Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations/Report

Yet another reason why the Bot is just great!

 * From the May 26, 2007 update:

Music and musicians (8): Oldest: Cher

Difference?
What's the difference between Oldest nominations and Old nominations? The former is only 10, but it doesn't list the oldest article according to the latter.  Lara Love  13:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, Oldest noms includes also noms under review and on hold. Cheers, PrinceGloria 13:28, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I thought that, but when I checked, both include articles under review/on hold and articles still waiting.  Lara Love  13:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't notice this discussion earlier. The Oldest nominations section lists the ten oldest nominations, in which no activity (placed on hold, marked under review or requested a 2nd opinion) has taken place. The old nominations section in the exceptions report lists all nominations that are 30 days old or older, regardless of any activity that has taken place. I've updated the bot to output a better description for these sections; hope this clears it up! &mdash;Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 07:12, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Another distinction that I forgot to mention: The old nominations section in the exceptions report may be empty (if there are no nominations 30+ days old), but as long as there are any unreviewed nominations, there will be something in the Oldest nominations section. &mdash;Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 08:24, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. That makes sense.  Lara  ❤  Love  19:52, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Bot issues?
Have these reports stopped running? The last one was Sept 30, and it's now Oct 2. Dr. Cash 18:26, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The bot was running, but someone removed one of the special comments the bot uses to parse the page, so it couldn't do so. I've readded the comments and ran the bot manually. &mdash;Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 19:24, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Number of nominations
It would be really useful to have some idea how many articles are getting nominated. Could StatisticianBot count how many new nominations there are each day, and produce a cumulative? I realise it won't be exact because an article could get nominated and reviewed in 1 day, but over time it would be a good gauge of the demand growth on the GAN process. Geometry guy 18:50, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can do this, but it'll take at least a few days to get working, depending on the amount of time I have. &mdash;Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 18:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Many thanks indeed! Geometry guy 12:12, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess you are quite busy, but if you do get a moment, could you add this page to Category:WikiProject Good articles? Geometry guy 14:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yah, sorry, I have had no time lately to even start adding this task. I haven't forgotten, and will do it as soon as I can. I have added the category to the page, though. &mdash;Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 19:43, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Graph
Here's a graph of the backlog since the beginning of June. The upper curve is the number of listed articles at GAN and the lower curve is the number without a reviewer. The approximate trend of the number of listed articles, excluding the effects of the summer 2007 backlog elimination drive is shown by a dotted line (note this is not a statistical fit). It suggests steady growth of the backlog by 15-20 articles per month.

A rather startling feature is the rapid "bounce-back" after the backlog elimination drive. Geometry guy 14:07, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I update this graph from time to time. Geometry guy 18:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC)



Hurricane Charlie glitch
Not sure why, but the bot thinks the Hurricane Charlie article was listed in 1970. For some reason it isn't reading the date right, I looked at the nom and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. --Holderca1talk 18:52, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry I didn't see this earlier. It seems that the problem was that the Hurricane Charlie nomination had a timestamp of "24:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)", which obviously isn't a valid date. The bot tried to parse it but couldn't, hence the wrong timestamp. The bot can't take the dates as is because it needs to process the date for sorting oldest noms or determining if an on hold is overdue, for example. I added a check to the bot and now if it finds a bad date, it will add an entry to the malformed nominations list. &mdash;Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 16:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

On hold figures
Just a general note to warn editors that the information about articles on hold etc., is no longer accurate because many editors are using a different template system to indicate holds, which is not recognised by StatisticianBot. Geometry guy 13:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This should be fixed now, let me know if you encounter any problems. &mdash;Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 13:55, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Belated thanks for the fix! (I keep a pretty small watchlist!) Geometry guy 14:57, 28 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I have placed Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Lithuania on hold, but it still appears in the list - have I made a mistake somewhere? Parrot of Doom (talk) 21:21, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Reviewer statistics?
Are reviewer statistics tracked? Eg, how many GANs an editor has reviewed, their outcomes, how timely the review was completed, how long holds lasted, outcomes after holds, etc. Does holding lead to better articles? --Una Smith (talk) 03:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The only way that that is currently tracked, to my knowledge, is by humans. -–Drilnoth (T • C) 14:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Bot issues
I'm sorry that the bot hasn't updated this page in a few days; it appears that changes to mediawiki have made the bot's edits not make it through for some reason. I'm working on this issue and hope to have it fixed within the next couple days or so. Sorry for the inconvenience. &mdash;Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 14:37, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I see that articles I have passed or failed are still listed as un-reviewed. Jezhotwells (talk) 00:50, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Since the bot apparently hasn't worked for nearly a month and a half, perhaps the page text should be updated so that it doesn't say the bot updates every day. (I've never visited this page before today and was rather confused that none of the links I was clicking on were actually listed on the Nominees page.) Propaniac (talk) 22:45, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Current issues
The bot doesn't seem to have picked up the fact that the article Bill Harry is under review and is currently on hold. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:38, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Bot query
No updfate at 9:00am 7 April. has the bot fallen over? –– Jezhotwells (talk) 09:04, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * You're still top of the list (WikiProject Good articles/GAN backlog elimination drives/April 2010) - well done. Pyrotec (talk) 09:23, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Heh! –– Jezhotwells (talk) 11:25, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Links under Exception report
Is it possible to get a link to the review under ==Exception reports==? I'd rather click on "San Diego" and end up at talk:San Diego/GA1 than at the section of GAN that includes the listing. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:04, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Reports by page views
Would it make sense to run a report with something like the top 20 unreviewed GAN articles ranked by number of page views? Some articles deal with a very narrow subject. It may be useful to give reviewers a tool to focus on the most viewed articles. Barryjjoyce (talk) 17:14, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Abandoned review
G'day all, Talk:Toluid Civil War/GA1 has been abandoned by the erstwhile reviewer. How do we re-boot? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 15:05, 14 June 2014 (UTC)


 * You'll want to ask on WT:GAN whether someone wants to take it over. That might get a volunteer. If not, we can just put it back into the reviewing pool and wait for someone to pick it up fresh. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:53, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 October 2021
Messi just signed for PSG and is an argentinian GOAT. 185.70.90.36 (talk) 14:29, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Report. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:31, 7 October 2021 (UTC)