Wikipedia:Article alerts
- For notification about cleanup tags such as {{wikify}} and {{disputed}}, see Cleanup listings by B. Wolterding.
For notification about recently created articles that could be of interest to your project, see Alex Bakharev's NewArtBot.
Article Alert Bot 
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 Article Alert Bot at full speed | |
| Operator: | Legoktm |
| Author | B. Wolterding |
| Approved? | BRFA |
| Flagged? | Yes |
| Task/s: | Notify WikiProjects if any of their articles need attention |
| Edit rate: | Daily |
| Programming language/s: | Java |
| Other information: | This bot will not run if the toolserver is down |
Article Alerts is a fully-automated subcription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles tagged by their WikiProject/Taskforce template enter workflows (such as Articles for Deletion, Requests for Comments, Peer Review, and many more).
First ArticleAlertbot browses all the workflows in its scope, then checks for Wikiproject templates. If a subscribing Wikiproject/Taskforce is found, ArticleAlertbot will update a customized report called Article Alerts for that particular WikiProject or Taskforce. (An example of such a report can be found here.) Reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what is happening, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. So it is a good idea to request for a bot to place your WikiProject/Taskforce's banner on articles from relevant categories, so ArticleAlertbot covers more articles. (See also Tips and Tricks.)
ArticleAlertbot was coded and is updated by B. Wolterding and is operated by Legoktm. (See also the bot approval.) The bot runs on the tool server. While ArticleAlertbot has been running for a good while now, bugs and errors in the reports are still possible. PLEASE report those on the Bug reports page. Requests for new features or for new workflows are also welcomed on the Feature requests page, but might not be implemented on short notice depending how busy B. Wolterding is.
Workflows covered
- TBRO = To Be Rolled Out, UT = Under Test
- Proposed deletion
- Articles for deletion
- Miscellany for deletion
- Templates for deletion
- Stub types for deletion
- Categories for deletion
- Featured article candidates
- Featured article reviews
- Featured list candidates
- Featured list removal candidates
- Featured portal candidates
- Featured topic candidates
- Featured deletions
- Good article nominations
- Good article reassessment
- Good topic candidates
- Peer review
- Requests for comments
- Requested moves
- Today's featured article
- In the news
- Did you know
- On this day...
- Copyright problems
- Bounty board
- Other news
Samples
The table below shows an example of article alerts for WikiProject Comics.
| Article alerts for WikiProject Comics |
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Articles for deletion
Proposed deletions
Categories for discussion
Redirects for discussion
Files for discussion
Miscellany for deletion
Featured article candidates
Featured list candidates
Good article nominees
Good topic candidates
Requested moves
Articles to be merged
Articles to be split
Articles for creation
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| Updated daily by bot |
See also a lengthier list for WikiProject Biography.
Subscribing
In order to subscribe to the article alerts, place the {{ArticleAlertbotSubscription}} template somewhere on your WikiProject or WikiProject Taskforce's main page. By doing this you will subscribe to Article Alerts. For example if your WikiProject is WikiProject Tulips, the report will automatically be generated at Wikipedia:Wikiproject Tulips/Article alerts, and will be transcluded on the WikiProject Tulips mainpage wherever the template was placed.
- Core features
- If you do not want the report to be transcluded on the Wikiproject's main page, use
{{ArticleAlertbotSubscription|display=none}}. However, remember to give a link to the alert page if you decide to not display the alerts. - If your Wikiproject's banner name is not the same as your Wikiproject's name (for example if {{WPTulips}} is used to mark the Wikiproject Tulips article rather than {{WikiProject Tulips}}), then use
{{ArticleAlertbotSubscription|banner=WPTulips}}) instead. - If you are subscribing a Taskforce, say the Red Tulips Taskforce of WikiProject Tulips, then use
{{ArticleAlertbotSubscription|wgcat=Red Tulips articles}}. (This supposes that the task force articles, or rather their talk pages, are contained in Category:Red Tulips articles.) - By default all workflows are covered, but you can choose to exclude some workflows if you wish. See Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing for how.
- By default Article Alerts display what happened in the last 14 days. If you want X days of coverage, place
{{ArticleAlertbotSubscription|archivetime=X}}. - Other options are available. See Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing for more information.
- Caveats
- Put the subscription template onto your main page, not a transcluded subpage, otherwise this will cause problems. If you want to display Article Alerts on a subpage, use transclusions instead.
- Do not transclude the Article Alerts into your project banner, otherwise this pollutes many "What links here" lists. Instead link to your WikiProject's Article Alerts page.
News Request
- If something is happening that you think WikiProjects should know about, then let us know and we'll include it in the articles.
Bug reports
- Please report bugs, missed articles, and any other mishaps on the bug report page. Don't think someone else will do it, because that someone else might think you'll do it, and then neither of you will have reported the bug. It is also possible that the error is specific to your project, so you might be the only one to have seen this error.
Feature requests
- Have an idea that you think would improve the reports? Share it with us, and we'll see what we can do about it.
Feedback and questions
- Having troubles setting up Article alerts? Leave a message on our talk page, and we'll try to help as best we can.
- Think Article Alerts is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Think it sucks because it doesn't actually cover Featured deletions? Let us know.
Tips and tricks
- Remember to watch your project's Article Alerts pages.
- Did you know that you can monitor your project's Article Alerts using RSS and Atom feeds? Go on your project's /Article alerts history page, and there should be a "
RSS Atom" in your toolbox located on the left of the page. - You can incorporate Article Alerts in navboxes for the users of your WikiProjects (see {{Physics Member Navbox}} for example).
- If a related WikiProjects is also subscribed to Article Alerts you can transclude their report on your Project's homepage, and monitor their articles too.
- Request a bot to place your WikiProject's banner on the articles located in categories relevant to your wikiproject. You will probably end up with some unrelated pages, but at least you've extended Article Alerts to cover many articles you might have missed.
- AlexNewArtBot is a bot which produces a list of recently created articles that could be in your project's scope. Going through the list to do some tagging will ensure that ArticleAlertbot picks up these articles as well.
- Consider subscribing to B. Wolterding's cleanup listing to be notified of articles that need cleanup (covers cleanup tags (such as {{expert}}, {{wikify}}, {{reference}}, etc).
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