User:Karl Dickman/Threads/06/12/29a

Mathbot's parsing of {{AircraftProject}}

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Hello, Oleg. At WT:AIR, at least one user has complained that when articles are tagged with {{AircraftProject}}, no one ever leaves a note at the comments subpage to explain their ratings. Someone suggested that a |comments= parametre would significantly increase the amount of comments that are left; I agree vehemently. If I could include my comments in the same edit that I rated an article, I would almost always leave comments.

The problem is, of course, that the Mathbot's parsing system is currently based on the assumption that comments are left on the subpage, rather than on a template parametre. If we were to implemement such a system for the comments, would you be willing to change Mathbot's code to accommodate our system?

Cheers, Karl Dickman ^talk 23:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Something like this came up before too, and the idea is good. The problem is, I don't know how to implement this efficiently. Currently, the bot goes through categories, reading info for 200 articles at once. With what you suggest, I think the bot will have to visit each page individually, and now there are 463084 of them, which is infeasable. I would suggest you post this at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index which is watched by more people, and see if there are any ideas. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)