Wikipedia:Article alerts/Specification

This page is intended as a specification of the features of AAlertBot. It is not complete yet.

Page retrieval
Pages from workflows are retrieved in either of two ways – from a category or from template usage. Category is simply retrieving all relevant-namespace pages in that category (e.g. Category:All articles proposed for deletion). Template is similar, except template aliases, i.e. redirects, are also retrieved and then each alias' transclusions are added (e.g. rfc).