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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)
• Support Maybe it could just be an rss feed of the last 5 released articles. -Pekayer11 (talk) 04:49, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support per Dendodge –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:40, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
• Comment I've talked to he is who is god of mobile Wikipedia. I asked about getting a Wikinews mobile and he says "This is definitely on the TODO list!". It seems we do get some love, they're just not allowed to be public about that love for Wikinews. (No one can 'officially' support the red headed step child ^_^ ) --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 16:41, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support - While I like SGN's news, we can bodge our own version to get something running while we wait. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 14:59, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support - Good idea! Benny the mascot (talk) 03:26, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support the idea of a mobile portal, but it must be aware of Flagged Revisions, have Editor stats, possibly even given administrator rights, and the mobile version it "expands" from dynamic page list(s) protected. I would seriously question if this would not be better served with Amgine's MediaWiki extension to produce DPL-esque XML output, and that being reprocessed into a mobile version. You do get sick of things being held together with spit and bailing twine. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 09:00, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

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