User:GreenC bot/Job 15

Mismatch reports for Featured articles and lists

• fambot is a bot to create the report at Wikipedia:Featured articles/mismatches.
• gambot is a bot to create the report at Wikipedia:Good articles/mismatches.
• flmbot is a bot to create the report at Wikipedia:Featured lists/mismatches.

What it does

The section headers and documentation should be self-explanatory.

Technical

The bot runs from my local computer. It is in GNU awk and uses the WP:BOTWIKIAWK library.

GitHub: https://github.com/greencardamom/WikiMismatchReports

Known troubles

• If the bot(s) ever stop working the most likely cause is a change in syntax at Wikipedia:Good articles/all, Wikipedia:Featured articles or Wikipedia:Featured lists. The bot parses these pages and expects a certain format. The functions are getlistfaa(), getlistgaa() and getlistfla() in fambot.awk, gambot.awk and flmbot.awk respective.

• If a page name is reported mismatched but otherwise looks exactly the same, check for hidden characters by deleting it from the source list (eg. Wikipedia:Featured articles) and manually re-typing - not copy-paste.