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[edit] Bots on Wikinews

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These are bots that have made any page edit or logged action within 30 days:

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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).

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:

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

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