Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Archive 3

Suggestions for additional workflows to be covered
Please add new suggestions at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Feature requests.


 * WP:DRVs, that have the template Delrev on article page
 * not feasible - most articles on DRV are actually deleted during the discussion, so the project assignments cannot be determined. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to add that WP:DRV may be difficult, since usually the talk page of the article is deleted, so the project association is lost. --B. Wolterding (talk) 19:05, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * With admin rights, this could be doable. The AAB would have to monitor what gets on WP:DRV, then retrieve the stuff on the last version of the talk page of those articles. It wouldn't be perfect since these the templates on these pages might be those still used (and it would obviously not cover things that didn't get a project template on their talk page), but it would be better than nothing.Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 07:24, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Seems possible in principle, although many details might be difficult. I've left a question on WP:BOWN regarding that. --B. Wolterding (talk) 18:01, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Per the discussion at WP:BOWN, it's doable but only with substantial effort. (In particular, both I and Legoktm would first have to pass RFA.) But CBM mentioned another option for implementing this, using data from the new WP 1.0 bot. Will check that once the new bot is live in a few months. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:44, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Are WP:RfD and WP:IfD covered? I don't think they would have a lot of use, but it seems rather trivial to implement.Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree that they would be easy to implement (perhaps modulo the discussion links). But if they are very seldomly used, I would have trouble even in testing the implementation. Do you know of any (current or recent) examples of project-tagged pages on RFD or IFD? --B. Wolterding (talk) 19:55, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Striking this here, separate request exists at /Feature requests. --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:53, 14 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I've just set this up for WikiProject Somerset & noticed that a relevant Category discussion (Category:Wells) had not been picked up. I think this is because Categories for discussion is not included in the feeds. Is there any particular reason for this?&mdash; Rod talk 14:36, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * In fact the bot currently looks for Categories for Deletion, but not for Cateogories for Renaming. There's no particular reason for that, it's just that you are the first one to request Categories for Renaming to be included. --B. Wolterding (talk) 15:19, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Project-specific review workflows
I have received a number of requests (well, at least two) for handling project-specific review processes, such as A-Class or an internal peer review. I am a bit reluctant to implement these, since the bot now has more than 50 subscribers, and I cannot adapt it to each and every project individually. On the other hand, it may be possible to find some project independent solution that allows to include these workflows nevertheless. As a preliminary idea, one could set up a category like, which the bot scans, and modify the project's templates accordingly.

I am currently quite busy with this real life thing, and won't be able to implement the change on the short term. (There are also still a lot of other changes to be done, such as the collapsible sections.) Nevertheless, I'd like to see which projects are interested in including such internal processes in the article alerts, and what processes these are. So I invite your responses below. So far, I have heard of WikiProject India (peer review) and WikiProject Films (A-class review). --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:07, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Right now I do WikiProject Ohio's peer review and A-Class review by hand, but they're few and far enough between it doesn't bother me that much. §hep  • Talk  07:32, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * IMO, the internal review should be a secondary concern. When I proposed this bot, the main motivation was that to help WikiProjects to follow what happens to their articles outside of their project, and to get more input in the various processes of Wikipedia. Anyone can nominate List of quasiparticles for deletion, or for peer review, but not everyone will notify WikiProject Physics (or it might take quite a while before someone does so). While it'd be a neat feature to have, the various projects should already know of internal reviews (else it's not much of an internal review), so there's isn't really a need for such a feature. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 20:33, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Members at WP:MILHIST however, raise a good point when it came to bigass projects with many task forces: it would make things easy to coordinate between taskforces, etc... so I might have been too hasty to dismiss the idea and "nice but unecessary".Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 00:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The whole idea is to get everything as automated as possible. The more the bot can pickup the better, as it means less work for project members. I would still support this type of functionality. §hep  Talk  00:44, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, maybe this can be the next larger addition to the bot. It would probably introduce a number of changes. But let's first collect some examples of actual workflows / processes that might fall in this category. I'm adding one below; if you know of more, please add others. --B. Wolterding (talk) 20:30, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Next rollout?
Hi,

A number of bug fixes have been implemented meanwhile (most importantly, the one regarding closure of deletion processes), and the "advertisement campaign" is a number of days back. Does anyone object if the next bot version goes live over the next days? --B. Wolterding (talk) 23:46, 29 March 2009 (UTC)


 * As far as I'm concerned, the faster updates roll out the better. BTW, the toolserver bug report pages is going crazy in the last few days. What's up with that? Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:34, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I sent the new version to Legoktm. For the toolserver bug report page, I'm not sure what the reason is, I'll keep it on the radar. --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:57, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

FAC changes
I believe this could be of relevance for AAlerts: FCDW/FACRollout. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 03:52, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the alert; yes, this will indeed be relevant. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:15, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Opt-out for "Other news"
Note that with the new bot version, you can now opt-out from the "Other news" section. To that end, include the parameter "workflows=ALL,!NEWS" in your subscription template. Or, if you are already using the workflows parameter for other purposes, append ",!NEWS" to it. --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:18, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

notability tag
Does the bot pick up articles that have had a notability tag added? What about the unreferenced tag, etc? Bubba73 (talk), 03:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * No. For notification about cleanup tags like these, see Cleanup listings.Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 06:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Disabled for maintenance reasons
So when is this bot going to be enabled from being disabled for "maintenance reasons (bug fixes)"? It's been over a week now?   The Windler    talk  06:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * No idea. B. Wolterding's not edited since April 3rd. I'm eager to see it running again, it's sorely missed at WP:PHYS and its taskforces.Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 06:20, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem should be fixed now (at least temporarily). I hope the bot runs again tonight (but I currently can't do much more, being away on a holiday). --B. Wolterding (talk) 11:35, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Help: WPNZ
Hi,

Article alerts were working for Wikiproject New Zealand since we first subscribed, but WikiProject New Zealand/Article alerts is currently showing an error message. This appears to be something to do with pages having WPNZ, but that actually being a redirect to WikiProject New Zealand. However, I'm totally confused as to what to do to fix it. dramatic (talk) 08:45, 19 April 2009 (UTC)


 * It's been fixed by Gadfium (See ). The bot needs the actual banner, and not the redirect (see for what caused the problem). You won't get any reports today, but you'll get some tomorrow. I've reverted the alert report to yesterday's version in the meantime. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:18, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Archiving
I've boldly added auto archiving for threads 30+ days old. -- Banj e b oi   15:37, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the edit, but there are old discussions that are still relevant, human-archiving is more appropriate. These also serve as a "to do/reminder" list for B. Wolterding, so he archives things as he sees fit. Nonetheless, there are still discussions that could be archived, so I'll look into it. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:46, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

BLP suggestion
It may be too many for some projects but some filters to show BLPs with fact tags and POV, etc templates may be useful. -- Banj e b oi   15:38, 21 April 2009 (UTC)


 * User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings may be of help here. If you still think it should be a feature, you can make a request at WP:AAlerts/FR.Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:55, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:CRIME and WP:CRIMINAL
The project has two banners, one for crime articles WikiProject Crime and one specifically for biographies WP Criminal. Someone commented that although we have what we think are requests for both banners, we're getting duplicate posts. Could someone check this out and help if we've not posted our request for reports correctly? Thanks. Wildhartlivie (talk) 22:24, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

On this Day
OTD tagging is complete and User:AnomieBOT will tag things regularly, so people should start get OTD notices. Relevant categories are those found in Category:Selected anniversaries and the template is OnThisDay. B.Wolterding might want to confirm that AABot will handle things correctly. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 23:13, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Pokemon
It looks like this has already been set up, but it's not working. I would like to start using this, but I dont know how to get it working. Help? --Blake (talk) 01:10, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * See Wikipedia_talk:Article_alerts/Bugs. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:21, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, so the é makes it go crazy and not work? That makes sense. What can we do to fix it? --Blake (talk) 13:11, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Well a quick (but sorta ugly) fix would be to move Template:WikiProject Pokémon to Template:WikiProject Pokemon (and redirect Template:WikiProject Pokémon to Template:WikiProject Pokemon). Then you could use on your page, and things would work. After the bug is resolved, you could move the template back to its original place, and use the regular  . Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 14:18, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * So, you are saying change the name, set up the alerts, then change it back? I will have to check with the Project to see if they are ok with that. --Blake (talk) 15:05, 21 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm saying. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 15:11, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

CFDEL
I see that one of the workflows is Categories for Deletion however I'd suggest renaming that to Categories for Discussion since that's what it is. Secondly, Categories for discussion/Log/2009 May 19, 3 days old now, never was listed at WikiProject LGBT studies/Article alerts even though the subscription parameter we have set is  |workflows=ALL,!NEWS . So what's going on. Are we doing something wrong? - ALLST✰R ▼ echo wuz here @ 18:15, 22 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I would suggest filling a bug report. B. Wolterding is away right now, so I don't know when he'll be able to fix it, but he should get back to it eventually.Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:46, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Back (somewhat)
Hello,

just wanted to say that I did not find much time in the past weeks to look into bot issues (as you will have noticed). I was quite busy with other things. I hope I will be able to make some improvements over the next week or so, beginning with the bugs rather than the feature requests.

On the other hand, there seem to be no immediate urgent issues, so perhaps it's good to just leave the machine running sometimes ;)

Thanks to everybody who helps keeping the bot working and giving support, Headbomb in particular. --B. Wolterding (talk) 19:41, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Is it still working?
Havent' received an update on the WP:WikiProject Bristol page for a while. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Yup, the alerts are up and running. See ArticleAlertbot's contributions. I guess there simply hasn't been anything related to Bristol articles than has happened since June 25. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:47, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Is there any particular reason why it hasn't done anything at all for any project since July 31st? Nanonic (talk) 02:43, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll contact the bot op.Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 03:36, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It's also been a week since any updates at WikiProject Video games. MuZemike 02:54, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * WP:CHICAGO has been without service all of August.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:09, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Deprods
Is there a way to subscribe to all deprods? Fences &amp;  Windows  00:57, 1 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Last I heard, the deprodding of articles was reported. See WikiProject Biography/Article alerts for more examples than you could ever wish for.Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 03:46, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * For the slow ones in the class, how to subscribe to a list of all the deprods across all articles, not just on one Wikiproject, and nothing else? Fences  &amp;  Windows  03:35, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, well then I am not sure if it is possible; I think the alert bot wants a category containing the talk pages of the articles. It is possible that using the |wgcat= parameter could produce results, something like would work, but I am unsure. B. Wolterding should know (I would suggest leaving him a message pointing to here). If it turns out it is not feasable, then I would suggest making a bot request, and someone will be able to code something in a relatively short ammount of time I'm sure. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 04:01, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

WP Syria
In WikiProject Syria the bot hasn't been working since July, any idea why?! Yazan (talk) 07:35, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Same with WP Palestine, hasn't been working since July. --Al Ameer son (talk) 18:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Dumb question
Can anyone tell me how WikiProject Biography/Article alerts is generated. For the life of me I can't find the ArticleAlertbotSubscription anywhere on the project page. PC78 (talk) 20:57, 31 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, that one is a leftover from the demo-phase I think. Some projects were hand-coded into the bot (rather than through subscriptions). I thought Legoktm and B.Wolterding removed all of them, but maybe not. They could confirm if this is the case. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:31, 31 August 2009 (UTC)


 * True, this "subscription" is hand-coded. I used it at a lot for testing, as the Biography project is so large that most workflows, special situations, etc. can be seen there once in a while. (And I still find it useful for that purpose.) --B. Wolterding (talk) 22:32, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Visual arts
I'm slightly confused here. It says at Article alerts/Subscribing:
 * To subscribe for article alerts, place the ArticleAlertbotSubscription template on the main page of your WikiProject or work group (aka task force, subproject) at a position you would like links to the alerts to appear.


 * The article alerts list (i.e., the bot output) will then be generated as a subpage of your project page, for example: WikiProject Yellow Tulips/Article alerts.

First part is fine, but the bot output is generated on the main project page, not, as far as I can see, on a subpage. See ]  Ty  12:03, 16 September 2009 (UTC)


 * It's being transcluded (via the template) from WikiProject Visual arts/Article alerts. PC78 (talk) 12:13, 16 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, sorted. I got the subpage link wrong (lower case P on Project).  Ty  02:39, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

RSS feeds?
The news item says that RSS/Atom feeds for a given page should be linked in its toolbox.

However, I see no such thing for WikiProject_Constructed_languages/Article_alerts... Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 04:51, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Er, I'm stupid. It was there on the article *history* page. (Though perhaps it should be linked from the main article page too...) Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 04:54, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Something's broken
See WP:CUE. It listed a whole bunch of entries, but gave them all the same name. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 17:16, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, they're all discussed in the same AfD. Hence the discussion sections all have the same title. Since the headline are not direct bot output, but contained in transcluded pages, this behaviour is unavoidable. --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:35, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 00:52, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Featured deletions?
What's the deal with this? As far as I can tell, Featured Deletions is a humorous page with no content, yet it's apparently supported by Article Alerts. Is there any reason for this? PC78 (talk) 21:35, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Inline discussions
Why are inline discussions only shown for peer review at WikiProject Films/Review/Article alerts? PC78 (talk) 23:38, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Requested moves
How does one add or remove Requested Moves using the workflows parameter? I'm guessing it's RM, but can someone please clarify because it doesn't appear to be covered in the documentation. PC78 (talk) 02:53, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Anyone? I've tried RM and RQM but neither seem to work. PC78 (talk) 15:49, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Cover redirects?
Does this cover redirects? If not, then I think it ought to. --Blargh29 (talk) 02:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

WP:Article Incubator
Not sure if WP:Article Incubator is going to takeoff, but if it does, then the Article alerts system must catch any move of project pages into the incubator area. I just found one by accident. I think the left hand needs to know what the right hand is doing. The-Pope (talk) 15:42, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there probably shouldn't be any moves of project pages into the incubator. (I'm speaking as one of the people who started the incubator project.) I definitely support adding the incubator to Article Alerts, and have made the request on the Feature Requests page here. Is that page actively monitored? It seems rather empty. -GTBacchus(talk) 18:45, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

WP:BANKSIA
I note that the current Banksia sessilis FAC is not listed at WikiProject Plants/Article alerts, despite WP:BANKSIA being a daughter project of WP:PLANTS. Could you tweak your settings please? Hesperian 00:52, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

WP:RUN
We had article alerts working well on WP:RUN. Then somebody changed the page and it stopped working. I then reverted the change, but the old process was not restored. Could someone please help? Racepacket (talk) 09:44, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The bot is down for the moment. It'll stay down until someone fixes it, so I can't tell you when the bot will be able to run again. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:03, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Why is it down? Who can fix it? Is it being discussed somewhere? If so, may I suggest a flashy notice at the top of this discussion page and main project page, as others may come here asking the same questions :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:51, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * It would be appreciated if the bot's owner/manager would provide an update as to its status. Is it ever going to return to life?  <font color="#880088">PK <font color="#449900">T (alk)  11:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

It's down because the API changed because of security issues related to logins. The bot coder, B. Wolterding, is inactive and has been almost always inactive for the last several months. The issue has been brought up to WP:BOT, and User:Tedder volunteered to update the bot. However, Tedder doesn't have a toolserver account yet, and his application has been up in the air for the last 6-8 months. See User_talk:Legoktm/April_2010 for more details. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 12:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah. is mostly inactive but not totally gone. He has came back in March to fix another bot issue. If asked on his talkpage/email, I'd assume he would be willing to help out, at least briefly. So hopefully article alerts are not dead. Still, it would be nice to have a working backup in the future that is not one-person-dependent. Any way to speed up Tedder's application? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 04:52, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

cross wiki run
hi, the bot can cross wiki run? I would to run him in the zh wp, or give me source code, I run it in zh wp？ thx --Shizhao (talk) 19:45, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, we don't have the code :( Feel free to bug the creator of the bot, maybe he will release it one day :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:05, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

BOT broken ?
Hi all

There is a message on the ARS page saying the alert bot is broken ArticleAlertbot is down for an indeterminate period of time. Apologies for the inconvenience. can someone recharge its batteries or kick it or summat plz ?

thanks

Chaosdruid (talk) 12:43, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, the bot creator, who is now inactive, has not released its code, so the unless somebody rebuilds it from scratch, or he comes back, I am afraid no progress will be made :( --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:34, 13 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Can the bot creator be contacted via email or something? Bejinhan  Talk   06:49, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * If a bot runs on Wikimedia servers, is the code still not stored anywhere on those servers? Pardon my ignorance, but while I am brilliant in many ways, the last programming I was involved with relied on BASIC. :) I simply wondered if there is any accessible spot that the code would reside other than on the creator's own machine(s). Lawikitejana (talk) 21:34, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I think there is let me do some checking and Ill get back. --Kumioko (talk) 18:17, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok I have done some checking and the code is not available to start this bot back up so the only way to get this bot back running is if someone does a Bot request to recode the thing from sctratch. If you want to give thata go you can submit it here WP:BOTREQ. Good luck --Kumioko (talk) 12:46, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * You can try to ask User:Legoktm for the code. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:36, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I sent EMAILS to both users and it appears that requests have been left on their talk pages with no response yet. I also asked a couple of folks to look at their toolserver accounts for the code (there wasn't any) and I looked through their namespaces in case they kept the code there with no luck. I am open to other ideas if anyone has some. A couple of the developers have stated that they would be willing to give a shot at rewriting the code but knowone seems to know exectly how it did what it did, so its hard to recreate without seeing at least a partial of the code. Thanks for the suggestion though. --Kumioko (talk) 16:45, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I honestly cannot understand why they up and left but took the bot with them; however I think we should wait a week or so before anyone starts coding anything major, to allow the emails to take effect (if they're like me then they check their email fairly rarely). <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:black;">Res</b> Mar 02:46, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well that's a week. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:black;">Res</b> Mar 21:34, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * And that's two. <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:black;">Res</b> Mar 16:44, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * See discussion over problems which looks as though there was something happening with code in June. Keith D (talk) 10:27, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

French bot
Is there an equivalent to this bot on the French Wikipédia ? --<font face="Times" color="#4590ff" size="2">AlainR345<font color="#ffb000">Techno-Wiki-Geek 20:54, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Bot returning?
Is there any word on if and when the bot will be returning? It was very useful to our project. Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 18:26, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed. It was a hot thing when it came out and it's been out for far too long. What's the problem exactly? <span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><b style="color:black;">Res</b> Mar 15:55, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Check out my comment above. --Kumioko (talk) 16:31, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I really miss it - it was a wonderful tool for projects. Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 00:15, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Too bad it's still down, it was really a great tool for WPs!! Wish someone could figure out how to start it up again. :) --Funandtrvl (talk) 21:24, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Article Alert Bot, please upload source
Article Alert Bot, could you please upload your source code somewhere that we can access it. Even if it is to your userspace. Make sure you remove your password first and email it to another reputable user. Also, bot, please remind your owners to be a little bit more awake. ;) Thanks, Arlen22 (talk) 18:35, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Sent, and if anyone else needs it, please email me. Thanks LegoKontribsTalkM 23:15, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hooray!! --Funandtrvl (talk) 03:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes? No?
I'm having trouble following the threads ... is there news? Is the A-alertbot coming soon? - Dank (push to talk) 16:41, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Soon, yes. Perhaps a week or two. Or, if we run into roadblocks, it could take longer. Arlen22 (talk) 18:08, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks much. - Dank (push to talk) 18:20, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

More complicated request
I am attempting to get WikiProject United States going again and I have a somewhat complicated request. I would like to get alerts for all of the 100+ projects and task forces that fall under WPUS added to a single page (some of them might be requesting individually as well) under WPUS. Is this possible and if so what do you need from me? If possible I would like to transclude them as was recently done for the Unreferenced BLP's by Dashbot [[Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/US related unreferenced BLPs
 * here]]. --Kumioko (talk) 15:40, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * You can have the templates dump all talk pages in one "workgroup" category such as "Category:All WP USA-related articles", and specify that category to the template ( . See 'Article Alerts: Subscribing – Choosing what articles to subscribe for' for further details.


 * Note however that bot is currently down. I don't know when it'll back up, but it should be soon-ish if all things go well. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 08:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)