, because they should still be reviewed. Unfortunately email notifications for bots are seriously broken (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358087#10223291) so I removed Lahwaacz.bot from the bot group yesterday. Note that the most serious bug is actually Notifications stop after bot edits until page is manually viewed or watchlist is marked as read... — Lahwaacz (talk) 07:50, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Hmm, I understand but this is going to make everyone's watchlist basically unreadable. Any idea how to work around this ? Cvlc (talk) 08:52, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

As a temporary solution it looks like they can be filtered out by unchecking wiki-scripts in advanced filters. Works for me but it might affect a lot of people. Cvlc (talk) 08:56, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Also note that the bot is done for the weekend and won't be making so many edits any time soon. Or rather I might try running it more often to spread out the amount of edits...

By the way, do you speak PHP? Maybe we can bribe you to fix the MediaWiki issues 😂

— Lahwaacz (talk) 10:05, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Haha no sorry :) Cvlc (talk) 18:44, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Taking this discussion in a new course, I think minor edits still should be labelled as minor edits but not for the purposes as email notifications as described here but for the triviality of the edit. For example, ASUS Linux had an edit from this bot account where it removed 2 spaces and helped clean it up a bit, which is trivial enough to warrant a minor edit. To cite Help:Editing, it is superficial and indisputable and Wikipedia: Help:Minor_edit#Exceptions, where bot account edits should be considered minor. However I do agree that if a major edit is made it should not tag it as a minor edit. TheKnightSky (talk) 12:05, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Of course in an ideal world they should be marked as minor edits, but it is not possible due to MediaWiki bugs, namely Notifications stop after bot edits until page is manually viewed or watchlist is marked as read as mentioned in the earlier replies... — Lahwaacz (talk) 12:14, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Then this should be added as a note, preferably at Help:Editing#Editing, that bot account edits are exempted for the timebeing from marking edits as minor until the notification error at so and so in this thread is resolved, it would help reduce the confusion for new and existing users. Should I add it there?

Thanks for the reply! TheKnightSky (talk) 12:59, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Help:Editing is for people, not bots. — Lahwaacz (talk) 13:22, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Archwiki:Bots#wiki-scripts then? TheKnightSky (talk) 13:31, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Ok thanks. — Lahwaacz (talk) 14:13, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Bot account

I suspect that it is not correct that this account is not considered to be a bot...

I don't see it here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=bot Karakurt (talk) 12:59, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

See the discussion above: "I removed Lahwaacz.bot from the bot group" — andreymal (talk) 13:17, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Ah, got it. I wasn't wrong, but bot handling isn't right either, so we have what we have.

Didn't read it right away because I wasn't expecting it to be related. Karakurt (talk) 17:16, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

No problem, but this can be closed.