Synchbot

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Synchbot is a maintenance service that creates, edits, or deletes your user pages across Wikimedia wikis. To request changes to your user pages on all wikis, see How do I make a request?. For more info about the bot, see the FAQs.

Synchbot is run on the first weekend of each month. Next scheduled run: 6–7 April 2024.

Requests[edit]

See previous requests.

Green Mostaza (migrate to global user page)[edit]

request done:
Green Mostaza (global account · recent activity · user pages)
  • go to User:Green Mostaza on every wiki (except on meta)
  • and delete the page.
request_user = u'Green Mostaza',
request_titles = [u'User:Green Mostaza'],
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_new = True,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['meta'],
only_wikis = [],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Green Mostaza (talk) 15:58, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done! Deleted 16 user pages. The bot skipped n:User:Green Mostaza due to a (mistaken) local block history; you can request deletion for that page on that wiki or via Steward requests/Miscellaneous.
The following log shows what the bot did on each wiki. You can click the columns to sort the log.
summary:
timewikilogged action
18:38commons.wikimedia.orgmarked for deletion (was 2291 bytes).
18:38incubator.wikimedia.orgdeleted (was 672 bytes).
18:38www.mediawiki.orgdeleted (was 522 bytes).
18:38meta.wikimedia.orgskipped (in skip list).
18:38outreach.wikimedia.orgdeleted (was 723 bytes).
18:38es.wikibooks.orgdeleted (was 783 bytes).
18:38ca.wikipedia.orgdeleted (was 527 bytes).
18:39www.wikidata.orgdeleted (was 3592 bytes).
18:39en.wikipedia.orgdeleted (was 897 bytes).
18:39es.wikipedia.orgdeleted (was 6474 bytes).
18:39gl.wikipedia.orgdeleted (was 498 bytes).
18:39la.wikipedia.orgdeleted (was 437 bytes).
18:39en.wikinews.orgskipped (user has a block history).
18:39es.wikinews.orgdeleted (was 13267 bytes).
18:40es.wikiquote.orgdeleted (was 700 bytes).
18:40es.wikisource.orgdeleted (was 4541 bytes).
18:40es.wikivoyage.orgdeleted (was 1221 bytes).
18:41es.wiktionary.orgdeleted (was 902 bytes).
Pathoschild 18:43, 02 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mnafisalmukhdi1 (migrate to global user page)[edit]

request done:
Mnafisalmukhdi1 (global account · recent activity · user pages)
  • go to User:Mnafisalmukhdi1 on every wiki (except on id.wikisource.org, id.wikibooks.org)
  • and delete the page.
request_user = u'Mnafisalmukhdi1',
request_titles = [u'User:Mnafisalmukhdi1'],
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_new = True,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['id.wikisource.org', 'id.wikibooks.org'],
only_wikis = [],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Mnafisalmukhdi1 (talk) 01:57, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done! However you had no user pages to delete. —Pathoschild 18:53, 02 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ᱯᱨᱚᱯᱷᱮᱥᱥᱚᱨ (migrate to global user page)[edit]

request done:
ᱯᱨᱚᱯᱷᱮᱥᱥᱚᱨ (global account · recent activity · user pages)
  • go to User:ᱯᱨᱚᱯᱷᱮᱥᱥᱚᱨ on every wiki
  • and delete the page.
request_user = u'ᱯᱨᱚᱯᱷᱮᱥᱥᱚᱨ',
request_titles = [u'User:ᱯᱨᱚᱯᱷᱮᱥᱥᱚᱨ'],
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_new = True,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = [],
only_wikis = [],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

ᱯᱨᱚᱯᱷᱮᱥᱥᱚᱨ (talk) 06:26, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done! Deleted three user pages.
The following log shows what the bot did on each wiki. You can click the columns to sort the log.
summary:
timewikilogged action
18:54commons.wikimedia.orgmarked for deletion (was 0 bytes).
18:54incubator.wikimedia.orgdeleted (was 2847 bytes).
18:54meta.wikimedia.orgskipped (cannot delete global user page).
18:56sat.wikipedia.orgdeleted (was 2873 bytes).
Pathoschild 18:57, 02 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nico Düsing (migrate to global user page)[edit]

request done:
Nico Düsing (global account · recent activity · user pages)
  • go to User:Nico Düsing on every wiki (except on meta.wikimedia.org, de.wikipedia.org)
  • and delete the page.
request_user = u'Nico Düsing',
request_titles = [u'User:Nico Düsing'],
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_new = True,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['meta.wikimedia.org', 'de.wikipedia.org'],
only_wikis = [],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Nico Düsing (Diskussion) 21:59, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Done! Deleted nine user pages.
The following log shows what the bot did on each wiki. You can click the columns to sort the log.
summary:
timewikilogged action
18:59commons.wikimedia.orgmarked for deletion (was 1802 bytes).
18:59meta.wikimedia.orgskipped (in skip list).
18:59de.wikibooks.orgdeleted (was 1630 bytes).
18:59www.wikidata.orgdeleted (was 1630 bytes).
18:59de.wikipedia.orgskipped (in skip list).
18:59en.wikipedia.orgdeleted (was 1872 bytes).
19:00de.wikinews.orgdeleted (was 1630 bytes).
19:00simple.wikipedia.orgdeleted (was 1920 bytes).
19:00de.wikisource.orgdeleted (was 1771 bytes).
19:01de.wikiversity.orgdeleted (was 1724 bytes).
19:01de.wiktionary.orgdeleted (was 1630 bytes).
Pathoschild 19:04, 02 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sette-quattro (migrate to global user page)[edit]

request queued:
Sette-quattro (global account · recent activity · user pages)
  • go to User:Sette-quattro on every wiki
  • and delete the page.
request_user = u'Sette-quattro',
request_titles = [u'User:Sette-quattro'],
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_new = True,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = [],
only_wikis = [],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Sette-quattro (talk) 14:21, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FAQs[edit]

How do I make a request?[edit]

Here's how to submit a Synchbot task. If you're not sure how to fill in the template, just choose one below and add a comment explaining what you want. There's no approval process; your request will be handled in the next batch! Make sure you watch this page in case of questions.

To migrate to your global user page (delete your local User pages):
  1. Optional: add a comment before ~~~~ or edit the template with any specifics (e.g. pages to skip).
To migrate to your global CSS and JavaScript pages (delete your local *.css and *.js pages):
  1. Optional: add a comment before ~~~~ or edit the template with any specifics (e.g. pages to skip).
For a custom request:
  1. Edit the template values:
    field how to edit it
    user The name of the user who owns the pages. The default is your current username.
    action What you want the bot to do. This can be replace (overwrite pages with the new text), prepend (insert the new text at the top of the page), append (insert the new text at the bottom of the page), or delete (delete all pages).
    title The title of the page you want edited on every wiki.
    text The text you want placed on the edited pages. A few guidelines:
    • Don't add categories or templates, because they probably don't exist on most wikis.
    • Use interwiki links to link to a specific wiki (like [[m:Article]] for a page on Meta). Don't use interlanguage links (like [[en:Article]] instead of [[w:en:Article]]), unless you really want to link to a different wiki depending on the current project.
    • For a user page, use something simple and informative. Most people provide a few sentences about themselves with a link to their main user page. Consider using your global user page instead.
    skip wikis A list of wikis to skip (in addition to auto-skipped wikis). You can use a wildcard (like pt.* to skip all Portuguese wikis). The format doesn't really matter.
    skip existing Whether to skip pages that already exist.
  2. Watch this page in case I have questions. Otherwise it will be done soon! :)

How long will it take?[edit]

The 'next scheduled run' date at the top of the page shows when requests will be handled. All open requests are typically handled within one day of that date.

What can the bot do?[edit]

The bot can create, edit, or delete any of your user pages. It will edit almost all Wikimedia wikis (except private wikis, fishbowl wikis, and loginwiki).

It's very flexible and supports custom logic (e.g. edits which depend on the page size/history/content, prepending text, regex search & replace, etc). If you have a custom requirement, feel free to ask the bot operator whether it's possible.

What are the limitations?[edit]

The bot has a specific scope based on its global permission requests and local community expectations.

The bot will not...

  • protect pages;
  • rename pages;
  • delete talk pages (unless you're the only editor);
  • delete your main user page on Meta;
  • delete pages on wikis where you have a block history;
  • change pages outside the User or User talk namespaces.

There are also limits on specific wikis:

wiki limitations
ar.wikipedia.org Per request, the bot will place a speedy-delete template instead of deleting pages.
commons.wikimedia.org Per request, the bot will place a speedy-delete template instead of deleting pages.
sv.wikipedia.org Per request, the bot won't remove discussions on talk pages.

What is Synchbot?[edit]

Synchbot is a bot which makes an automated change to a specific page title on all matching wikis. It's been run by Pathoschild since 2008. The bot uses the global deleter and global editinterface permissions, and runs under a web of permissions, exceptions, and special cases negotiated with local communities.

Historically this was used to support global user pages from 2008 to 2015 (now part of global user pages), global CSS/JS from 2008 to 2014 (now available via your global.css or your global.js), and crosswiki account creation from 2009 to 2011 (now part of unified login). Now it's mainly used to delete local pages that are no longer needed due to the new global user page features.

See also[edit]