Operator: Fox Wilson ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 14:25, Sunday March 3, 2013 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: Upon request
Function overview: Notifies users whose articles have been tagged with {{ notability}}
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 February 26#Template:Notability
Edit period(s): every ten minutes
Estimated number of pages affected: ~100-500 talk pages per month
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): With a comment: Yes
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Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Uses the API to fetch the Notability category of the current month. For each article in the category, uses prop=revisions to get the page creator. It then notifies the page creator with a template like User:Fox Wilson/notability-notice.
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nobots}}
in every notification you send out? I really don't think that's a good idea. What if users want to be notified each time their article is tagged? Can the notification group articles together like DPL bot does?{{
nobots}}
on user talk pages, I'll probably (I'm welcome to suggestions) use <code><!-- NOVOXEL:thenameofthearticle --></code> whenever I notify someone. We could certainly move the bot over to another account, but there is a list of tasks and operators on the userpage which, in my opinion, is enough at the moment. It's a
Fox!
(What did I break) 11:31, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
reply Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.
MBisanz
talk 21:50, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
reply
Trial complete. Alright, quite frankly, there were plenty of articles in this month's category to work with, so the trial is done already. The bot went through roughly fifty talk pages and posted messages like
this, this is working perfectly and I can see no technical issues. It's a
Fox!
(What did I break) 23:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
reply
Operator: Fox Wilson ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 14:25, Sunday March 3, 2013 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: Upon request
Function overview: Notifies users whose articles have been tagged with {{ notability}}
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 February 26#Template:Notability
Edit period(s): every ten minutes
Estimated number of pages affected: ~100-500 talk pages per month
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): With a comment: Yes
<!-- NOVOXEL -->
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Uses the API to fetch the Notability category of the current month. For each article in the category, uses prop=revisions to get the page creator. It then notifies the page creator with a template like User:Fox Wilson/notability-notice.
{{
nobots}}
in every notification you send out? I really don't think that's a good idea. What if users want to be notified each time their article is tagged? Can the notification group articles together like DPL bot does?{{
nobots}}
on user talk pages, I'll probably (I'm welcome to suggestions) use <code><!-- NOVOXEL:thenameofthearticle --></code> whenever I notify someone. We could certainly move the bot over to another account, but there is a list of tasks and operators on the userpage which, in my opinion, is enough at the moment. It's a
Fox!
(What did I break) 11:31, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
reply Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.
MBisanz
talk 21:50, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
reply
Trial complete. Alright, quite frankly, there were plenty of articles in this month's category to work with, so the trial is done already. The bot went through roughly fifty talk pages and posted messages like
this, this is working perfectly and I can see no technical issues. It's a
Fox!
(What did I break) 23:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
reply