Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot

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Page move

I moved Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using Mathbot to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Adding to the lists of subjects as I think the new title is more focused on what is going on rather than on who does the work. Wonder if there are any objections or suggestions for a better name.

I think it would be good to merge the information at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index of subjects into this Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Adding to the lists of subjects to keep all instructions in one place. I will do it soon. I think in a few days we should be ready to announce the WP1.0 via bot project to the community at large. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:25, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Oleg! Walkerma 05:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, I renamed the page again, to Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot. Basically it is back to Walkerma's idea, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using Mathbot , but without specifically mentioning mathbot, which is not that relevant. Ideas are welcome for a better name, if any. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 18:29, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments

How do I populate the comments field of the worklist? I know I can directly insert comments on the worklist page, but is there an attribute on the Wikiprojects banner that can be used? I know that Wikiproject Biographies does this but I dont know how yet. I do see that that have a Comments subpage on the article's talk page (such as Talk:Abraham Lincoln/Comments) but I tried this and it did not work. Any help would be appreciated.--NMajdan•talk 16:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Let us discuss this at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Needed-Class articles

I was working with WP:ACW and tagged some talk pages of what I believed to be needed articles. Is there a plan to implement the Category:Needed-Class articles in the same way as Category:Stub-Class articles, Category:Start-Class articles, etc.? I realize the WP:CSD policy poses an issue, but is there a way to get around it?

It's not a big deal to handle these manually, I'm mostly just curious. But, please see the discussion here. Thanks in advance. • CQ 17:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

see Template_talk:Grading_scheme#Needed-Class.3F. --kingboyk 18:15, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Please Help, I Thought I Did It Right

Hi WikiWizzards, I tried to set this up for WikiProject Israel, but have yet to have success. The bot says it worked, but I can't find the category on any of the lists, and the grid is not filling in. Any help is appreciated. --יהושועEric 20:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks fine to me.↔NMajdan•talk 21:12, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I went through and got everything to work except for the priority scale output. Any ideas? Thanks. --יהושועEric 21:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks like you did fine creating everything for the by-quality category. Are you having any specific issues with the by-importance category? The template looks set up for it but it doesn't look like the categories have been created yet and a couple of the talk pages I visited are not using a quality. Again, any specific issues you are having?↔NMajdan•talk 22:15, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I tried creating the categories for importance twice, but they will not populate or show up on the statistics grid. Do I need to edit the grid, the categories, or something else? --יהושועEric 23:12, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Try checking the template, and make sure that the top-level importance category is tagged as a subcategory of Category:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 00:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I think I might have got it all worked out. I don't think the column shows up unless there is an article with that classification. --יהושועEric 05:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Question

Will non article classes work with the bot? Such as list, portal and such? Joe I 18:36, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Red Hot Chili Peppers

I have set up everything at Category:Red Hot Chili Peppers articles by quality and run the bot, but for some reason it is not appearing in the index. Can anyone help? Kamryn Matika 14:02, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Working on it. For one, you forgot to place the "by quality" category in Category: Wikipedia 1.0 assessments. I'm running the web form right now to see if it gets picked up. Its in the index now and I'm just waiting for the statistics and log pages to get generated.↔NMajdan•talk 14:36, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

There you go.↔NMajdan•talk 14:38, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much :) Kamryn Matika 15:07, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

No Project

Hi! I was looking for an quality table for WP as a whole, and couldn't find it. Is it somewhere, or how can I make it?

Thanks, --SidiLemine 13:10, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

How about this? It looks pretty formidable :/ RHB - Talk 13:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

This is awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Now I can divide my time between the 500 something thousands of stubs that need pushing through GA. Thanks!--SidiLemine 13:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

While I'm at it.... You seem like a pretty knowledgeable person, and I always wanted to know how to make a list of articles (in a project or not) sorted by the number of articles that point to it. Any idea, or where to ask? --SidiLemine 13:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Losing articles...

According at the assessment statistics, the Korea WikiProject seems to have lost around 150 articles in the last week or so. Looking at the log, there are a number of articles listed as having their assessments removed, but the assessments are still there on the article talk pages! In most cases these "removals" seem to coincide with an edit I've made on the talk page, but I can't for the life of me see what the problem is. Can someone more knowledgeable than myself see what's wrong here? PC78 03:11, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

I see nothing wrong, all looks good, the categories are as they should be. This is very odd. Let's see if the bot adds them back next time it runs, in a few days. If it does not, we have a problem. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:08, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Just checked the log, and more articles have been removed - we're now about 250 down from this time last month. I can't see any difference between the ones the bot removes and the ones it doesn't. Very strange. PC78 16:53, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

This appears to be a serious problem. I will post this at WT:1.0/I. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:47, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Argh! This problem seemed to have sorted itself out, but I've just run the bot manually and we've lost around 1000 articles! This is very frustrating, and I'm out of ideas. Perhaps the bot will put them back next time it runs by itself? PC78 17:32, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Do sub-categories work?

For Category:U.S. road transport articles by quality, we have been sub-categorizing Category:Non-article U.S. road transport pages into Redirect-class, Template-class, etc.

However, this prompted the Assessment Bot to say that we removed the article from the project, which isn't exactly correct. Is there a way to get the bot to look at the subcategories of the non-articles. -- KelleyCook 16:59, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

The bot does not look into non-articles. If you would like to raise the issue of whether the bot should do that, you could try raising this issue at WT:1.0/I. If people want this, I can implement it. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:47, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Getting "importance" to work for wikiproject Somerset

I've created a banner template for Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset at Template:Somerset but I'm having real problems incorporating importance assessments (I've tried several times). We have Category:Somerset articles by importance and I've tagged a few articles but they don't seem to be detected by the bot - although the class: stub, start etc seems to work fine. Can anyone help or point me to a guide to doing this (in not too complex language). Also how do I put the box onto the project page to make the assessments of quality and importance show up (I'm currently updating this manually every few days)? Any help appreciated.— Rod ^talk 21:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I think I've solved it myself now.— Rod ^talk 18:56, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

There is a problem with {{tl:WikiProject Somerset}} or it's operation & I can't work out what it is.... I originally created {{Somerset}} for Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset & had advice that is wasn't working properly & didn't "nest" on article talk pages. I also took ages to get it to handle importance ratings. Then {{tl:WikiProject Somerset}} was created & a redirect put on {{Somerset}} and I added a few importance ratings to several articles. The bot has now been round & is displaying the results in relation to class & importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset#Current status. In the process we have now lost about 500 articles which had the original banner (including most of the FA, GA & B class) & I can't work out why. Some examples:

• Talk:List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset includes the line {{Somerset|class=FA}} and does show up in the current list
• Talk:Chew Valley includes {{Wikiproject Somerset|class=FA|importance=mid}} and does NOT show up in the listing
• Talk:Chew Valley Lake includes {{Somerset|class=FA|importance=mid}} & does NOT show.

So that gives the impression that anything with an importance ranking doesn't show up, however

• Talk:Kennet and Avon Canal which includes {{Somerset|class=GA|importance=mid}} does show up
• Talk:Chew Magna which includes {{Somerset|class=GA|importance=low}} does NOT.

I can not understand why some do & some don't appear, and would appreciate any help or advice. The best place for the discussion is probably Template talk:WikiProject Somerset.— Rod ^talk 19:28, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

How does list-class work?

In many of the sub-projects of WikiProject Canada, lists are put into both a category-by-quality and a list-category. The bot seems to be smart enough to only mention the article in the table under "lists" and not also under "b-class" or whatever. I'd like to know what exactly the bot is looking for so that I can fiddle with some categorization without screwing up this feature. Thank you. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The bot sorts the categories alphabetically. Since List-Class comes after B-class, any articles which were originally in B-Class get later reclassified as List-Class. So, I think that if given a B-Class and List-Class article the bot will display it as List-Class, and given a Stub-Class and List-Class the bot will choose the former (as further in the alphabet). At least that's how things should be. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:29, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Help, please.

I added class parameter to Template:WikiProject Toronto, but it doesn't seem to be working. Any tips? Also, is there an easy way to add the importance parameter? Thanks. --Padraic 16:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

You need to put Category:Toronto articles by quality in C:ategory:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments per the instructions, then make sure there is at least one article assessed for your project, and then run the bot. Hope that helps (belately). Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Please help.

I am trying to figure out how I can get the Statisical Summary to update. I don't know what I did or didn't do. I followed the instructions and I ran the bot and it did't give me a number on update the thing or anything. HELP!!! Here is the link to the one I am talking about. The statistics are for the WikiProject Arena Football League. Crash Underride 22:21, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I think it is because all the subcategories in Category:Arena Football League articles by quality are empty. Try to assess some articles for your project, and then rerun the bot. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:56, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Other class types - dab - template - cat

Does the bot work with the 3 other standard class types: Dab, Template, and Cat? Dbiel ^(Talk) 04:05, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

No, they're not standard classes for WP:1.0 purposes. Although that may be changed for the second generation of the bot. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 05:53, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:41, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Bot is overwriting log rather than appending

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Hospital articles by quality log The bot is overwriting the log rather than appending it each time it updates. Is this a bug or is there a setting that needs to be changed? Ng.j (talk) 06:58, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Answered, the maximum size of the log file is approximately 100,000 bytes. If the log will be larger it will split the update into multiple parts. If the current day's log is over 100k, it will be overwritten in the next day's log rather than appended. Ng.j (talk) 16:24, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Wiki cy

Can this be used on the Welsh language Wikipedia? Llywelyn2000 (talk) 07:16, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women not getting statistics page

The bot has run the article status page several times, but no statistics box has been created yet. Any idea what's happening here? John Carter (talk) 15:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC)