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| Issues by topic area |
| Articles (main namespace) |
| Biographies | (watch) | {{rfctag|bio}} |
| Economy, trade, and companies | (watch) | {{rfctag|econ}} |
| History and geography | (watch) | {{rfctag|hist}} |
| Language and linguistics | (watch) | {{rfctag|lang}} |
| Maths, science, and technology | (watch) | {{rfctag|sci}} |
| Art, architecture, literature, and media | (watch) | {{rfctag|media}} |
| Politics, government, and law | (watch) | {{rfctag|pol}} |
| Religion and philosophy | (watch) | {{rfctag|reli}} |
| Society, sports, and culture | (watch) | {{rfctag|soc}} |
| Non-article pages |
| Wikipedia style and naming | (watch) | {{rfctag|style}} |
| Wikipedia policies and guidelines | (watch) | {{rfctag|policy}} |
| WikiProjects and collaborations | (watch) | {{rfctag|proj}} |
| Unsorted |
| Unsorted RFCs | (watch) | |
The point of this bot used to be to maintain a template known at {{wider attention list}}, however it has taken on the bigger and nobler job of automating the several WP:RFC lists, as well as the Wikipedia:Requested moves list.
The RFC lists (see right) are currently managed by rfcbot.php, which was written by harej and is available under the GNU General Public License.
For more information, including instructions on how to use it, see Wikipedia:Requests for comment.
The bot used to run on discussionbot.py, which is based on the Python Wikipedia framework and was coded mostly by User:Betacommand, with highly important bug fixes by User:Gmaxwell and text specification, minor updates, and whining by User:Harej. Additionally, Ned Scott has assisted with the bot's implementation on the website. The code is available on Botwiki under the MIT license.
[edit] Wikipedia:Coordination
The RFC and noticeboard listings of Wikipedia:Coordination are updated every 15 minutes past the hour by coordination.php. The requested move listing is updated during requestedmoves.php's operation.
[edit] Miscellany for deletion
Discussions which have been closed for at least 24 hours are automatically archived by the bot. Unlike the above scripts, mfdarchiver.php is not designed to overwrite the entire page. Instead, the entire page is initially loaded into a variable, where regular expressions are use to pick out which parts to change.
[edit] Feature requests
If you would like the bot to do something different, or would like to do something new, please state below.
