User:AlexNewArtBot

The bot looks at New Articles and puts relevant articles into the New Articles lists of Portals and Projects. The goal is to help editors find new articles related to their areas of interest.

This user account is a bot operated by Alex Bakharev (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot was previously approved but has since been retired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

If you are interested in patrolling new pages, add importScript( "User:Fred Gandt/getUnpatrolledOfAlexNewArtBotResultsPages.js" ); to your account's common.js file before reading these lists. Requires the user to have the patrol right.

The script will create buttons on these pages, which on use will begin relevant searches to determine which new pages listed are still unpatrolled, and highlight those references/page-links.

All links in the page will open by default in a new tab or window, and visited pages will have the normal [Mark page as patrolled] option at the bottom right.

The bot is superseded by InceptionBot run by User:Bamyers99. InceptionBot still uses this page.

The bot currently supports:

Regional

Africa

Americas

Canada

Latin America

United States

California

Asia

Wikipedia:WikiProject South Asia (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Afghanistan (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahrain/New articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Bhutan (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Brunei (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Myanmar (Burma) (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject China/New articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Hong Kong/New articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:SGpedians' notice board (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Kazakhstan (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cambodia/New articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Malaysia (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Nepal (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwan (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Philippines (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Punjab (Search result, Log, Rules) (Suspended)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka/New article announcements (Search result, Log, Rules)

Middle East

Southeastern Europe

Quality and suitability evaluation

"Bad" article list (Search result, Log, Rules)
"Good" article list (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:Words to avoid (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Etymology (Search result, Log, Rules)
pages with 3 interwikis or more (Search result, Log, Rules)
Articles possibly listing Brett Stewart's accuser - delete and oversight Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography (Search result, Log, Rules)

Humanities

Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy (Search result, Log, Rules)
Portal:Literature (Search result, Log, Rules)
Law articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing (Search result, Log, Rules)

Physical sciences

Portal:Chemistry (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions (Search result, Log,Rules)
Portal:Energy (Search result,Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy (fossil fuels) (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy (nuclear) (Search result,Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment (Search result,Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Meteorology (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics (Search result, Log, Rules)
Hydrology (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Caves (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Glaciers (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Rocks and minerals (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Glass (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Fluid dynamics (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Solar System (Search result, Log, Rules)

Biology and medicine

Wikipedia:WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/ant task force (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Insects/Hymenoptera task force (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian biota (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Arthropods (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Bivalves (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishes (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lepidoptera (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Paleontology (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Viruses (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Genetics (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptozoology (Search result, Log, Rules) (Suspended)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Forestry (Search result, Log, Rules)
Portal:Trauma & Orthopaedics (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs (Search result, Log, Rules)
Any species (Search result, Log, Rules)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Architecture and engineering

Sports and games

History

Wikipedia:WikiProject World War I (Search result, Log, Rules)
WP:WWII (Search result, Log, Rules)
Portal:Cold War (Search result, Log, Rules)
Nazi Germany (Search result, Log, Rules)
13th century (Search result, Log, Rules)
14th century (Search result, Log, Rules)
15th century (Search result, Log, Rules)
16th century (Search result, Log, Rules)
17th century (Search result, Log, Rules)
18th century (Search result, Log, Rules)
19th century (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome (Search result, Log, Rules)
Ancient Near East (Search result, Log, Rules)
Middle Ages (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/New articles(Search result,Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums(Search result,Log, Rules)
Prehistory (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottoman Empire (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's history (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement/New articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Phoenicia (Search result, Log, Rules)

Religion

Wikipedia:WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Catholicism (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahá'í Faith (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian music (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Methodism work group (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Sufism (Search result, Log, Rules)

Social sciences

Miscellaneous

Portal:Gardening (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Math (Search result, Log, Rules)
WP:EDUCATION (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges (Search result, Log, Rules)
Portal:Cooking (Search result, Log, Rules)
Rules testing (Search result, Log, Rules) (Suspended)
Wikipedia:New articles (Aircraft) (Search result, Log, Rules)
Academic links (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:Wikiproject LGBT (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography/New articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Logic (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Organizations (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Libertarianism (Search result, Log, Rules)
Portal:U.S. Roads (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/New articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports/New articles (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Unionism in Ireland (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Airlines (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Statistics (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Beauty Pageants (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/Anarchism (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Typography (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Children (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Pornography (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Furry (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality (Search result, Log, Rules)
Portal:Communism (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Java (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Librarians (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Oxford (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (Search result, Log, Rules) (suspended)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography (Search result, Log, Rules) (Suspended)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Children's literature (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Apple Inc. (Search result, Log, Rules)
Portal:Speculative fiction (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Microsoft (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Dacia (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Death (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Watches (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Philately (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Autism (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women scientists (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cannabis (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Nudity (Search result, Log, Rules)
Missing Living People category (Search result, Log, Rules)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Royalty and Nobility (Search result, Log, Rules)

For announcements of new feeds use {{subst:User:AlexNewArtBot/Announcement|key}}
Master configuration

When the bot runs, it scores a new article using the rules and if the score matches or exceeds the threshold, the article is added to the top of the new article list for a Portal/WikiProject. Articles already on a new article list are removed 14 days after the creation date. Articles moved into the Main/Draft namespace from another namespace will be reported as new articles. The new pages feed is checked in addition to the recent changes feed. Articles tagged with "mw-removed-redirect" are also checked.

The following namespaces are scanned for new articles/pages: Main (Article), Draft, Category, Template. New non-Main namespace articles/pages will only be displayed when transcluded into the Wikipedia and User namespaces. They will not be displayed when transcluded into other namespaces such as Portal. New non-Main namespace articles/pages can be suppressed from displaying when transcluded into the Wikipedia namespace by using the SuppressNS option in the rule page. See 'Create the rules' below.

The bot does not create an archive of previous new articles. The history for a SearchResult page can be used to view previous results. Viewing every 14th history item will yield the desired result. Example: JapanSearchResult. Click on the date for a history item to view the page asof that date.

Yes, you can add new feeds for the bot yourself. Here I describe how to do it. It is a little bit tricky, so if you are unsure what you are doing, ask the bot's owner.

Steps to create bot feed:

Select a name for the new feed

The name should not be used for any other feeds. It should not contain spaces and other non-letter symbols. It should be disambigous. E.G. UK is not good; is it Ukraine or United Kingdom? It should be reasonably short and you should be able to spell it uniformly throughout a few steps. E.g. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is not a good name.

Announce the new feed on this page

Put the template {{Subst:User:AlexNewArtBot/NewFeed|FeedName|Portal Name}} in the appropriate subsection of the #Currently supported section of this page. Here the FeedName stands for the name you have selected and the Portal Name is the name of a Portal page with the feed (Portal:### or Wikipedia:WikiProject ###). The feed would create redlinks for the Rules, Search Results and Log of the new feed. The Portal Name will be linked automatically, so there is no need to put it in square brackets.

Create the rules

Well this is the most tricky part: You have to provide some rules for the bot. Each rule has some numerical value (might be negative). All the values from the rules applicable to the article are added together to get a score. If a rule matches the lead of the article the points for the rule are doubled. If the final score is at least as much as the threshold, then the article is in.

All rules must follow the requirements of PHP regular expressions.

Both threshold and rules are written in the rules page. One line per rule (and one line per threshold).

Threshold is specified as

@@number@@ where the number is the threshold (duh). If omitted the default threshold is 10 points. E.g.

@@14@@

means 14 points threshold

Rules has format:

Points /Pattern that we should have/ , /Inhibitor1/ , /Inhibitor2/ , /Inhibitor3/ ...

The Points is the number of points for the rule, negative numbers are allowed. If omitted than by default every rule costs 10 points. Do not forget that if the lead is matched points are doubled. Pattern that we should have is a Regular expression as in ~~Perl~~ PHP that should be matched in the text of an article so the rule is counted. The inhibitors are the patterns that "inhibit" the rule. Making it inactive even if the Pattern that we should have is matched. E.g when creating the rules for the Russia related articles, I want to include Saint Petersburg - the second largest city in Russia. On the other hand many American articles mention St. Petersburg, Florida and other American cities. Thus, I could want to decrease the value of the rule and inhibit it completely if Florida mentioned:

7 /Petersburg/ , /Florida/

In general the names of a country or of its capital are often mentioned in unrelated articles (e.g. somebody traveled there, etc.) But lead rarely mentions unrelated articles, thus usually we would want to have the name of the country to be below the threshold but above the half-threshold.

Categories are usually friends of the bot (if only all the new article writers used them!) so they deserve the cost above the threshold.

Note that \W (uppercase only) is needed to mark a word boundary. Without this by default a rule can match any part of a word.

The following symbols {}[]()^$.|*+?\ must be preceded by \ to be taken literally. Otherwise they have special functions: * - wildcard, x? - optionality of the preceding symbol or bracketed string, (xy) - scope marking (e.g. for the purpose of | or ?), (x|y) or [xy] - alternatives, etc.

The pattern matches are case-insensitive (the letter case of the pattern and the article text does not matter). To turn off case-insensitivity, use (?-i:<text to match>) ie. /\W(?-i:L)eena\W/ to only match Leena with an uppercase L.

For other inspirations look in the rules for similar newsfeeds.

There are a few magical words in the rule file:

$USER substitutes into the user name
$SIZE>value / $SIZE < value : if the pattern true then it is matched.
$TITLE:pattern - if the pattern is found in the page title then it is matched. Example: /$TITLE:nature p?reserve/
$LEAD:pattern - if the pattern is found in the lead then it is matched. Example: /$LEAD:\W(she|her|he|his)\W/
$ORES:topic > value - if ORES topics prediction is greater than the value then it is matched. Example: /$ORES:STEM.Medicine > 0.5/
$CURRENTYEAR or $CURRENTYEAR-number of years to subtract: Example: /$CURRENTYEAR-1: births/
$CURRENTDECADE or $CURRENTDECADE-number of decades to subtract: Example: /$CURRENTDECADE-1:s births/
$$FOO$$ matches {{FOO.*?}}
\p{Is...} matches a character in ... alphabet. Ex. \p{IsGreek} List of Alphabets
##SuppressNS=Category|Template## Suppress new non-Main namespace articles/pages from displaying when transcluded into the Wikipedia namespace. The available options are Category, Draft, Template. Multiple values are separated with a |.

Click the [show] link to the right to display the ORES topics that are available.

Culture.Biography.Biography*
Culture.Biography.Women
Culture.Food and drink
Culture.Internet culture
Culture.Linguistics
Culture.Literature
Culture.Media.Books
Culture.Media.Entertainment
Culture.Media.Films
Culture.Media.Media*
Culture.Media.Music
Culture.Media.Radio
Culture.Media.Software
Culture.Media.Television
Culture.Media.Video games
Culture.Performing arts
Culture.Philosophy and religion
Culture.Sports
Culture.Visual arts.Architecture
Culture.Visual arts.Comics and Anime
Culture.Visual arts.Fashion
Culture.Visual arts.Visual arts*
Geography.Geographical
Geography.Regions.Africa.Africa*
Geography.Regions.Africa.Central Africa
Geography.Regions.Africa.Eastern Africa
Geography.Regions.Africa.Northern Africa
Geography.Regions.Africa.Southern Africa
Geography.Regions.Africa.Western Africa
Geography.Regions.Americas.Central America
Geography.Regions.Americas.North America
Geography.Regions.Americas.South America
Geography.Regions.Asia.Asia*
Geography.Regions.Asia.Central Asia
Geography.Regions.Asia.East Asia
Geography.Regions.Asia.North Asia
Geography.Regions.Asia.South Asia
Geography.Regions.Asia.Southeast Asia
Geography.Regions.Asia.West Asia
Geography.Regions.Europe.Eastern Europe
Geography.Regions.Europe.Europe*
Geography.Regions.Europe.Northern Europe
Geography.Regions.Europe.Southern Europe
Geography.Regions.Europe.Western Europe
Geography.Regions.Oceania
History and Society.Business and economics
History and Society.Education
History and Society.History
History and Society.Military and warfare
History and Society.Politics and government
History and Society.Society
History and Society.Transportation
STEM.Biology
STEM.Chemistry
STEM.Chemistry
STEM.Earth and environment
STEM.Engineering
STEM.Libraries & Information
STEM.Mathematics
STEM.Medicine & Health
STEM.Physics
STEM.STEM*
STEM.Space
STEM.Technology

List derived from ores query.

Test the rules

Use the page at rule test to test the rules after they have been saved. This will check for rule errors. A wiki page name can also be entered to test the scoring.

Inform the bot about the new job for it

Put into User:AlexNewArtBot/Master a new line with the name of the newsfeed (the same as the name of the rules file after the /). And that is all. The next time the bot works it will work on your feed.

Add the feed to a Portal/WikiProject

Add {{User:AlexNewArtBot/<insert rulename>SearchResult}} to the new articles section of a Portal/WikiProject. Example: {{User:AlexNewArtBot/RussiaSearchResult}}

To display as a collapsed list use the following:

{{show
|Bot detected new articles
|
{{User:AlexNewArtBot/RussiaSearchResult}}
}}

For a scrolling list use the following:

{{scrolling window|link=User:AlexNewArtBot/RussiaSearchResult|height=300px|title=New articles}}

The display of Categories, Drafts and Templates can be customized by each user. This is done via CSS in the user wikipedia skin. See Help:User style for more information.

Copy and paste one of the following boxes of CSS code into the wikipedia skin. These can be customized to change the colors or not hide all or not indent all. .IncBotC = new Categories, .IncBotD = new Drafts, .IncBotT = new Templates.

Hide all

CSS code

/* Hide InceptionBot new Categories, Drafts and Templates */
.IncBotC, .IncBotD, .IncBotT {
    display: none;
}

Indent all

CSS code

/* Indent InceptionBot new Categories, Drafts and Templates */
.IncBotC, .IncBotD, .IncBotT {
    padding-left: 1em;
}

Sample

New article
Category:New category
Draft:Draft article
Template:New template

Highlight each namespace

CSS code

/* Highlight InceptionBot new Categories, Drafts and Templates */
.IncBotC { /* Categories */
    background-color: #cff;
}
.IncBotD { /* Drafts */
    background-color: #fcf;
}
.IncBotT { /* Templates */
    background-color: #cf6;
}

Sample

New article
Category:New category
Draft:Draft article
Template:New template

Wikipedia:New articles by topic

Regional

Africa

Americas

Canada

Latin America

United States

California

Asia

Middle East

India

Europe

United Kingdom

Southeastern Europe

Quality and suitability evaluation

Humanities

Physical sciences

Biology and medicine

Arts, entertainment, and media

Architecture and engineering

Sports and games

History

Religion

Social sciences

Miscellaneous

Select a name for the new feed

Announce the new feed on this page

Create the rules

Test the rules

Inform the bot about the new job for it

Add the feed to a Portal/WikiProject

Regional

Africa

Americas

Canada

Latin America

United States

California

Asia

Middle East

India

Europe

United Kingdom

Southeastern Europe

Quality and suitability evaluation

Humanities

Physical sciences

Biology and medicine

Arts, entertainment, and media

Architecture and engineering

Sports and games

History

Religion

Social sciences

Miscellaneous

Select a name for the new feed

Announce the new feed on this page

Create the rules

Test the rules

Inform the bot about the new job for it

Add the feed to a Portal/WikiProject

Currently supported

Process overview

Viewing previous new article results

How to add feeds to the new article bot

List display personalization

See also