User talk:AlexNewArtBot/NZSearchResult

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I find the feed most useful in identifying new articles related to New Zealand. I look at every article, and improve most of them. Almost all of these articles would slip by unnoticed if the bot didn't put them onto this page.

I don't put the articles onto Wikipedia:New articles (New Zealand) any more, but I wonder if we need to have the {{la}} and {{User}} templates used. The User information is deleted from each entry when it's moved; it might save work if it wasn't there in the first place. I'm not sure if anyone finds the links created by La useful either.-gadfium 00:18, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

As the person who 'does' now do the copying the the new articles list, I do the following:

1. Copy all the entries for a day into a text editor (Editplus)
2. do a line sort,
3. delete the dates via single replace all,
4. delete the users.

Step 4 would be easy if I could work out a regex which matches }} * }} (no luck yet!), but I don't mind the user being there - it is often handy to see who created the article without having to open its history.

My main gripe is that if we delete an article from the searchresult (because it is deemed not sufficiently relevant to New Zealand) within 48 hours, the article is re-listed on the next bot run. Is there any way of preventing this? dramatic 03:14, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

I find that replacing "}}.*}}" with "}}" works for me, using Visual Slickedit (and with Unix regular expressions turned on). The .* means replace any character (.) any number of times (*).-gadfium 05:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Given that another user did the last update on the page and the articles themselves haven't disappeared from the bot list, is the above still the current process? And is the list of steps complete? Schwede66 00:54, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Ok, here's a more up-to-date process:

1. Patrol all pages, tagging, improving etc. as time allows.
2. Move entries for pages without sufficient NZ connection to the section at the bottom of the page. Trim that setion to 4 days worth by deleting older listings.
3. Cut and paste remaining entries to the new articles list and trim everything other than the {{la}} template. (I no longer sort, and have stopped including the time of creation, so I don't bother with a text editor any more). Leave at least one article in the top section of the bot results.
4. Insert the next day's heading in the new articles list (it speeds up editing)

• The bot currently seems to be running on a 48-hour cycle, so pages are a bit older before they get processed.
• This is also the ideal time to tag listed articles for WPNZ and assess them.
• If nobody processes for a while, missed results can be retrieved from the archive.
• I see from the above that I've been doing this for the best part of 3 years. If someone else is willing to take over, it would free me up to do other wikistuff (currently involved in assessment drive). dramatic (talk) 08:11, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Missed articles

• Purerua Peninsula - doesn't appear to have been noticed by the bot at all, although the format is very similar to other stubs I've recently created.-gadfium 20:34, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
• Paul Maunder - definitely had New Zealand slathered all over it, and ...
• Torpedo Billy Murphy - 4th Feb dramatic (talk) 03:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• Ruawai - 12 Feb.-gadfium 07:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)