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Filled by: Headbomb
Time filed: 05:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Description: Cover WP:FSC.
Comments:
Will do together (at same priority) with WP:FP and WP:PPR. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Filled by: Od Mishehu ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 07:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Description: Alert for {{ sfd-c}} and {{ sfd-t}}, which refer to the Stub types for deletion process. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Comments:
Will add this when implementing more workflows in the futurish time. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:44, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Filled by: Leyo ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 00:46, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Description: MerlBot does a lot of good work over in de.wikipedia. You might want to take a look at the examples chemistry or Canada. The content is configurable. Maybe these lists provide you some new ideas to you. And if not, that is OK, too. -- Leyo 00:46, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Comments:
Thanks for info, I'll check out if there are any cool ideas. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 11:36, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Well, one idea I got is to call workflows "worklists", which seems to make more sense and is a bit more intuitive. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:38, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to know how can one apply this bot to Russian wiki? Is there a template to translate? I could do this. Rubikonchik ( talk) 00:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I had this crazy idea recently and thought I would present it for consideration. If a user copied their watchlist to a user subpage (or maybe multiple subpages) with a certain naming convention (like User:Kumioko/ArticleAlerts) would it be possible for Article Alert bot to notify an individual of pending things in the same way it does for projects? Since many of us have different articles on our watchlists, belong to multiple projects, work on articles that don't fall into a project at all, etc. I realize that there would be some programming effort involved and not knowing how the bot is programmed I don't know if its even possible but it seems like this would be a great benefit to a lot of us with a relatively low level of effort. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Hellknowz, recently I requested a new bot to monitor for new pages added to a WikiProject and you said you might be able to help out if you had some time. If you do get a spare moment, it would be great if you could have a look into creating something like this? Cheers, Jack ( talk) 17:15, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Filled by: Czarkoff ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 00:33, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Description: The reports should include the content and changes in categories, populated with {{ expert-subject}} and {{ expert-subject-multiple}}.
Comments:
Sorry for late reply, I completely missed the message. The Category:All articles needing expert attention category includes 5400+ pages, which is more that the total number of pages across all the other workflows. Since pages here don't have strict closure times, this category is more suitable for cleanup listings, that doesn't do extensive parsing for reports and runs less frequently. I might come up with something myself, but I doubt I will implement this for the main report since I'm short on time and this is a resource intensive task. I'll keep it in mind though. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:56, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Filled by: Ahnoneemoos ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 03:26, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Description: ability to post a single change into a talk page.
Comments: the bot would post in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico every single change as a new section. For example, the bot would post the following wiki code on the project talk page:
==Article nominated for deletion: name_of_article== The article [[name_of_article]] has been nominated for deletion. This is a post by a bot. ~~~~
We could also specify which changes we would like to be posted; something like:
| afd = yes | rfc = no
I tried to create Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Article alerts from copying the Poland alerts and altering it. Did this once before years ago and it worked, but think I've forgotten/missed something this time. Can someone take a look please. Thanks. In ictu oculi ( talk) 02:45, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Filled by: Alan Liefting ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 05:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Description: For the Popular pages listing add a talk page link next to the article name. The link need only be piped as "(talk)". This will allow reader to go directly to the talk page to update WikiProject parameters.
Comments: Sorry, I'm not even sure which "popular pages" this refers to, but I have a feeling this isn't related to Article Alerts. As far as I know, all AA reports have talk page links. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:29, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Withdraw. Wrong forum. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 08:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
I may be mistaken, but it appears that the bot does not send alerts for categories tagged with {{
Db-c1}} (deletion) or {{
Cfr-speedy}} (renaming). I assumed that these were listed under the Article Alerts section: Categories for discussion, but I think I was mistaken. If they are not listed I would like to request that the bot add these category flags to the alerts. Since some at CFD already believe as I did that Article Alerts already does this
1,
2
3, I think it would be a good idea.
71.93.195.143 (
talk)
21:43, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
For larger projects (in this case Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine) the generated list is often large and cluttered with inactive items. It seems like all items are currently kept for a whole six months. Could a (optional?) time limit be set, so we could specify all items inactive for more than e.g. one month to be removed? That would give a much clearer overview of current events. -- WS ( talk) 12:01, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Ah Thanks! That will help a lot. Just curious, what is the default? -- WS ( talk) 14:21, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
When things get WP:PRODded and dePRODded, only a small fraction of the time the talk page gets properly tagged with a T:AH. Could you develop a second bot or add a feature to the current bot to assist with T:AH updates, especially for dePRODs.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:36, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
{{
proposed deletion/dated}}
Several other actions are listed, but the text "you are encouraged, but not required, to ..." is very much not binding. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
11:23, 29 November 2013 (UTC)Filled by: Schwede66 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 17:43, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Description: I was wondering why Wikipedia:Page Curation isn't showing up in article alerts. Ok, I appreciate that new articles are generally lacking project tags, but some new pages do get tagged without the reviewer noticing the page curation link on the article page. I'm sure that editors who keep an eye on a Wikiproject would be interested in new pages. Schwede 66 17:43, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Comments:
@ Schwede66: Sorry, when I first saw the request, I didn't quite understand it, and then I totally forgot about it.
Can you explain, please, what exactly related to page curation are you saying should show up in article alerts? I know new pages often get tagged and deleted before projects even see them, but there aren't any good ways to reliably determine that projects want to see them. That's pretty much new article bot (don't remember it's latest incarnation's name). I already detect infoboxes for some projects and even parse manual delsorts, but most new pages still need manual banner tagging before can pick them up among all the other pages. What do you suggest? — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 22:25, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Filled by: Stevietheman ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 15:13, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Description: It would be nice to have a feed with entries based on items added to the alerts page (e.g., an entry for an AfD and another one for a featured article nomination, all as they are added). I would guess that the most economical approach would be to show the entry as plain text and provide one link to where the related discussion is.
Comments: A feed like this would help for sending out alerts in other formats, such as tweets or Facebook posts.
Filled by: David Gerard ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 09:30, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Description: monitor {{ prod blp}} as well as {{ prod}}.
Comments:
AAlertBot monitors new {{ prod}}s - but I notice it doesn't monitor {{ prod blp}}. I suggest this would be useful, as dubious BLPs are a matter of great importance.
Filled by: Ritchie333 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 08:50, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Description: Provide a mechanism to list all draft pages whose talk page is tagged as belonging to a specific project.
The motivation for this feature is a report here written by Jodi.a.schneider ( talk · contribs) that discusses the failings of Articles for creation. Adding alerts for new drafts in projects would help bring awareness of expert subject knowledge to potential new articles and satisfy the report's proposed design implications of Determine which drafts need collaboration and Recommend drafts to potential collaborators, based on both user interest and the likelihood of creating an encyclopedia article from a given draft.
Related discussions :
Comments:
Filled by: Redrose64 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 11:12, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Description: Pages or files that get listed at
WP:NFCR don't get a mention on Article Alerts. For example,
File:Sensorites.jpg is listed at
WP:NFCR#File:Sensorites.jpg, and
File talk:Sensorites.jpg bears {{
WikiProject Doctor Who}}
, but the page is not listed on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts. Similarly,
An Unearthly Child is shown at
WP:NFCR#An Unearthly Child but is not listed at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts; however,
File:Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child.jpg, which is one of the three images under discussion at
WP:NFCR#An Unearthly Child, is listed on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts - but that's only because it's going through
WP:FFD as well as WP:NFCR.
Comments:
Yeah, NFCR doesn't get reported to AA. I guess I could add it alongside FFD. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 12:24, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Filled by: Resident Mario ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 21:33, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Description: Would it be possible to implement some sort of mail client on specific article alerts? I don't always have time for Wikipedia, but I do want to keep track of what's going on with my project, and I check my e-mail very often. Thanks, Res Mar 21:33, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Comments: @ Resident Mario: This isn't possible, but RSS/Atom notifications are available for all pages on Wikipedia. Would that work? Sorry for the late reply, btw. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 16:18, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Filled by: Amatulic ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 15:53, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Description: Monitor categories that request attention from an expert, update alert notice when there is a change.
Comments:
A new
Category:Wine articles needing expert attention has recently been created. It would be nice if the page
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Article alerts currently being maintained by AAlertBot would be updated when articles appear in this category, which should happen when {{
Expert-subject}}
is added to a page with the parameter "wine".
Filled by: Gonzo fan2007 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 16:12, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Description: It would be great if the Bot could provide a WP:DYK update whenever a Project article has appeared in the DYK section of the main page. I believe that each talk page is edited with {{ DYK talk}} or {{ ArticleHistory}} indicating it has been on the main page. If the bot could search for this and provide an alert, WikiProjects would be better able to capture this recognition and display it on their project page (something most WikiProjects try to do). Thanks! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:12, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Comments:
I'm following the page, I just have lots of real-world stuff I need to do and the feature requests is on a long backlog. DYK was requested before, but it's syntax did not follow other workflows. Just getting TFAs working was a major pain. I honestly don't know if I will get to this any time soon unless I win the lottery. Hopefully, WMF
can get on it soon. —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK
14:33, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Filled by: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 14:34, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Description: It would be neat if we also have keyword-based subscriptions, e.g. for WP:JOURNALS,
|keywords = abhandlungen; bulletin; comptes rendus; journal; letters; notices; proceedings; publications of; review; transactions; zeitschrift
Where the bot would check for those keywords in the title of the page [t]/ main text [m] / categories on the page [c] / relevant discussions [d].
|keywords = journal[dmt]
would look for 'journal' in discussions, main text, titles. Because searching in the main text would lead to a lot of crap results, I suggest making [cdt] the default setting when unspecified, so
|keywords = journal
is the same as
|keywords = journal[cdt]
Default settings could be overidden
|keywords = journal[ct]
which would look for 'journal' only in categories and titles. And you could combine options to have something like
|keyword = journal; impact factor[mctd]; WP:AJ[d]; WP:JOURNALS[d]; WP:JCW[d]
Comments:
Filled by: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 12:36, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Description: Change it so |delsort=WikiProject Deletion sorting/Foobar
is just |delsort=Foobar
Comments:
@ Hellknowz: Well that's not quite a duplicate. E.g.
Currently, you'd need |delsort=Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Comics and animation
. But this would be simpler to have |delsort=Comics and animation
.
Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b}
13:59, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Filled by: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 23:09, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Description: Subscribe via stubs
Comments: Would be useful for when something like {{ physics-stub}} is added, but nothing else. However, see below. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 23:09, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Filed by: Krelnik ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 23:42, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Description: Recently a DYK ran on the main page which used a 'hook' that a number of editors found offensive. Editors in the WikiProjects relevant to the article were appalled when they saw it, and would have intervened during the nomination if they had known about it. But as you know, the DYK process is a bit arcane and out of the normal travels of most editors. It is also not at all solvable using normal tools like watchlists, because the DYK work doesn't take place on the page itself or its talk page.
Including the DYK process in Article Alerts was proposed over 8 years ago. Can this be prioritized for future work, so we can prevent this happening again? Thank you. -- Krelnik ( talk) 03:42, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Next version will report DYK nominations (pending ( Template talk:Did you know) and approved ( Template talk:Did you know/Approved) but not queued ( Template:Did you know/Queue)) similar to how it reports TFARs. It will look like this. I have not yet implemented closure and queued DYKs, because I need some time to pass with active DYKs running so I can test it properly. (There are a few known issues, but there's also so much non-standard stuff going on with DYK; I will need to fix and adjust one thing at a time.) — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 15:47, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
Extending prods to pages in the portal namespace has just been proposed (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 6: Proposed Deletion for portals). Would showing prodded portals in article alerts need any adjustment to the bot, and if so would that be a difficult and/or time consuming task for you? Thryduulf ( talk) 22:28, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Looks like a whole lot of portals are going through MfD, so that seems to be the current conclusion on how to handle them. There are so many entries at the moment that the Portals article alerts page fails to upload due to page size limits. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 12:48, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Filled by: Philepitta ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 23:57, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Description: I was wondering if there is a way to list articles newly tagged with a template for a specific project? If not, would you consider adding this as a feature for this bot (perhaps as an extra tab on the existing alerts page for each Wikiproject)? I was hunting around and didn't see a way to do this. I think that it would be useful for interested editors to be able to see a list of new articles in the scope of a project, as it may bring to their attention articles that they are interested in helping to improve. This may be especially useful for smaller wikiprojects, which are likely to have only a small number of new articles at any given time. Such a feature might also help connect editors interested in related topics, and allow wikiprojects to reach out to new editors who have begun to edit in a particular area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philepitta ( talk • contribs) 23:57, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Comments:
As much as I'd love to extend the bot to provide different lists, like new articles, I'm afraid this is out of scope for the bot at the moment. I recognize the usefulness, but I am already very short on time to actively work on it and there are a lot of other features to implemented and bugs to squash. However, see User:InceptionBot that makes reports like this. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:25, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Filled by: Trialpears ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 21:16, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Description: Add alerts for merger and split discussions
Comments: This has been suggested several times before most notably in 2009. The previous discussions brought up a few concerns which I will address here:
I also want to mention that it's more important for merger discussions to be finished in a timely manner than most other discussion since the proposer often times will perform the actual merger if they're still active and working on the article while the burden for merging proposals thate were stale for several months often fall on WikiProject Merge which barely can cope with the backlog as is. Adding mergers to article alerts would likley lead to significant decreases in the merge and split backlogs which would be of large interest to the project as a whole. Trialpears ( talk) 21:16, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Filled by: Headbomb
Time filed: 04:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Description: Could the bot be extended include custom categories? For example say WP Chemistry is interested in monitoring a hypothetical what is covered by the "Chemist biography taskforce" (from the Biography banner) and "History of Chemistry taskforce" (from the History of Science banner). It would then add something like |extracats=Chemist biography articles, History of Chemistry taskforce articles" to the subscription template.
Comments:
De-archived. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 14:25, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
|security=yes
on {{
WikiProject Computing}}|network
, |software
, |science
, etc. from {{
WikiProject Computing}} --
Pnm (
talk)
20:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Filled by: Headbomb
Time filed: 05:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Description: Cover WP:FSC.
Comments:
Will do together (at same priority) with WP:FP and WP:PPR. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:42, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Filled by: Od Mishehu ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 07:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Description: Alert for {{ sfd-c}} and {{ sfd-t}}, which refer to the Stub types for deletion process. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Comments:
Will add this when implementing more workflows in the futurish time. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:44, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Filled by: Leyo ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 00:46, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Description: MerlBot does a lot of good work over in de.wikipedia. You might want to take a look at the examples chemistry or Canada. The content is configurable. Maybe these lists provide you some new ideas to you. And if not, that is OK, too. -- Leyo 00:46, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Comments:
Thanks for info, I'll check out if there are any cool ideas. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 11:36, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Well, one idea I got is to call workflows "worklists", which seems to make more sense and is a bit more intuitive. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 10:38, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to know how can one apply this bot to Russian wiki? Is there a template to translate? I could do this. Rubikonchik ( talk) 00:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
I had this crazy idea recently and thought I would present it for consideration. If a user copied their watchlist to a user subpage (or maybe multiple subpages) with a certain naming convention (like User:Kumioko/ArticleAlerts) would it be possible for Article Alert bot to notify an individual of pending things in the same way it does for projects? Since many of us have different articles on our watchlists, belong to multiple projects, work on articles that don't fall into a project at all, etc. I realize that there would be some programming effort involved and not knowing how the bot is programmed I don't know if its even possible but it seems like this would be a great benefit to a lot of us with a relatively low level of effort. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Hellknowz, recently I requested a new bot to monitor for new pages added to a WikiProject and you said you might be able to help out if you had some time. If you do get a spare moment, it would be great if you could have a look into creating something like this? Cheers, Jack ( talk) 17:15, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Filled by: Czarkoff ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 00:33, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Description: The reports should include the content and changes in categories, populated with {{ expert-subject}} and {{ expert-subject-multiple}}.
Comments:
Sorry for late reply, I completely missed the message. The Category:All articles needing expert attention category includes 5400+ pages, which is more that the total number of pages across all the other workflows. Since pages here don't have strict closure times, this category is more suitable for cleanup listings, that doesn't do extensive parsing for reports and runs less frequently. I might come up with something myself, but I doubt I will implement this for the main report since I'm short on time and this is a resource intensive task. I'll keep it in mind though. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:56, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Filled by: Ahnoneemoos ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 03:26, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Description: ability to post a single change into a talk page.
Comments: the bot would post in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico every single change as a new section. For example, the bot would post the following wiki code on the project talk page:
==Article nominated for deletion: name_of_article== The article [[name_of_article]] has been nominated for deletion. This is a post by a bot. ~~~~
We could also specify which changes we would like to be posted; something like:
| afd = yes | rfc = no
I tried to create Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece/Article alerts from copying the Poland alerts and altering it. Did this once before years ago and it worked, but think I've forgotten/missed something this time. Can someone take a look please. Thanks. In ictu oculi ( talk) 02:45, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Filled by: Alan Liefting ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 05:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Description: For the Popular pages listing add a talk page link next to the article name. The link need only be piped as "(talk)". This will allow reader to go directly to the talk page to update WikiProject parameters.
Comments: Sorry, I'm not even sure which "popular pages" this refers to, but I have a feeling this isn't related to Article Alerts. As far as I know, all AA reports have talk page links. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:29, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Withdraw. Wrong forum. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 08:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
I may be mistaken, but it appears that the bot does not send alerts for categories tagged with {{
Db-c1}} (deletion) or {{
Cfr-speedy}} (renaming). I assumed that these were listed under the Article Alerts section: Categories for discussion, but I think I was mistaken. If they are not listed I would like to request that the bot add these category flags to the alerts. Since some at CFD already believe as I did that Article Alerts already does this
1,
2
3, I think it would be a good idea.
71.93.195.143 (
talk)
21:43, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
For larger projects (in this case Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine) the generated list is often large and cluttered with inactive items. It seems like all items are currently kept for a whole six months. Could a (optional?) time limit be set, so we could specify all items inactive for more than e.g. one month to be removed? That would give a much clearer overview of current events. -- WS ( talk) 12:01, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Ah Thanks! That will help a lot. Just curious, what is the default? -- WS ( talk) 14:21, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
When things get WP:PRODded and dePRODded, only a small fraction of the time the talk page gets properly tagged with a T:AH. Could you develop a second bot or add a feature to the current bot to assist with T:AH updates, especially for dePRODs.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:36, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
{{
proposed deletion/dated}}
Several other actions are listed, but the text "you are encouraged, but not required, to ..." is very much not binding. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
11:23, 29 November 2013 (UTC)Filled by: Schwede66 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 17:43, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Description: I was wondering why Wikipedia:Page Curation isn't showing up in article alerts. Ok, I appreciate that new articles are generally lacking project tags, but some new pages do get tagged without the reviewer noticing the page curation link on the article page. I'm sure that editors who keep an eye on a Wikiproject would be interested in new pages. Schwede 66 17:43, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Comments:
@ Schwede66: Sorry, when I first saw the request, I didn't quite understand it, and then I totally forgot about it.
Can you explain, please, what exactly related to page curation are you saying should show up in article alerts? I know new pages often get tagged and deleted before projects even see them, but there aren't any good ways to reliably determine that projects want to see them. That's pretty much new article bot (don't remember it's latest incarnation's name). I already detect infoboxes for some projects and even parse manual delsorts, but most new pages still need manual banner tagging before can pick them up among all the other pages. What do you suggest? — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 22:25, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Filled by: Stevietheman ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 15:13, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Description: It would be nice to have a feed with entries based on items added to the alerts page (e.g., an entry for an AfD and another one for a featured article nomination, all as they are added). I would guess that the most economical approach would be to show the entry as plain text and provide one link to where the related discussion is.
Comments: A feed like this would help for sending out alerts in other formats, such as tweets or Facebook posts.
Filled by: David Gerard ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 09:30, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Description: monitor {{ prod blp}} as well as {{ prod}}.
Comments:
AAlertBot monitors new {{ prod}}s - but I notice it doesn't monitor {{ prod blp}}. I suggest this would be useful, as dubious BLPs are a matter of great importance.
Filled by: Ritchie333 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 08:50, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Description: Provide a mechanism to list all draft pages whose talk page is tagged as belonging to a specific project.
The motivation for this feature is a report here written by Jodi.a.schneider ( talk · contribs) that discusses the failings of Articles for creation. Adding alerts for new drafts in projects would help bring awareness of expert subject knowledge to potential new articles and satisfy the report's proposed design implications of Determine which drafts need collaboration and Recommend drafts to potential collaborators, based on both user interest and the likelihood of creating an encyclopedia article from a given draft.
Related discussions :
Comments:
Filled by: Redrose64 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 11:12, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Description: Pages or files that get listed at
WP:NFCR don't get a mention on Article Alerts. For example,
File:Sensorites.jpg is listed at
WP:NFCR#File:Sensorites.jpg, and
File talk:Sensorites.jpg bears {{
WikiProject Doctor Who}}
, but the page is not listed on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts. Similarly,
An Unearthly Child is shown at
WP:NFCR#An Unearthly Child but is not listed at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts; however,
File:Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child.jpg, which is one of the three images under discussion at
WP:NFCR#An Unearthly Child, is listed on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Article alerts - but that's only because it's going through
WP:FFD as well as WP:NFCR.
Comments:
Yeah, NFCR doesn't get reported to AA. I guess I could add it alongside FFD. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 12:24, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
Filled by: Resident Mario ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 21:33, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Description: Would it be possible to implement some sort of mail client on specific article alerts? I don't always have time for Wikipedia, but I do want to keep track of what's going on with my project, and I check my e-mail very often. Thanks, Res Mar 21:33, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Comments: @ Resident Mario: This isn't possible, but RSS/Atom notifications are available for all pages on Wikipedia. Would that work? Sorry for the late reply, btw. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 16:18, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Filled by: Amatulic ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 15:53, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Description: Monitor categories that request attention from an expert, update alert notice when there is a change.
Comments:
A new
Category:Wine articles needing expert attention has recently been created. It would be nice if the page
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Article alerts currently being maintained by AAlertBot would be updated when articles appear in this category, which should happen when {{
Expert-subject}}
is added to a page with the parameter "wine".
Filled by: Gonzo fan2007 ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 16:12, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Description: It would be great if the Bot could provide a WP:DYK update whenever a Project article has appeared in the DYK section of the main page. I believe that each talk page is edited with {{ DYK talk}} or {{ ArticleHistory}} indicating it has been on the main page. If the bot could search for this and provide an alert, WikiProjects would be better able to capture this recognition and display it on their project page (something most WikiProjects try to do). Thanks! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:12, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Comments:
I'm following the page, I just have lots of real-world stuff I need to do and the feature requests is on a long backlog. DYK was requested before, but it's syntax did not follow other workflows. Just getting TFAs working was a major pain. I honestly don't know if I will get to this any time soon unless I win the lottery. Hopefully, WMF
can get on it soon. —
HELLKNOWZ ▎
TALK
14:33, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Filled by: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 14:34, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Description: It would be neat if we also have keyword-based subscriptions, e.g. for WP:JOURNALS,
|keywords = abhandlungen; bulletin; comptes rendus; journal; letters; notices; proceedings; publications of; review; transactions; zeitschrift
Where the bot would check for those keywords in the title of the page [t]/ main text [m] / categories on the page [c] / relevant discussions [d].
|keywords = journal[dmt]
would look for 'journal' in discussions, main text, titles. Because searching in the main text would lead to a lot of crap results, I suggest making [cdt] the default setting when unspecified, so
|keywords = journal
is the same as
|keywords = journal[cdt]
Default settings could be overidden
|keywords = journal[ct]
which would look for 'journal' only in categories and titles. And you could combine options to have something like
|keyword = journal; impact factor[mctd]; WP:AJ[d]; WP:JOURNALS[d]; WP:JCW[d]
Comments:
Filled by: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 12:36, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Description: Change it so |delsort=WikiProject Deletion sorting/Foobar
is just |delsort=Foobar
Comments:
@ Hellknowz: Well that's not quite a duplicate. E.g.
Currently, you'd need |delsort=Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Comics and animation
. But this would be simpler to have |delsort=Comics and animation
.
Headbomb {
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13:59, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Filled by: Headbomb ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 23:09, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Description: Subscribe via stubs
Comments: Would be useful for when something like {{ physics-stub}} is added, but nothing else. However, see below. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 23:09, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Filed by: Krelnik ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 23:42, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Description: Recently a DYK ran on the main page which used a 'hook' that a number of editors found offensive. Editors in the WikiProjects relevant to the article were appalled when they saw it, and would have intervened during the nomination if they had known about it. But as you know, the DYK process is a bit arcane and out of the normal travels of most editors. It is also not at all solvable using normal tools like watchlists, because the DYK work doesn't take place on the page itself or its talk page.
Including the DYK process in Article Alerts was proposed over 8 years ago. Can this be prioritized for future work, so we can prevent this happening again? Thank you. -- Krelnik ( talk) 03:42, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Next version will report DYK nominations (pending ( Template talk:Did you know) and approved ( Template talk:Did you know/Approved) but not queued ( Template:Did you know/Queue)) similar to how it reports TFARs. It will look like this. I have not yet implemented closure and queued DYKs, because I need some time to pass with active DYKs running so I can test it properly. (There are a few known issues, but there's also so much non-standard stuff going on with DYK; I will need to fix and adjust one thing at a time.) — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 15:47, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
Extending prods to pages in the portal namespace has just been proposed (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 6: Proposed Deletion for portals). Would showing prodded portals in article alerts need any adjustment to the bot, and if so would that be a difficult and/or time consuming task for you? Thryduulf ( talk) 22:28, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Looks like a whole lot of portals are going through MfD, so that seems to be the current conclusion on how to handle them. There are so many entries at the moment that the Portals article alerts page fails to upload due to page size limits. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 12:48, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Filled by: Philepitta ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 23:57, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Description: I was wondering if there is a way to list articles newly tagged with a template for a specific project? If not, would you consider adding this as a feature for this bot (perhaps as an extra tab on the existing alerts page for each Wikiproject)? I was hunting around and didn't see a way to do this. I think that it would be useful for interested editors to be able to see a list of new articles in the scope of a project, as it may bring to their attention articles that they are interested in helping to improve. This may be especially useful for smaller wikiprojects, which are likely to have only a small number of new articles at any given time. Such a feature might also help connect editors interested in related topics, and allow wikiprojects to reach out to new editors who have begun to edit in a particular area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philepitta ( talk • contribs) 23:57, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Comments:
As much as I'd love to extend the bot to provide different lists, like new articles, I'm afraid this is out of scope for the bot at the moment. I recognize the usefulness, but I am already very short on time to actively work on it and there are a lot of other features to implemented and bugs to squash. However, see User:InceptionBot that makes reports like this. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 08:25, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Filled by: Trialpears ( talk · contribs)
Time filed: 21:16, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Description: Add alerts for merger and split discussions
Comments: This has been suggested several times before most notably in 2009. The previous discussions brought up a few concerns which I will address here:
I also want to mention that it's more important for merger discussions to be finished in a timely manner than most other discussion since the proposer often times will perform the actual merger if they're still active and working on the article while the burden for merging proposals thate were stale for several months often fall on WikiProject Merge which barely can cope with the backlog as is. Adding mergers to article alerts would likley lead to significant decreases in the merge and split backlogs which would be of large interest to the project as a whole. Trialpears ( talk) 21:16, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Filled by: Headbomb
Time filed: 04:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Description: Could the bot be extended include custom categories? For example say WP Chemistry is interested in monitoring a hypothetical what is covered by the "Chemist biography taskforce" (from the Biography banner) and "History of Chemistry taskforce" (from the History of Science banner). It would then add something like |extracats=Chemist biography articles, History of Chemistry taskforce articles" to the subscription template.
Comments:
De-archived. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 14:25, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
|security=yes
on {{
WikiProject Computing}}|network
, |software
, |science
, etc. from {{
WikiProject Computing}} --
Pnm (
talk)
20:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)