User:HotArticlesBot
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[edit]This bot updates hot article lists for various WikiProjects. The source code is publicly available.
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[edit]This bot is written in PHP and uses the botclasses framework.
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[edit]If you would like HotArticlesBot to generate hot article lists for your WikiProject, please subscribe the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject/Hot articles config.json.
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