Wikipedia talk:reFill

TAPINTO: A local New Jersey USA news source I frequently use doesn't seem to get "converted" any more by Refill toolforge?

hi - A news publication in NJ USA called TapInto has a number of city-based news pages by different journalists. When I put a bare URL recently using the Refill Tool forge tool, it no longer seems to fill it? Wondering why and if there is a fix? I also opened a discussion awhile back on TapInto' talk page. Thanks in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhdshoes2 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bhdshoes2: I've only just noticed your message here - sorry! I have now cleaned the article. The references were formatted as external links which is why reFill didn't process them. The only external links it updates are ones which have no title e.g. [1]. I turned the external links into inline references and then reFill ran fine on it. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 13:48, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Oh thanks so much! Bhdshoes2 (talk) 15:23, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

RTE.ie is not a journal

Refill converts raw www.rte.ie urls to Template:cite journal, thus causing a cs1 error flag (" {{cite journal}}: Empty citation (help): Cite journal requires |journal=(help)"). Template:cite web would be more appropriate, in general, with Template:cite news for www.rte.ie/news, similar issue for www.bis.org. -Bogger (talk) 12:24, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Broken again, I think

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T380426

This appears to be breaking again. I had the "pending" message for an hour this afternoon (from around 3.30pm GMT) and again this evening (from around 9.30pm GMT). As of now, it continues not to process reference. If this afternoon's experience is anything to go by then hopefully it should start working again in the next few minutes, but whatever the case, could someone please take a look and work out what's going on? Thanks in advance, This is Paul (talk) 22:32, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@This is Paul: I know it is frustrating when this happens. Unfortunately, I don't have the Kubernetes skills to troubleshoot it, especially as that needs to take place promptly when it is not working and that doesn't always fit in with my work commitments or home life, as a volunteer. In the past, we have had friendly Wikimedia Foundation people who were interested in the project and responsive to requests for investigation, but that seems to have waned. When reFill does recover from these outages it isn't by anyone having intervened manually - it just seems to fix itself, which means we are none the wiser as to what was wrong or what could be done manually to fix it more promptly instead of just waiting for it to recover 'by itself'. I know that's not what you want to hear, but that's where we are - suggestions, or offers of technical help, most welcome from anyone reading this. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 10:38, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

As an aside, the bot is currently working for me today. Thanks. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:54, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Think it is still playing-up as cannot get a worker. Keith D (talk) 17:18, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Working again now after I restarted the api webservice. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:44, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

@Curb Safe Charmer: Thanks for explaining the situation. This is Paul (talk) 23:26, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

I am having the same issue as of now, unfortunately. Stuck at pending, "Waiting for an available worker." Thanks. Tolozen (talk) 10:14, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

@Tolozen: just tested and working fine for me? May have been a transient problem. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 11:17, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

ToolForge has been unstable during the last 24 hours due to phab:T380844. May resolve itself. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:59, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Reference deduplication

Take a look at this edit—I tried using reFill on this page, but the deduplication feature seems to have glitched out. Any idea what went wrong? – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 23:40, 27 November 2024 (UTC)