User talk:AlexNewArtBot/NZSearchResult
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Feedback[edit]
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:
- Copy all the entries for a day into a text editor (Editplus)
- do a line sort,
- delete the dates via single replace all,
- 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)
Ok, here's a more up-to-date process:
- Patrol all pages, tagging, improving etc. as time allows.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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[edit]
- 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)