Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WPPageListBot

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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

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)

Withdrawn by operator.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)

Closing. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 15:19, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

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