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[edit] Wikinews Importer bot

This is attempt Number 2. I'm pasting the old request.

To set up a mobile phone version of wikinews (similar to http://en.wap.wikipedia.org ) We need a version of the main page that has no DPL's or templates. I believe using the wikinews importer bot (its the bot that syndicates our headlines to certain places on wikipedia) to copy out a DPL of latest published to a specific page (probably Main Page/Simple Main Page/mobile, or portal:Mobile). Please see also WN:WC#Wikinews_wap_.28mobile_phone.29_portal, old archived discussion on wc and bugzilla:14755. bot specifics (note: this is off the top of my head. i think its right, but remember its me saying it, so if anything is incorrect its my fault).

• Operator: w:user:Misza13
• botName: no username registered yet
• programming language: python (pywikipediabot). source
• task. Copying a DPL (like Portal:Current events/Wikipedia) to a static page
• Would probably need bot flag

Bawolff ☺☻ 20:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Are there any statistics for the use of Wikipedia both the normal format and the mobile format, assessed from mobile devices? Adambro (talk) 21:03, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Not publicly available that i am aware of. I could ask around. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

What I do know is that according to alexa, of all trafic going to something.wikipedia.org, 52% goes to en.wikipedia.org, less then (most likely much less then) 1% goes to the mobile gateway (based on how little it is advertised, that is not suprising.) Bawolff ☺☻ 21:23, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

But no mobile phones have the Alexa toolbar so less those stats exclude access through mobiles. Anonymous101 (talk) 06:44, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Good point, so we really have no idea. I would still geuss it is much much less then the normal english wikipedia though. Nonetheless I still think its useful especially considering that it really would take very little effort to maintain (bot does everything, we have to do essentially nothing). Bawolff ☺☻ 05:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Umm, I'm going to be away from computers for about a month. If this does achieve concensuss, can someone make sure:

• Appropriate pages are set up (pick the name for the page - aka Main Page/mobile)
• Notify w:user:Misza13 (see my last message as well)
• Update bugzilla:14755

So that we can get the mobile portal working. Thanks. Bawolff ☺☻ 11:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

• Last time Cirt said we should probably change the name of the bot, so we don't confuse it with its wikipedia sibiling

[edit] Votes

• Support Bawolff ☺☻ 20:45, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support—most news websites have a mobile version. I don't see why Wikinews should miss out on this growing market, and if this bot will help... Dendodge _T\^C 20:43, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support — Wikinews should probably have a mobile version of its main page. Gopher65_talk 20:45, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support Sounds good. Tempodivalse [talk] 20:53, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Millbot-VoA and Millbot-SETimes

These two bots, Millbot-SETimes (talk · contribs) and Millbot-VoA (talk · contribs), do the importing of copyleft news. I've granted them the flood flag for now, but really they should get the full bot flag. I expect this to be uncontroversial, but if there are concerns with these bots, now's the time to raise them. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 11:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] votes/comments

• Support granting both the bot flag. Tempodivalse [talk] 13:48, 2 November 2009 (UTC) Changed to Neutral. See below.
• Neutral I'm unsure if mass importing is a good thing. but what do i know. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:30, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
• Comment SGN seems to have blocked both of these bots as "broken". Tempodivalse [talk] 22:38, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

  Reason --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 22:39, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

  Yeah, that's what i suspected. I couldn't figure out why the imported news list was always so long, even after mass deletions. Tempodivalse [talk] 22:40, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

  Verily --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 22:45, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose for now. We need to figure out a better way of dealing with all these articles. Take a quick look at User:Millbot-VoA/chronology/October-2009, there are 459 articles imported. Of that I count 29 blue links. 6% article retention. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 22:45, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Pleased to note that there is now some opposition to this apart from me. Since there was little when discussed on WC I had been going to abstain and let this run. No, I don't like mass importation. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 20:29, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
• Neutral Changed from an initial support. Having copied articles manually from VOA for the last few days after the bot broke down, I've realised that it actually requires less effort than automated importing. When doing it manually, you only create an article that you want to work on, and choose a good title from the start. However, with automated importing, you have to search through long lists of stale articles to find what you want, downstyle the article title, fix the spacing bugs the bot made, etc., not to mention the large effort needed to regularly mass-delete articles that have become stale or are dupes, etc. It's quite uneconomical and inefficient. I'm no longer sure that mass importation is the best approach to copying PD articles, but I won't oppose either. Tempodivalse [talk] 20:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose - Far more efficient to simply manually copy and paste if you're going to do it at all. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] EmBOTellado (talk · contribs)

I am testing my bot putting interwikis. I am monitoring the editions. I use the pywikipediabot. --Ezarate (talk) 20:16, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] votes/comment

• Support —The preceding unsigned comment was added by bawolff (talk • contribs)
• Support Bot has made a few edits and seems to work okay. It's been flagged on large projects such as es.wikipedia, I think it's safe to grant the flag. Tempodivalse [talk] 01:39, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 12:36, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

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