Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-02-23/Article Alerts
An automated article monitoring system for WikiProjects
Increasing participation in Wikipedia's various reviewing processes, such as peer reviews, Good article nominations, and Articles for deletion, has always been a concern for the Wikipedia community. This is especially true when it comes to processes such as Proposed deletions, where low-traffic articles can be deleted simply because no one is aware that they have been proposed. Valuable time is spent monitoring process pages, when it could instead be spent on improving and reviewing articles. This situation inspired three editors, Headbomb, B. Wolterding, and Legoktm, to develop a tool designed to increase awareness of what is going on in the various reviewing processes of Wikipedia: Article Alerts.
Article Alerts is a fully automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles tagged by their banner enter a workflow such as Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, and Peer review (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report is given at the end of this article (from WikiProject Physics).
The alert system was originally suggested in mid-July 2008[1] and ArticleAlertbot was subsequently coded by B. Wolterding.[2] Since the bot runs on the tool server, and that B. Wolterding did not wish to disclose personal information required to operate a bot on the tool server,[3] Legoktm volunteered himself to be the bot operator.[4] The bot has been fully-operational since late-October 2008.[5] At the time of writing, about 65 WikiProjects and Taskforces, out of more than a thousand,[note 1] were subscribed to Article Alerts (list of current subscribers), generating very positive feedback.[6][7] Although the original idea was to help WikiProjects keep track of their articles in the wikijungle,[1] it will be interesting to see if this tool increases the participation in the various reviewing processes.[note 2]
It is the hope of the maintainers of Article Alerts that all active WikiProjects be subscribed to Article Alerts by the end of 2009.[note 3] Those interested in setting up Article Alerts for their WikiProject or Taskforce can visit Wikipedia:Article alerts#Subscribing for instructions.
Articles for deletion
- 12 May 2024 – Quantum weirdness (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed as keep by ComplexRational (t · c) on 27 May 2024; see discussion (12 participants; relisted)
- 30 Apr 2024 – Index of statistical mechanics articles (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Johnjbarton (t · c) was closed as merge by Smalljim (t · c) on 08 May 2024; see discussion (23 participants)
- 24 Apr 2024 – Alexey Okulov (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ruslik0 (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 01 May 2024; see discussion (7 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 30 May 2024 – Theoretical and experimental justification for the Schrödinger equation (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Johnjbarton (t · c) was deleted
- 15 May 2024 – Mimicry of spin-liquid-by-disorder (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by 67.198.37.16 (t · c) was deleted
Categories for discussion
- 11 Jun 2024 – Category:Kurdish physicists (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 25 Apr 2024 – Quantum realm (talk · edit · hist) →Quantum mechanics RfDed by Utopes (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 17 May 2024 – Virgo interferometer (talk · edit · hist) FA nominated by Thuiop (t · c) was not promoted; see discussion
Good article nominees
- 19 Jun 2024 – Margaret Eliza Maltby (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Physhist (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Apr 2024 – Carl Friedrich Gauss (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Dioskorides (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Apr 2024 – Ice (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by InformationToKnowledge (t · c) was promoted by Chiswick Chap (t · c), see discussion
- 23 Apr 2024 – Heraclitus (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by MisterCake (t · c) was not promoted by Patrick Welsh (t · c), see discussion
Featured article reviews
- 24 May 2024 – Sun (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by 750h+ (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jan 2024 – Emmy Noether (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 02 May 2024 – Nuclear clock (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by 97.102.205.224 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 06 Jun 2024 – Clapeyron's theorem (elasticity) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Clapeyron's theorem by Jlwoodwa (t · c); see discussion
- 15 May 2024 – Diabatic (talk · edit · hist) move request to Diabatic representation by The Anome (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 15 May 2024 – Ti-sapphire laser (talk · edit · hist) move request to Titanium-sapphire laser by JohnCWiesenthal (t · c) was moved to Titanium-sapphire laser (talk · edit · hist) by Ahecht (t · c) on 22 May 2024; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 17 May 2024 – Super radiant emission (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to superradiance by 67.198.37.16 (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Mar 2024 – Ekman spiral (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ekman layer by 67.198.37.16 (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Mar 2024 – Physical geodesy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Geodesy by GeogSage (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Mar 2024 – Delta-v (physics) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Delta-v by Jlwoodwa (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Feb 2024 – Graphical timeline of the universe (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jan 2024 – Poincaré map (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Poincaré plot by 46.211.114.171 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Dec 2023 – Biefeld–Brown effect (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Electrogravitics by Thumperward (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Nov 2023 – Timeline of particle physics (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics by ReyHahn (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jun 2024 – Ritz method (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Rayleigh–Ritz method by MinervaKizyna (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 22 May 2024 – Stationary-action principle (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Action principles by Johnjbarton (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be split
- 31 Mar 2023 – Shear flow (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Itafe (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Feb 2023 – Enhanced geothermal system (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Garthgirl8888 (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Mar 2022 – Neutron radiation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
- 02 May 2021 – Willebrord Snellius (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Mar 2021 – Nutation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Aug 2020 – History of the metre (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 10 Jun 2024 – Draft:Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ChekhovsGunman (t · c)
- 07 Jun 2024 – Draft:Timothy Healey (mathematician) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mathbio16 (t · c)
- 29 May 2024 – Draft:Fractional Calculus of Sets (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Calfracsets (t · c)
- 29 May 2024 – Draft:Spanish Society on Gravitation and General Relativity (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lfdezjambrina (t · c)
- 26 May 2024 – Draft:Constructal Law (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ArimYusuke (t · c)
- 23 May 2024 – Draft:Nion Company (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Niashervin (t · c)
- 23 May 2024 – Draft:Smith Color System (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Senami Zamba (t · c)
- 22 May 2024 – Draft:Tavis-Cummings model (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by IAWGunther (t · c)
- 21 May 2024 – Draft:Point Vortices (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jamontaldi (t · c)
- 02 May 2024 – Draft:Applied Physics, Inc. (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Washington Office (t · c)
- (39 more...)
Notes
- ^ About 1,500 Projects and Taskforces are listed at the W.P 1.0 Editorial Team Index, but not all of them are active.
- ^ See the 16 February 2009 article by Dr pda for a report on the participation levels of reviewing processes such as Featured and Good article nominations and peer review.
- ^ First expressed here by the author of this Signpost article.
References
- ^ a b Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 22#Bot for WikiProject News (WPNBot?)
- ^ Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ArticleAlertbot
- ^ Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Archive 1#finding "who nominated" (bottom of section)
- ^ User talk:Legoktm/September 2008#Alert bot
- ^ Wikipedia talk:Article alerts/Archive 1#Open for subscriptions
- ^ "I recently discovered this service, and fell in love with it immediately." – G.A.S
- ^ "Wow!!!!!!!!!!!! That looks great." – TonyTheTiger, about the Article Alerts for WikiProject Chicago
Discuss this story
Comment by Ottawahitech
I know this page is ancient, but I am hoping some still visit it because this information is priceless in my opinion. Ottawahitech (talk) 01:09, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Setting up alerts for a task-force
I would like to set up alerts for WikiProject Ottawa which I think is a task-force of wikiProject Canada, Can anyone advise me how to do it? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 01:11, 20 December 2015 (UTC)please ping me[reply]
article alert on holiday?
I know many volunteers are too busy this time of year to contriibute, but is ArticleAlertbot also on holiday? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 19:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC)please ping me[reply]
Can ArticleAlertbot be run more than once a day?
Just wondering if ArticleAlertbot can run more often than at 9UTC once a day because many articles in the various deletion queues are not tagged with relevant wikiproject banners. Once someone tags the talk-page it takes up to 24 hours before the article shows up in article alerts for the wikiprojcect AND many projects still do not have article alerts set up properly which may delay things even further. Most XfDs run for only 7 days, so prompt alerts are vitally important. Ottawahitech (talk)please ping me