Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Tool
This page reserved for a tool being developed to help with red link recovery.
Smallman12q (talk) 17:32, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Operation
[edit]The Red Link Recovery Tool,RLRT (aka the Red Link Recovery Assistant,RLRA) works in the following manner:
- Startup Verification
On start up it verifies if you are on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Tool/Allowed users list. -If you are, the tool will load, else it will not.
- Startup Load list
After verifying that the user has permission to use the tool, it will build the 3 lists: referring article(s), the red link, and suggested targets. Currently, the lists are anchored to the red link list, though in the future, you should be able to anchor to any list.
First the program will load the three lists from info given in Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Tool/Diacritics. On first startup, the user will be assigned a pool of 200 links from Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Tool/Diacritics to User:<username>/RLRT/Diatrics Pool.js. The program will then mark off in the main Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Tool/Diacritics that the 200 links have been "rented" for a period of 1 month to the user, after which if they are unsolved or skipped, will be recycled back into the main pool.
The information is stored in the following format:
titles in "<"|red link|target articles in "<"
After it loads these three lists, it will look for already completed terms/exceptions/skipped terms at users.
To update these three lists, the tool accesses the Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Tool/Users list. From there it will look up User:<username>/RLRT/Diatrics Status.js under the sections "Exceptions","Completed",and "Skipped".
- Logging
On exiting, the program will attempt to post a log to User:<username>/RLRT/Log.js under that days date. If it cannot post the log, it will save it as a text file and will attempt to post it later.