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Coding question

Mike, sir, I need your help if you can. In each of the 15 good article topic pages, we now call template Wikipedia:Good articles/GA topic header, per a discussion. It looks fine when any of the topic pages are called directly, like Wikipedia:Good articles/Agriculture, food and drink, but when called by Wikipedia:Good articles/all or Wikipedia:Good articles/all2 we don't want to call the new template. Look at those last two pages now and you'll see what I mean; we don't want to show the new template repeatedly like that. Some sort of conditional call? Thanks for any help. Prhartcom (talk) 02:53, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not expert on transclusion, but wouldn't WP:SELTRANS be what you need? I can have another look, maybe tomorrow, if you don't find what you're looking for there, but I'm traveling and might be slow to respond for a few days. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 06:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for John W. Campbell

John W. Campbell has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 13:33, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

@Mike Christie Hope you are doing well. I could not find the updated user statistics on the FAC Stats page. Are you still working on it, or will you publish it along with the July 2024 FAC reviewing and nominations stats? Looking forward to your response. Regards MSincccc (talk) 16:17, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Someone else is doing the stats this month, and they expect to be done by Wednesday; once they're done I should be able to post them, probably Thursday. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:19, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which languages did you use while creating the bot? I am interested in computer programming;hence I would like to know. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 16:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's written in Python -- there's a link to the source code on the bot's user page. I think it might be slightly out of date but only by a line or two. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:36, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you do it for the Wikimedia foundation or on your own? Is it beneficial for a user who creates a bot which can be used by all registered members of the community? Looking forward to your response. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 17:16, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did it with no involvement from anyone else, just because the problem interested me. Not sure what you're asking -- are you thinking about writing a bot? It's quite hard to come up with something useful a bot could do that a bot isn't already doing. In my case I was mostly replacing the functionality of an existing bot, so I didn't need to come up with a new idea. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:20, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Battle Birds for TFA

Hi Mike. Battle Birds has been tentatively scheduled as a TFA. Would you care to write a draft blurb, or should I have my thumb fingered way with it? Gog the Mild (talk) 18:33, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to have crack at it, but it's such a short article the lead is only 937 characters already. Will the lead work as the blurb with no edits? I don't see anything obviously unsuitable. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:02, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't counted characters, but that is pretty much what I planned to do. Let's run with that then. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:21, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Battle Birds

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 4 September 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/September 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 18:32, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]