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A URL to the article to watch. The wiki name will be extracted from the URL. (Note that this syntax can, but should not be used for watching users, because the user namespace will not be stripped. Thus, attempting to watch the user "http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Crazycomputers" will end up watching
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Networks must be specified in CIDR notation. Equivalent networks are treated as a single entry, so attempting to watch the network 127.0.255.255/16 while watching 127.0.0.0/16 will result in an error, since these describe the same network. Likewise, attempting to remove 127.0.255.255/16 while
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Namespaces are not understood, so attempting to watch "user:crazycomputers" will result in watching "User:crazycomputers". Obviously, this will never actually yield any results. Always specify the exact item name. (This is due to the fact that namespaces vary from project to project and from
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I provide absolutely no guarantee as to the correctness or timeliness of the information delivered by
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How long each notifier has been up. ("Up" in this context usually means "connected to the server." So if the XMPP notifier is down, that means that the bot isn't connected to its XMPP server. Which you would never see unless you were running this command from a different chat network, of
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There is no need to report any downtime to me unless it exceeds a minute or two, since I will frequently restart the bot to apply updates. Usually this only takes a few seconds. If longer downtime is required, I will change the status message at the top of this page.
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Requests an authentication link to the web-based watchlist management interface. Links will expire after five minutes, and requesting a link will invalidate any previous link. (Note that your session does not expire after five minutes, only the authentication link.)
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single quotation marks, preventing the command parser from treating them specially. Most browsers also encode double-quotation marks, but this is not technically required, so the safest way to watch pages by URL is to wrap the URL in single quote marks. For example:
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205:). As indicated above, you can specify the wiki on which to watch edits by this network using the "{language.project}" prefix. As a safeguard, the bot will not permit networks with a network identifier less than 16 bits in length to be watched.
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Current Google Talk users are encouraged to migrate their
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If the bot is not online, reporting the problem to any of my talk pages is unlikely to generate a swift response from me since I won't receive any messages alerting me about your report. The best way to reach me would be via
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As the bot developer and operator, I necessarily have full access to everyone's watchlist. I will keep this information confidential to the best of my ability. If you are worried about privacy, take note of two things:
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The web interface allows mass deletion of watchlist items, mass alteration of item comments, single addition of items, and mass addition of items. Item specifiers are parsed according to the same
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The pound sign (#) and all trailing characters will be stripped. This is intended to make it easy to copy and paste URLs, without worrying if a section link was followed.
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Invalid characters in article names are not stripped, and will generate no errors. You are free to add the article "<>{}:" to your watchlist if you would like.
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