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: I think bots can currently only be run by Gijs (well, obviously also Simon as the wiki admin). Given the potential damage that may result from running a bot script, I would always ask others to review/test the bot first, and maybe run it in some kind of sandbox or sub-portal. Gijs once explained the requirements for running scripted bots to me, but I haven't yet had a real need for doing so, and I don't think "normal" wiki admins have the necessary permissions. I would agree that having some kind of article creation wizard would be kinda useful. I am still looking for a good way to unify handling for identical contents, i.e. changelog/newsletter and development announcements. But if there's anything that would be lots of work to do manually, I can help with coming up with a python bot/script to automate that (of course, we'd first of all need to agree that we want to proceed accordingly)--[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 15:15, 8 May 2014 (UTC) | : I think bots can currently only be run by Gijs (well, obviously also Simon as the wiki admin). Given the potential damage that may result from running a bot script, I would always ask others to review/test the bot first, and maybe run it in some kind of sandbox or sub-portal. Gijs once explained the requirements for running scripted bots to me, but I haven't yet had a real need for doing so, and I don't think "normal" wiki admins have the necessary permissions. I would agree that having some kind of article creation wizard would be kinda useful. I am still looking for a good way to unify handling for identical contents, i.e. changelog/newsletter and development announcements. But if there's anything that would be lots of work to do manually, I can help with coming up with a python bot/script to automate that (of course, we'd first of all need to agree that we want to proceed accordingly)--[[User:Hooray|Hooray]] ([[User talk:Hooray|talk]]) 15:15, 8 May 2014 (UTC) | ||
::: An alternative to an article creation wizard could be to pre-load a skeleton page (i.e. not a wiki template), but I do not think that would help finding a category all too much. Personally I would prefer to have neither, but perhaps there could be a link somewhere suitable to help interested users create a page using a skeleton page? | |||
::: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 19:16, 8 May 2014 (UTC) | |||
:: There is actually something easy that a bot could do right now, in fact I was just reading on bots and found a java framework (I don't know python), although not looking forward for that... so I really appreciate your offer. I'm talking about point 5.1 in the above [[#Approaching CategoryTree]], I quote them: | :: There is actually something easy that a bot could do right now, in fact I was just reading on bots and found a java framework (I don't know python), although not looking forward for that... so I really appreciate your offer. I'm talking about point 5.1 in the above [[#Approaching CategoryTree]], I quote them: | ||