Wikipedia talk:Article alerts

Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Article alerts

Hellknowz and Headbomb: I reverted AAlertBot's latest edit of Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Article alerts. The edit summary explains the issue: Undid revision 1162621881 by AAlertBot (talk) the markup ... see [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/{{Infobox film ... cannot possibly be right. Please try again.Anomalocaris (talk) 18:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It'll overide it again tomorrow. File a bug report and hopefully Hellknowz can get to it shortly. Or maybe there's a problem with the nomination itself. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:12, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Anomalocaris: The nomination is definitely broken. It reported it this way because the bot doesn't check or sanitize the template field and the template field included all of the article. I fixed the broken syntax. But I don't see a page where the MfD has actually been created, so it's a redlink. I set the bot to get the page again next run. —  HELLKNOWZ  TALK 22:17, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GANs not showing on WikiProject Sweden

I discovered the recently passed GANs for Astrid Lindgren and Basshunter through DYK. It turns out that alerts were properly given at the other wikiprojects listed on their talkpages, but for some reason there was no notice at WikiProject Sweden/Article alerts (archive). Is there a technical issue at play here? Thanks. Draken Bowser (talk) 13:02, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's because the project was only subscribed to Deletion sorting and all articles found in Category:WikiProject Sweden articles directly. I've fixed it. The functionality had been broken since 2021. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:35, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What is the proper way to insert new items to the alerts section?

Hello,

I would like to ask two questions about the alerts section:

  1. I understand that there is a bot running and updating the section automatically. Where can I see the criterions that must exist for the bot to insert items to the section? I would also like to ask what are the hours in which the bot runs.
  2. Is it possible to insert items manually? if so, is there a specific structure that I must use?

HilbertSpaceExplorer (talk) 08:20, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@HilbertSpaceExplorer: What is "the alerts section"? You should always state which page you are referring to. As for the second part of question 1, AAlertBot (talk · contribs) runs once a day, at 07:00 (UTC) - you can tell how long it typically runs by the history of User:AAlertBot/Status. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:59, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the reply. I refer to the "alerts" in WikiProject Israel:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel/Article alerts
all the questions I asked refer to that page.
HilbertSpaceExplorer (talk) 10:22, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
As you can see in the main list, "WikiProject Israel" is subscribed via talk page banner Template:WikiProject Israel and to listings at delsort page Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Israel. So any page that has the banner or any page manually added to the delsorting would appear in the report. You cannot manually add the pages - generally, you have to tag them as belonging to the project with the banner. (Technically, you can change the report page, but the bot will overwrite and delete the entries anyway.) —  HELLKNOWZ  TALK 15:20, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the reply. Will adding the banner also insert the page to the correct place in the alerts section?
Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel/Article alerts
I don't understand for example, how can the bot decide if an article should be placed under "Requests for comments" or under "Requested moves" if the tagging is the same for both cases.
HilbertSpaceExplorer (talk) 17:55, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the page will get inserted to whichever section it belongs to. The banner on the talk page will let the bot know that this page belongs to the project. The actual section or workflow, like "Requests for comments" is decided by the specifics of that Wikipedia process. This gets complicated fast and there are full details at User:AAlertBot/Workflows. The short version is that each workflow has some way to find pages - from category (e.g. Category:Articles for deletion), from template (e.g. Template:Proposed deletion/dated), etc. So, for example, when the bot sees a page that has a Template:WikiProject Israel and Category:Articles for deletion, it knows it's a deletion discussion for the Israel project and will place it in the AfD section of the Israel alerts page. —  HELLKNOWZ  TALK 19:08, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Understood. I appreciate the detailed answer. Thank you again!
HilbertSpaceExplorer (talk) 22:05, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pixar work group

It looks like article alerts haven't worked in the Pixar work group since 2011, but I'm not sure how to fix the issue. Anyone know what should be done? ZooBlazer 18:57, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I re-added the subscription. Looks like it got removed here. —  HELLKNOWZ  TALK 09:36, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. The bot didn't deliver anything, and I believe it's because there are no changes since the last time it saw the data. The bot kind of ignores the fact that it hasn't actually written the previous data to the report. I guess one has to wait for anything to change before it writes something. I haven't really implemented any way to check the last delivery date. —  HELLKNOWZ  TALK 10:01, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of minor change to Module:RfD

I trust that this edit to a template comment is not a breaking change. wbm1058 (talk) 03:25, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't do anything. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:48, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Wbm1058: I can go further. Since the first letter of a page name is case-insensitive, not only does the change not break anything, it cannot break anything; and moreover is, other than the purely cosmetic change, completely pointless. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:31, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redrose64, no, not pointless, or I wouldn't have made the change. The MediaWiki system may be case insensitive regarding the first letter, because it's been coded to be that way. However, the Lua Module:String is not case-insensitive with regards to the first character of the string passed into it. I had to make this edit to get Template:R from move/except to behave the way I wanted it to. – wbm1058 (talk) 00:06, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed changes to RM templates

Would it affect AAlertsBot if some requested moves had a new parameter after the title(s)? For example:


Single-move RM

{{requested move/dated|NewTitle|protected=yes}}

Multi-move RM

{{requested move/dated|multiple=yes|current1=A|new1=B|current2=C|new2=D|protected=yes}}

I have drafted some changes to Module:Requested move and {{Requested move/dated}} so that {{subst:RM}} will automatically check current and proposed titles for page protection (admin or template-editor) and, if found, add a |protected= parameter to the resulting {{requested move/dated}} in new requested moves. See Template talk:Requested move#Detecting and showing page protection for more info and sandbox links.

I did a small test to see if this would cause any issue with AAlertBot by adding |protected=yes to one existing RM. The article alert was added as usual. SilverLocust 💬 20:53, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for mentioning this. It should not cause issues, no. When parsing templates, the bot generally looks for expected parameters and ignores everything else. —  HELLKNOWZ  TALK 21:30, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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