Synchbot

Synchbot is a maintenance service that creates, edits, or deletes user pages across Wikimedia projects in every language. 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.

To request changes to your user pages on all wikis, see How do I make a request?.

Synchbot

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Requests

See previous requests.

Maëlan (talk)

request done:

Maëlan (global account · recent activity · user pages · previous requests)

• go to User:Maëlan on every wiki (except on metawiki)
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Maëlan',
request_title = u'User:Maëlan',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['metawiki'],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Maëlan (talk) 00:36, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Done! Deleted one user page.

The following log shows what the bot did on each wiki. You can click the columns to sort the log.

summary:

time	wiki	logged action
02:42	meta.wikimedia.org	skipped (in skip list).
02:55	fr.wikipedia.org	deleted (was 1438 bytes).

—Pathoschild 03:39, 07 August 2016 (UTC)

Revilovs (talk)

request queued:

Revilovs (global account · recent activity · user pages)

• go to User:Revilovs on every wiki (except on metawiki)
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Revilovs',
request_title = u'User:Revilovs',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['metawiki'],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Revilovs (talk) 13:47, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Daniel749 talk

request queued:

Daniel749 (global account · recent activity · user pages)

• go to User:Daniel749 on every wiki (except on de.*, en.*, pl.*, metawiki, commons, wikidata)
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Daniel749',
request_title = u'User:Daniel749',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['de.*', 'en.*', 'pl.*', 'metawiki', 'commons', 'wikidata'],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Daniel749 talk 23:19, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Ruslik (talk)

request queued:

Ruslik0 (global account · recent activity · user pages · previous requests)

• go to User:Ruslik0 on every wiki (except on metawiki, commons, enwiki, ru.*)
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Ruslik0',
request_title = u'User:Ruslik0',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['metawiki', 'commons', 'enwiki', 'ru.*'],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Ruslik (talk) 20:23, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Metamorforme42 (talk)

request queued:

Metamorforme42 (global account · recent activity · user pages)

• go to User:Metamorforme42 on every wiki (except on metawiki, frwiki, wikidata)
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Metamorforme42',
request_title = u'User:Metamorforme42',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['metawiki', 'frwiki', 'wikidata'],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Metamorforme42 (talk) 23:23, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Jan sewi (talk)

request queued:

Jan sewi (global account · recent activity · user pages)

• go to User:Jan sewi on every wiki
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Jan sewi',
request_title = u'User:Jan sewi',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = [],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Jan sewi (talk) 14:01, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Metamorforme42 (talk)

request queued:

Metamorforme42 (global account · recent activity · user pages)

• go to User:Louis Royer on every wiki
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Metamorforme42',
request_title = u'User:Louis Royer',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = [],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Metamorforme42 (talk) 20:14, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Metamorforme42 (talk)

request queued:

Metamorforme42 (global account · recent activity · user pages)

• go to User talk:Louis Royer on every wiki
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Metamorforme42',
request_title = u'User talk:Louis Royer',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = [],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Metamorforme42 (talk) 20:14, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Benoit Rochon (talk)

request queued:

Benoit Rochon (global account · recent activity · user pages)

• go to User:Benoit Rochon on every wiki (except on fr.*, metawiki, commons)
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Benoit Rochon',
request_title = u'User:Benoit Rochon',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['fr.*', 'metawiki', 'commons'],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Benoit Rochon (talk) 00:24, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Amqui (talk)

request queued:

Amqui (global account · recent activity · user pages)

• go to User:Amqui on every wiki (except on frwiki, metawiki, enwiki, frwikivoyage, frwikiversity, incubator, crwiki, iuwiki, chywiki, frwiktionary)
• and delete the page.

request_user = u'Amqui',
request_title = u'User:Amqui',
request_action = lambda bot: bot.delete(),
skip_existing = False,
skip_unregistered = False,
skip_wikis = ['frwiki', 'metawiki', 'enwiki', 'frwikivoyage', 'frwikiversity', 'incubator', 'crwiki', 'iuwiki', 'chywiki', 'frwiktionary'],
delete_summary = None,
edit_summary = None,

Amqui (talk) 17:29, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

FAQ

How do I make a request?

Follow these steps to queue a request. There's no approval process; your request will be handled in the next batch! (Requests are typically handled ≈once per month; notify Pathoschild if a request is urgent.)

1. Copy this template into a new section:

   ===~~~===
   {{#invoke:synchbot|request
    |user          = 
    |action        = replace
    |title         = 
    |text          = 
    |skip wikis    = 
    |skip existing = yes
    |status        = <!-- don't change this line -->
   }}~~~~
   

2. Fill in the template values:

   user

   Your user account name.

   action

   What you want the bot to do:

   • replace the existing text 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 the page.

   title

   The title of the page you want edited on every wiki (usually "User:username").

   text

   The text you want placed on the edited pages. 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. 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:w:fr:Article]] for a page on Meta).

   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).

   skip existing

   Whether to skip pages that already exist.

3. Watch this page in case I have questions. Otherwise it will be done soon! :)

Which wikis are edited?

The bot edits almost all Wikimedia wikis in every language. It only skips private wikis, fishbowl wikis, and loginwiki.

Can the bot delete pages?

The bot can delete any of your user pages or subpages (except your main talk page). When deleting your user page, you must have a global user page and the bot will skip wikis where you have a block history. On arwiki and on commons, the bot will place the appropriate speedy-deletion template instead.

See also

• Global user pages
• Related tools:
  • Krinkle's Global SUL creates your account on all wikis
  • MassMessage sends notifications to a list of users
• Related discussions:
  • 2014-08: global editinterface for Synchbot (renewed 2015-08)
  • 2014-09: global deleter for Synchbot (see global deleter; renewed 2015-08)
  • 2015-02: community consensus for bulk deletion of user pages
• Synchbot campaigns:
  • 2014–2016 global script migration