GOCEbot

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This page is for discussion of the functionality of a possible bot to assist with administrative tasks on the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors page.

Possible functions are listed below. In summary:

  1. Old requests report. A list of the oldest 20 requests, sorted by age.
  2. Longest tag report. A list of the 20 articles that have been tagged longest with {{copyedit}}
  3. Backlog count. A count of the backlog, with two subcounts: requests and tags.

Old requests report

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A list of the 20 oldest requests for copyediting, found at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests sorted by age.

  1. Oldest request
  2. Second oldest request

E.g.

  1. John Doe 19:13, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
  2. Jane Doe 17:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Longest tag report

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A list of the 20 longest tagged articles with {{copyedit}} tags, which are listed by that tag template at Category:All articles needing copy edit, sorted by length of time they've had the tag.

  1. Longest tagged article
  2. Second longest tagged article

E.g.

  1. John Doe 19:13, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
  2. Jane Doe 17:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Backlog count

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Produce a daily report formatted like this:

<date> <time> -- <a> articles outstanding; <r> requests outstanding; <t> tags outstanding

Example:

19 Apr 2007 20:00 -- 7654 articles outstanding; 664 requests outstanding; 6990 tags outstanding