Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WPPageListBot
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Operator: Bamyers99 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 22:46, Thursday September 19, 2013 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): PHP
Source code available: Github
Function overview: Update WikiProject lists of pages associated with a WP to facilitate recent changes reviewing.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:Tedder#a_beautiful_weekend_for_bots
Edit period(s): Weekly
Estimated number of pages affected: 1 or 2 per WikiProject. Page names are predefined by each WP.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No):
Function details: This is a generalized replacement for User:TedderBot task TedderBot 3 which hasn't been run since April 2013. The bot will update WikiProject lists of pages associated with a project. A page is associated with a WP by including a category on the talk page, usually via a WP Banner template. The list page is then used to display recent article changes.
Trial run examples: User:Bamyers99/sandbox/WP_Oregon_Admin, User:Bamyers99/sandbox/WP_Michigan_recent_changes
Program flow:
- Retrieve page names associated with a category via MediaWiki API
- Generate one or two pages (article/non-article) with links to all of the pages in the category
- Save the pages
Discussion
[edit]Approved for trial (10 projects for 1 week). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 19:36, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn by operator. Sorry to waste your time. I just found a toolserver page (Transcluded changes) that displays recent changes for articles in a WikiProject. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:58, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Closing. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 15:19, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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