WikiApiary talk:Operations/2013/February

Bot log
The revamp of the bots that I'm working on made some good progress. Notably, the bots now log to ApiaryDB and there is now a page at Bot log that uses Extension:External Data to show recent information on the wiki. I suspect this will be a huge win for operators. Thingles (talk) 04:34, 2 February 2013 (UTC)


 * It's worth emphasizing that this is only for the new version of the bot. The current one running does not log here, so until I get the new one doing the day-to-day work this will just show my debug runs. Thingles (talk) 04:42, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Skin:Main Page
Today I put in an entire new namespace for Skins, along with Form:Skin, Template:Skin and other miscellaneous stuff to track skins. Check out the Category:Skin to see. Some unique things to take note of. Skins can have related extensions associated with them (see Skin:Vector). Also, skins can indicate that they were derived from another skin (see Skin:Vectorata). Thingles (talk) 04:36, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Transcluding to get refresh faster
I made a change today to Template:Website to purposefully transclude the bot generated subpages for a Web site even when they don't exist. I'm hiding them in a  so the user can't see, but MediaWiki sees it and properly notes that the page is using a red link template. The new version of Bumble Bee will pull these pages on demand, instead of just once a day. Doing this transclusion will hopefully result in a faster refresh when the pages are updated on demand from the bot. Thingles (talk) 04:41, 2 February 2013 (UTC)