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Operator: SD0001 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 16:02, Tuesday, September 1, 2020 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Node.js

Source code available: GitHub

Function overview: Notify significant contributors to AfD nomination of article

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 10 - 20 a day (guess)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Whenever an AfD is opened, this bot will lookup the significant contributors to the article using the WikiWho API (which also powers the Xtools authorship stats, see for example authorship stats for Albert Einstein). The API considers the amount to text added which is present in the current version of the article.

A customised version of ((Afd notice)) will be sent to editors who contributed more than 20% to the article and who weren't already notified. Editors can choose to opt out using a centralised exclusion page. Editors can also choose to specify the percentage authorship above which they'd like to be notified (if different from the 20% default). Editors with ((nobots)) on their talk page or who are blocked for more than 7 days or globally locked will not be notified.

Discussion[edit]

• Would I be correct in likening this to the "user version" of WP:Article alerts? Primefac (talk) 19:02, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not really. AAlerts uses pre-set configs (on the basis of categories/wikiproject tags present) to determine which projects to notify. It covers a lot of things than just AfDs, and it doesn't post notifications to user talk pages. – SD0001 (talk) 05:47, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Support, I'd like to be notified for those AFDS, Atlantic306 (talk) 00:19, 2 September 2020 (UTC)t[reply]
• Don't know anything about bots, but I know a good bit about AFD, and this seems like a Very Good Idea to me. If I extensively work on an article, I'd want to know that it's nominated for AFD. Best, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:46, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Like — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 21:32, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 21:46, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • 30 edits made from yesterday's AfDs (excluding relisted ones). Run report is available here. Will wait for a day before continuing. I have set up the page for exclusions etc at user:SDZeroBot/AfD notifier. – SD0001 (talk) 18:47, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Trial complete. edits notes:
  • there's one issue of notification being made even when they were already notified (reported on talk page) which I'm yet to look into.
  • To avoid edits using refill, citation bot, IABot, etc (which usually add a lot of bytes) from being considered as significant, I added some code so that if the editor's contribution was more than 90% to references only, notification would be skipped.
  • A notification is sent to the creator (provided they've added enough text) if they weren't notified by the nominator, so that's another advantage of the bot.

– SD0001 (talk) 08:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Given the potential for disruption, I'd like to see the "already notified" bug cleared up before approving this (as otherwise everything looks good). Primefac (talk) 15:13, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

SD0001, has that issue been definitely cleared up or would you like to send it back to trial to check? Primefac (talk) 15:08, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Primefac,  Fixed yep I found the cause: part of the regex needed escaping. – SD0001 (talk) 16:43, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Primefac (talk) 16:44, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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