NOTICE: MBS-13874 (https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-13874): Clean YouTube /live/<id> and /shorts/<id> to standard /watch?v=<id>
2025-12-16 35024, 2025
op3kay[m]
@reosarevok in regard to the areabot, is it in our best interest to add a huge amount of areas to our database just as the bot does? seems like that would add a lot of unnecessary areas that won’t be of any use
2025-12-16 35055, 2025
reosarevok[m]
Well, the original bot we ran many years ago just added all areas it could find
2025-12-16 35006, 2025
reosarevok[m]
That is overkill, we end up with a lot of tiny US villages
2025-12-16 35022, 2025
reosarevok[m]
IIRC the idea with this bot is that it would have some limit on how small a place should be for it to be added automatically
2025-12-16 35019, 2025
op3kay[m]
hm looking through the codebase it seemed like it was just pulling a lot of areas from wikidata.
2025-12-16 35024, 2025
op3kay[m]
would it be ideal to have a system where wed still use the AREQ tickets but its addition to the database would be done by a bot(using jira webhooks or so)
2025-12-16 35038, 2025
reosarevok[m]
I mean, if it adds all cities with 10k people or more, that would still be a lot of areas, for example
2025-12-16 35008, 2025
reosarevok[m]
But it's not a bad thing to have a lot of areas, as long as the system is automated - right now it's kind of embarrassing how bad our coverage is outside of Europe and the US/Canada
2025-12-16 35034, 2025
reosarevok[m]
The idea was to keep the AREQ system, but just for the kind of small areas to be added on a per-request basis
2025-12-16 35012, 2025
reosarevok[m]
Otherwise, if you still use AREQ and want the bot to do the work, you depend on people actually doing a good job of adding all the info the bot needs to the ticket. Which is not often how people work 😅
2025-12-16 35029, 2025
op3kay[m]
yea that does make sense. so are we proposing we use the bot to add areas based on population?
2025-12-16 35017, 2025
reosarevok[m]
What conditions does it currently follow?
2025-12-16 35031, 2025
reosarevok[m]
I think it should have some filtering built in even now, but I can't remember which
2025-12-16 35019, 2025
FaizanAkhtar[m]
monkey: Hi 🙂
2025-12-16 35019, 2025
FaizanAkhtar[m]
While working on LB-1761....... I noticed that the All / For You selection also doesnt persist on refresh and always defaults back to For You...just wanted to check whether this should be included in the scope of this issue as well, or if I should focus only on the filters mentioned in the ticket.....
