Forum:Wikia welcoming bot malfunction?

On the Fable wiki, MediaWiki normally welcomes users and IPs with a message on their talk page and adding a template to the user page. However, this has stopped about yesterday for some reason. They never appear in recent changes though. is there a problem with MediaWiki or something? ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 06:15, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

I am reporting the same problem, it simply doesn't do anything.  Light Daxter - User - Talk 09:42, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * That explains a lot... -- 12:24, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

OK then. Around yesterday, The welcoming system stopped working. It all seems fine and is still active according to the mediaWiki pages. it is on the welcoming new user thing and is on @Sysop. However, talk pages and user pages are not having them templates added when they make an edit. They are new users that have never edited before. Hope this helps. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 17:48, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

For the record, I sent a message to the help inbox to inform Wikia of this forum and problem when I made the above edit this morning... -- 18:06, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

I just welcomed a user myself, and it didn't appear in the RC. -- LordTBT Talk! 20:28, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

Same problem on the Bleach Wiki. The Wikia bot hasn't made any edits since 19.04 on 1st of March. I've been adding the welcome messages myself today. -- Yyp (Talk) 13:56, March 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not seeing any stalled/failed welcome jobs in the queue, but I am seeing thousands of successes on other wikis. Can you show me an example of where a user/anon edited and did not get auto welcomed? --Uberfuzzy 16:22, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

Yep, sure:
 * Here for Simpsons Wiki, Here for Fable Wiki. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 17:26, March 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi guys -- thanks for noticing this and posting about it. This is a Wikia-wide bug -- the engineers are figuring out what's up and will fix it. Thanks for the reports, and sorry for the inconvenience while we figure it out! -- Danny (talk ) 18:34, March 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Glad it is being sorted. I am fed up of pasting the message to new users. Glad the wikis are not even more popular than they are. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 19:23, March 3, 2010 (UTC)

The bot is working again. Many thanks for fixing it guys. -- Yyp (Talk) 16:48, March 4, 2010 (UTC)