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FA Bot question
Not sure whitelist is working: question here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- Counter bot seems to have stalled again - didn't run this hour (FA count should now be 1217 + 5). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Daily-article-l
I have a request for your scripting talents. user:Frazzydee and I current run daily-article-l (which you can get to by clicking 'by email' on the main page). It's generated using a script (which Faraaz runs manually), and then he pastes the results into his email client, sends the email, and then approves it. I would prefer to fully automate the process. We considered doing this originally when Kate set it up, but the templates were not protected then (leading us to worry about a well timed vandalism). This no longer being the case, I would like to fully automate it. Would you be willing to help us do this? Raul654 23:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for considering helping us with this. One problem that may arise is that changes in the main page can often cause undesired results in the script's output; for example, the script has been appending "(more...)" to the end of all featured article descriptions since this text was added in to the FA descriptions, and it has not been outputting the selected anniversaries since the format was changed slightly by adding an extra line of text at the top.
- Unless there is some way to safeguard against any changes made to the main page, I think it would be best for the script to automatically generate and send emails, but not approve it in mailman. This would ensure that a human checks over the emails first (it would only take a few seconds). -Frazzydee|✍ 04:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help- it's much appreciated. I'm not sure what you have access to now; do you have the source code for the original Mkfamail script that Kate created? If not, I can email that to you with a list of its problems right now.
- Currently, the script generates the email text, and I copy & paste its output to my email client. I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement a system where the emails were also sent automatically (I'm on linux, so possibly a shell script?), but if it's too difficult a task then I'm fine with sticking to the old method. Thanks again for your help. -Frazzydee|✍ 03:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)