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Russbot wait

Russbot currently waits 7+1 days for new category redirects. I wonder if this could be shortened to 2+1 days for categories with 5 or few entries. Enhancing999 (talk) 11:09, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm trying to think of how this would be implemented, and it seems difficult. The number of entries in a category can change from day to day; what happens if it has 100 entries on day 1 but only 3 entries on day 2? Or vice versa? And to the extent there is a problem, it is easily solved by any editor who wants to do so moving the entries to the new category manually (which only takes a few clicks using Cat-a-lot). R'n'B (talk) 12:59, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

I suppose it would have to check on day 3, but day 1 could be sufficient as I'd assume it decreases.

The problem with cat-a-lot is that it's somewhat broken when it cames to subcategories. Enhancing999 (talk) 13:09, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Russbot crash

The bot didn't go through it's daily run: see Special:Contributions/RussBot, stopping at 09:12 Enhancing999 (talk) 12:50, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that happens from time to time (relatively frequently). It's usually due to database server errors, not script errors, in which case I just wait for the next daily run. --R'n'B (talk) 12:54, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Ok. It worked fine over the last couple of weeks. Enhancing999 (talk) 13:10, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

It came back and worked fine until yesterday at 11:35 ("Train"). Hasn't restarted today yet. Enhancing999 (talk) 05:51, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Today it stopped at 07:48 ("Distribuidora"). Enhancing999 (talk) 10:02, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Stuck in redirects

For your info: Commons:Village_pump#Stuck_in_category_redirects and User talk:RussBot/category redirect log. Enhancing999 (talk) 13:06, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Honestly, my impression over the years is that no one cares about images/pages being categorized correctly. If you want to spend the time and effort to clean up some of this stuff, more power to you. However, getting anyone else to pay enough attention to the issues to develop a consensus on what the correct category name(s) should be will, in many cases, be a challenge. --R'n'B (talk) 14:17, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

People do get interested once one selects a few from a category to illustrate Wikipedia (though in some languages they care differently than in others).

I think it's more important to get similar images in the same category than how one actually names them. As for the list, I'm not sure how much it slows down the bot. Enhancing999 (talk) 14:25, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

The 1800 files that remained in Category:PD Afghanistan for three weeks (category moved, files moved) may have taken 24 minutes to skip each day [1]. Enhancing999 (talk) 10:32, 2 June 2024 (UTC)