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Have MirahezeIRC bot ignore several system users in #miraheze-feed
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Request: Following my trying to add the bot flag to the Delete page script system user on trollpastawikiwiki for a mass deletion of some 40,000+ Fandom CommentStreams page remnants, @Reception123 and I learned that MirahezeRC (the SRE-operated IRC feed bot) does not care about the bot flag (at least those of system users, anyway) whereas MirahezeBot does regard the bot/flood flag. However, because #miraheze-feed is what MirahezeBot uses to read for the wiki-specific IRC feeds, delays in #miraheze-feed have cascading downstream impacts. So the request is this for the Infrastructure (SRE) team to have MirahezeRC ignore the following system users from #miraheze-feed:

  1. Delete page script
  2. Maintenance script
  3. Move page script

Thank you.

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Dmehus triaged this task as High priority.May 14 2021, 15:36
Dmehus created this task.
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Dmehus moved this task from Incoming to Short Term on the Infrastructure (SRE) board.May 14 2021, 15:36
Reception123 lowered the priority of this task from High to Normal.May 14 2021, 15:38
Dmehus added a comment.May 14 2021, 15:38

Lowering priority to normal per discussion with @Reception123

Dmehus added a subscriber: Paladox.May 14 2021, 15:39

Adding @Paladox to this task as he may want to take on this task as it's in one of the Infrastructure-managed repos

John subscribed.May 14 2021, 15:42

MediaWiki decides what to send to the IRC bot, so if the bot flag isn’t being respected, this is a bug in the MediaWiki code that should be fixed rather than modifying the python script to search through an encoded entry to find the user param and compare it.

Dmehus added a comment.May 14 2021, 17:05

@Reception123 Can you try running the deleteBatch.php maintenance script, specifying -u Miraheze maintenance script -r [[phab:T7310|Requested]] on the following pages on testwiki?

Avengium test page
Mattias (discipel)1
Micha1
Move test on the run
Move test on the run/some subpage
TestWiki:SYSOP

Note that you may need to force attach Miraheze maintenance script to testwiki as it's a real user account now

Reception123 added a comment.May 14 2021, 17:15

Done

John edited projects, added MediaWiki (SRE); removed Infrastructure (SRE).May 14 2021, 17:16
Dmehus added a comment.May 14 2021, 17:17
In T7310#145406, @Reception123 wrote:

Done

Thanks...this worked. So I'm going to close this as resolved, by this workaround. We'll need to update the SRE docs to ensure SRE adds -u Miraheze maintenance script to all relevant maintenance script runs

Dmehus closed this task as Resolved.May 14 2021, 17:17
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