Babel AutoCreate is blocked indefinitely on nearly 20 wikis due to its malfunctioning https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Babel_AutoCreate. Please disable the bot until the bugs that causes the issues are resolved or we might end having to delete a couple of thousand more wrongly created pages in adittion to what we already have. Please see T112868
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- T333778: Create a configuration option to allow enabling/disabling bot category creation
T63993: Babel language codes should be normalised to lower case when used in categories - Mentioned Here
- T62824: Capital letters leads to invalid language
T63993: Babel language codes should be normalised to lower case when used in categories
T112868: Babel AutoCreate creates incorrectly named and duplicated categories on multiple WMF wikis
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Because of the thousands of pages in need of deletion already, to avoid having to delete a thousand more.
As far as I'm aware, it's still happening. Also, if the issues were resolved, wouldn't that bug be closed already?
I just had a quick look at https://tools.wmflabs.org/quentinv57-tools/tools/globalcontribs.php?username=Babel%20AutoCreate&limit=500 but I don't see incorrectly named categories.
That bug is probably not closed because a script to delete incorrectly named categories hasn't been written; the underlying issue has been fixed.
Change 282528 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarcoAurelio):
Stop Babel AutoCreate globally until bugs in its operative are fixed
Will test at Meta and report back to you, but we've been reported last week it's still happening.
Tested. The bug that makes creating categories for non-existant languages or bad language codes still exists, as well as T63993, T62824 and all of this. I've reblocked the bot at Meta.
Change 282528 abandoned by MarcoAurelio:
Stop Babel AutoCreate globally until bugs in its operative are fixed
Change 285585 had a related patch set uploaded (by Eileen):
CRM-18842 Dedupe query: remove OR join in favour of more performant UNION