There is a category religion and philosophy, and a category philosophy and religion. Why is it so? Morgan Leigh | Talk 03:25, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Morgan Leigh: They're in different sections - the first one is for Requests for comment, the second is for Good article nominations. BTW, this edit removed another user besides yourself. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:45, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this answer and thank you so much for noticing that mistake and fixing it. Morgan Leigh | Talk 00:27, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a similar way to get 2-5 other editors pinged about a request for cleanup help about an article? Is it appropriate to formulate something that simple as an RfC, in order to use FRS? – SJ + 20:04, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Sj: You should hold a normal discussion on the talk page of the article, and if you need more eyes, you may drop a neutrally-worded note on the talk pages of relevant WikiProjects. Templates such as {{fyi}} and {{subst:please see}} may be used for this. RfC is a process of last resort, not something to be used lightly. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:06, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That was my gut feeling also. Thanks, {{please see}} is partly what I was looking for. But hoping there was a service like FRS for cases where it's not obvious where to place such a template that would reach interested people. E.g. say I run across an orphan with few sources and few views; it's been around for a long time but it's past editors are no longer active; I'm considering a bold change like a redirect [though it's not clear where to] and want a sanity check. Basically, something like {{help me}} but for established editors to put on articles to reach others who've opted into to seeing such pings. 😅 – SJ + 21:39, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yapperbot needs to be migrated off of GridEngine, which has been shut off. This will be easier now than later. See T320195 – SJ + 01:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sj, the bot has started working again. You might be interested in User talk:Naypta#Yapperbot is down, we're thinking about forking.

Also, if anyone's interested in quantifying the effect of the FRS, we have a nice little natural experiment. Just compare the total number of responses to RFCs that were listed on the pages on 1 December 2023 vs 1 January 2023 (or whichever dates you prefer). Counting the number of comments + unique editors to a ==Section== is easy with DiscussionTools (in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures if it's not already on for your account). WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:46, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No question that this is part of the lifeblood of the network; we should really be thinking about how to mroe easily integrate this tool, and a family of things like it, as a natural collaborative feature (of "MediaWiki for communities?") and not just a bespoke tool running on a few Wikipedias. – SJ + 00:17, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Integration probably means putting it in Echo/Notifications. This would probably increase the reach (setting it to opt-out after n edits would bring in a steady supply of commenters) but cost the "happened to see this on someone else's talk page" serendipity.

As for how to pick the editors who receive a given notification, imagine something like @Nettrom's SuggestBot to route RFCs to potentially interested editors, or maybe using the articletopic: feature on Search to produce larger groupings (there are 64 topics) that is consistent across wikis (pinging EBernhardson (WMF) to tell me whether that's vaguely feasible). A third option would be manual classification; that would probably require a new Special: page. Or MusikAnimal (WMF) and his team could end up with another bot that they have to maintain forever. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:29, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m surprised there isn’t one yet and I would love it. RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 14:49, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have tried all I can think of changed the number to 0 to be infinite and I added my name to all RFCs but for some reason the bot does not inform me of each RFC either in the categories I specifcally put my name in or from the all RFCs category(it notifies me of some but not all.) Not sure If I did something wrong or why it is not working fully for me GothicGolem29 (Talk) 22:21, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GothicGolem29: At User talk:GothicGolem29, I see three FRS messages. They're the ones where the heading begins "Feedback request", and signed by SodiumBot. Why do you think that it's not working? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:28, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64 thanks for the response. Yes I did get those notifications but the issue is I am not getting notified about every rfc in each area I selected only some of them like the ones you saw in the good article RFCs section. For example,I am set to infinite in the biographies section and infinite in the all RFCs section but I did not get any notification on this rfc which opened on the 9th of December https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trial_of_Michael_Jackson?oldid=1326789366#Request_for_Comment_on_%22False_Accusations_of_Sex_Crimes%22_Category_Inclusion. GothicGolem29 (Talk) 22:22, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that infinite doesn't really mean infinite. That is, SodiumBot has a number of inbuilt restrictions on how many messages it can send to one individual within a certain timeframe. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:23, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ohhh thanks ok guess I will try priorities which categories I am in more and hope the new number is below the limit. GothicGolem29 (Talk) 00:33, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FYI. I mention this page + the bot here:

• Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment#RfC_bot_concerns_that_might_be_addressed (permalink)

--David Tornheim (talk) 16:22, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]