The automation department of the Novels WikiProject uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.
The current scope of the Novels WikiProject is enormous and covers thousands of articles. These articles must be tagged, their infoboxes replaced or deprecated, and so forth. Given the sheer number of articles, it is quite tedious to do these things by hand; therefore, various automated or semi-automated processes must be set up to perform these maintenance tasks.
Depending on the nature of the task, it can be either completely automated and run by a bot, or semi-automated via AWB, requiring a user's decision to whether or not implement the changes. Indeed, in order to minimize false positives, some of the operations should be performed by hand.
Rules of thumb:
A task is a maintenance operation that can be executed on a precise set of articles. It can be identified by several parameters:
Note: "non-recurrent" tasks should actually be reperformed once every few months, to take into account new articles created on the subject. However, moving a finished non-recurrent task back to unassigned will be done at discretion of the project coordinators.
When a task involves tagging articles from a stub tag and automatically rating them as "Stub-Class", the auto parameter in {{ NovelsWikiProject}} must be set:
{{NovelsWikiProject
|class=Stub
|auto=yes
...
}}
This populates the category automatically_assessed_novel_articles with articles so tagged, which then can be reviewed by editors. You should either confirm the "stub" as such or change the rating to a different class. Also you should make sure the "priority / importance" and other parameters are set correctly if you can.
Task | Brief explanation | Can be automated? | # of articles involved | Assigned to / last time done: |
Novels WikiProject Newsletter delivery | Every month, the Novels WikiProject newsletter must be delivered to all people taking part in the project (unless they choose not to receive it). Plus a few others who have requested copies. | Yes | ~200 | Grafikbot (N/A, monthly) |
Clean out Category:Uncategorised books | This not always in existence category sometimes has novel articles assigned to it that need categories attached. | ? | Variable | Can be done by any editor.
Last done by ? on ?. |
Task | Brief explanation | Can be automated? | # of articles involved | # remaining | Assigned to / last time done: |
Category:Novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. | Yes | 200+ | Pending | KevinalewisBot ( talk · contribs) |
Category:Story stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. | Yes | 500+ | Pending | KevinalewisBot ( talk · contribs) |
Category:Book stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. | No | 100+ | Pending |
Task | Brief explanation | Can be automated? | # of articles involved | # remaining | Assigned to / last time done: |
Category:American novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | ||
Category:American story stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? |
Task | Brief explanation | Can be automated? | # of articles involved | # remaining | Assigned to / last time done: |
Category:18th century novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Outstanding | |
Category:19th century novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1900s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Outstanding | |
Category:1910s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Outstanding | |
Category:1920s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1930s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1940s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1950s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1960s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1970s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1980s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1990s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:2000s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Please add a brief description of the proposed task below; once it has been determined that it can be safely carried out, and that there are no objections to doing so, it will be moved into the tables above.
All project members are invited to comment on these requests—particularly if they notice any problems with the proposal!
use these to create worklists above
[+] Novel stubs [+] Novels by genre stubs [+] Story stubs etc.
The automation department of the Novels WikiProject uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.
The current scope of the Novels WikiProject is enormous and covers thousands of articles. These articles must be tagged, their infoboxes replaced or deprecated, and so forth. Given the sheer number of articles, it is quite tedious to do these things by hand; therefore, various automated or semi-automated processes must be set up to perform these maintenance tasks.
Depending on the nature of the task, it can be either completely automated and run by a bot, or semi-automated via AWB, requiring a user's decision to whether or not implement the changes. Indeed, in order to minimize false positives, some of the operations should be performed by hand.
Rules of thumb:
A task is a maintenance operation that can be executed on a precise set of articles. It can be identified by several parameters:
Note: "non-recurrent" tasks should actually be reperformed once every few months, to take into account new articles created on the subject. However, moving a finished non-recurrent task back to unassigned will be done at discretion of the project coordinators.
When a task involves tagging articles from a stub tag and automatically rating them as "Stub-Class", the auto parameter in {{ NovelsWikiProject}} must be set:
{{NovelsWikiProject
|class=Stub
|auto=yes
...
}}
This populates the category automatically_assessed_novel_articles with articles so tagged, which then can be reviewed by editors. You should either confirm the "stub" as such or change the rating to a different class. Also you should make sure the "priority / importance" and other parameters are set correctly if you can.
Task | Brief explanation | Can be automated? | # of articles involved | Assigned to / last time done: |
Novels WikiProject Newsletter delivery | Every month, the Novels WikiProject newsletter must be delivered to all people taking part in the project (unless they choose not to receive it). Plus a few others who have requested copies. | Yes | ~200 | Grafikbot (N/A, monthly) |
Clean out Category:Uncategorised books | This not always in existence category sometimes has novel articles assigned to it that need categories attached. | ? | Variable | Can be done by any editor.
Last done by ? on ?. |
Task | Brief explanation | Can be automated? | # of articles involved | # remaining | Assigned to / last time done: |
Category:Novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. | Yes | 200+ | Pending | KevinalewisBot ( talk · contribs) |
Category:Story stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. | Yes | 500+ | Pending | KevinalewisBot ( talk · contribs) |
Category:Book stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. | No | 100+ | Pending |
Task | Brief explanation | Can be automated? | # of articles involved | # remaining | Assigned to / last time done: |
Category:American novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | ||
Category:American story stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? |
Task | Brief explanation | Can be automated? | # of articles involved | # remaining | Assigned to / last time done: |
Category:18th century novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Outstanding | |
Category:19th century novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1900s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Outstanding | |
Category:1910s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Outstanding | |
Category:1920s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1930s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1940s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1950s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1960s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1970s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1980s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:1990s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Category:2000s novel stubs | All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub | Yes | ? | Done | KevinalewisBot 23 March 2007 |
Please add a brief description of the proposed task below; once it has been determined that it can be safely carried out, and that there are no objections to doing so, it will be moved into the tables above.
All project members are invited to comment on these requests—particularly if they notice any problems with the proposal!
use these to create worklists above
[+] Novel stubs [+] Novels by genre stubs [+] Story stubs etc.