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Bot appears to have a hiccup

Mike Christie. Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:55, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Will take a look tonight if possible. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:59, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Restarted it and will keep an eye on it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:07, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Nominator information

Hi @Mike Christie:. I hope you're doing well. Can you please look at crystalite listed GAN articles, the nominator info didn't added by the bot. I have checked it but didn't able to locate problem. So, I request you to look into it. Thank you! Fade258 (talk) 02:06, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're asking for -- that page isn't updated by ChristieBot. I think it's manually updated. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:09, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh. I think i missed that. But tell me to add nom info automatically by bot, where and what should be improved? Fade258 (talk) 02:13, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm still not clear what you're asking. Can you paste here whatever error message you're seeing, and say what it is that you were trying to do or expecting to see? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:07, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Mike Christie. Well, I didnot see any error messages but when I see here, as bot didnot add nominator name there. Please look into it. Fade258 (talk) 16:10, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

I see -- yes, that's definitely an error on the bot's part. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do to fix that sort of error. It happens when the bot is in the middle of processing a nomination and the operating system decides to kill the bot because resources are running low. When that happens the bot can't complete its tasks and when it starts up again it doesn't know that it did not succeed in adding the nominator line, so it doesn't try again. Fortunately this is quite rare. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:25, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

Bot can't deal with immensely long note field in GA nominee for Marcus Eli Ravage

Mike Christie, there's a note of over a dozen lines recently added to the GA nominee template on Talk:Marcus Eli Ravage, which ChristieBot can't deal with, so it keeps trying to process it every time ChristieBot runs. Not sure what you want to do about it—maybe the bulk of the note can be extracted to the talk page of the article?—but it's going to try again and again until something's done. Thought you'd want to know. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:59, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm about to be out of commission for at least a day, and possibly longer, so I would suggest shortening the note for now. I can look into lengthening the note field but it wouldn't happen till some time next week at the earliest and probably not till later than that. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 06:31, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Could you add Featured Lists in addition to GAs and FAs that you already have?

The current_facs report seems very useful. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:15, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, this isn't possible. The featured article stats depend on manual labor, including going through every FAC candidacy for the last twenty years. That work has not been done for featured lists, and I don't have the time or energy to do it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:25, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok, no problem. I'll look at the source code when I'm free and see if there's anything I can borrow for a cloned tool in that case. I hope you don't mind questions if I'm unable to understand something about your code/process. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:29, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

No problem at all, but the code you can access here is only for the GA side of things, since the FAC piece can't work independently. The functionality that can't be fully automated is the determination of who supported/opposed each FL candidate. If you're only interested in statistics for nominators -- how many nominated, how many promoted -- that's doable and I can give you code that could pretty easily be modified; it's the analysis of reviews that is not automatable. You'd need a toolforge account if you don't already have one. The bot is in Python and MariaDB. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:34, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Cool. I think for FLs we can do with a subset of what you've created for FAs. Oppose stats are not as important IMO. I do have a toolforge account and have created tools there. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:39, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

OK, send me an email and I'll reply with some code and some details. Probably today but it will be a complicated email so might take a while to put together. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:04, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

I'll only be free for this after a few weeks, so I don't want you to put in any effort until it is necessary. Don't worry, I'll send you an email if I get stuck on something and need the whole source code. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 12:10, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

OK, I'll send you the code, the table structures, and a brief overview of how it fits together; feel free to email me with any questions. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:14, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

No review notification

Hello, I noticed that one of my articles, Eshu (collection), was picked up for review yesterday, but the bot didn't notify me on my talk page. Not sure if this is a me problem or a repeat glitch but figured I'd give you a heads up. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 13:35, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

For much of yesterday the bot was getting terminated by system processes, presumably because system load was high. When that happens and the bot has done part of a process it can't pick up the second half, so I'm pretty sure that's what happened to your nomination. I did make a change recently to add "has passed" or "has failed" to the nominator talk page messages, but I don't think that can have caused the problem. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:43, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Okay, no problem! Just wanted to check :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 14:16, 2 February 2026 (UTC)