Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Automation

message: About 800+ articles - I did this Friday plange 23:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:United States military biographical stubs]]

message: I'd already set aside today to rip through those and I see it here as a task. Is it okay to assign myself? plange 23:04, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, self-assignments are probably the best way to go with this; we're probably not going to have much luck forcing people to work on tasks they don't want to do ;-) Kirill Lokshin 23:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Sure, just edit the table so everyone knows it :) And move it to done section once it's done :) Thanks for your help! :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 23:27, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ACW stubs

message: are there no stub categories for this? plange 02:06, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently not, at least not official ones; the list I put up is everything that's up on the main list of approved stub types. Kirill Lokshin 02:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Revolution 

message: Warning: it would seem the current version of AWB has a bug blanking talk pages. It was reported, but take double care when tagging articles :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 11:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just corrected, the version 3.0.2.5 fixes it. Yay to Bluemoose! :) -- Grafikm (AutoGRAF) 12:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AWB bug report 

message: Could you keep track on stubs concerning military history in the new article page, perhaps with the use of keywords? This way we could be enabled to run a basic review process on them to avoid the creation of dubious content. We discuss this project here: Stub review Wandalstouring 17:20, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And not only stubs, for that matter.  What would be really useful is some sort of script or bot which could parse the day's list of new pages for a selection of keywords (e.g. "battle", "war", "regiment", "siege", "division", etc.) and dump the resulting list of articles onto the new article subpage for inspection.  Kirill Lokshin 18:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That doesn't sound too difficult. When I've finished my current todo list I'm gonna take a break from programming my plugin for a while, but I have thought about making version 2.0 into a "proper" bot which can find tasks to do and build it's own lists without the operator feeding it a list of articles as currently happens. I don't see any reason why this feature couldn't be added (but you'd have to remind me, and - repeat - not until I start talking about the next version :)) --kingboyk 09:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub search 

message: a bot could perhaps help us to maintain the requested articles page. if an requested article is found by the bot, it delets the request from the list.
Perhaps we could also apply this to the image requests. My proposal is to run it like the peer reviews, with a small template on the spot in the article where the image should be or below the article and above its categories. Wandalstouring 10:10, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maintainance of the request page 

message: Going through some of the possible tagging routes, I've discovered an unfortunate issue.  Consider, for example, :Category:Wars involving the United States; one would expect that everything in it would be a military-related topic.  In reality, however, it contains a number of single-topic sub-categories (e.g. :Category:World War II) that contain a huge number of false positives.
The immediate effect of this is that automated tagging from high-level categories is out, except for a few limited cases.  In the long run, we'll probably need to construct an explicit tree of sub-categories and verify each for tagging one-by-one. Kirill Lokshin 04:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major issues