Wikipedia:Did you know/Scripts and bots

Did you know?
Introduction and rules
Introduction	WP:DYK
General discussion	WT:DYK
Guidelines	WP:DYKCRIT
Reviewer instructions	WP:DYKRI
Nominations
Nominate an article	WP:DYKCNN
Awaiting approval	WP:DYKN
Approved	WP:DYKNA
April 1 hooks	WP:DYKAPRIL
Holding area	WP:SOHA
Preparation
Preps and queues	TM:DYK/Q
Prepper instructions	WP:DYKPBI
Admin instructions	WP:DYKAI
Main Page errors	WP:ERRORS
History
Statistics	WP:DYKSTATS
Archived sets	WP:DYKA
Just for fun
Monthly wraps	WP:DYKW
Awards	WP:DYKAWARDS
Userboxes	WP:DYKUBX
Hall of Fame	WP:DYK/HoF
List of users ...
... by nominations	WP:DYKNC
... by promotions	WP:DYKPC
Administrative
Scripts and bots	WP:DYKSB
On the Main Page	TM:DYK
Main Page errors	WP:ERRORS
To ping the DYK admins	{{DYK admins}}

The following is a list of user scripts, programs, and bots used in the regular maintenance and updating of DYK. These scripts and bots assist with creating, reviewing, and moving DYK nominations, as well as updating the Main Page and other important tasks.

Scripts and programs

Nominating

• User:SD0001/DYK-helper: a Morebits GUI for making DYK nominations
• Wikipedia:Did you know/Create new nomination, by SD0001: a MediawikiJS page that encompasses the same script, but in a more user-friendly environment. No installation required.

Reviewing

• Wikipedia:Prosesize, by Dr pda: gets the prose length of an article, useful for assessing articles against the length criteria
• Wikipedia:Did you know/DYKcheck, by Shubinator: provides information on the newness and length of an article, including assessing whether it has been expanded fivefold

Prep and queue work

• user:theleekycauldron/pshaw: a Morebits GUI for moving DYK nominations to prep or queue

Other maintenance

• user:theleekycauldron/DYKPC.js: updates Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of DYK promotions
• user:theleekycauldron/DYKViews: updates pages in Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics and notifies nominators when their hooks perform well

Bots

Active

Bot	Trigger	DYK task	BRfA
DYKUpdateBot (contribs · logs)	When the next DYK update is due	Updates the DYK section of the Main Page. If an error prevents the update, this bot describes the specific error as DYKUpdateBot/Errors	Link
KrinkleBot (contribs · logs)	Periodic, every 10 minutes	Protects DYK images hosted at Commons before they reach the Main Page	Link
DYKHousekeepingBot (contribs · logs)	Periodic, every 30 minutes	Updates DYK hook count	Link
	Periodic, daily	Notifies nominators of untranscluded nominations	Link
WugBot (contribs · logs)	Periodic, every 30 minutes	Moves approved nominations from T:TDYK to WP:DYKNA	Link
	Periodic, daily	Transcludes DYK nominations on article talk	Link
MusikBot (contribs · logs)	00:00 UTC	Adds new date sections at T:TDYK	Link
JL-Bot (contribs · logs)	Periodic, weekly	Updates WikiProjects with lists of DYKs that have reached the Main Page	Link
AAlertBot (contribs · logs)	Periodic, daily	Updates WikiProject article alerts with lists of open DYK nominations	Link
EnterpriseyBot (contribs · logs)	Periodic, daily	Notifies an editor if an article they had created/expanded was nominated for DYK by someone else	Link
FACBot (contribs · logs)	Periodic, every 12 hours	Merges {{DYK talk}} with {{Article History}} on article talk pages	Link
MilHistBot (contribs · logs)	Periodic, daily	Updates MILHIST with open MILHIST DYK nominations	Link
MajavahBot (contribs · logs)	One-time run?	Fills in missing DYK hooks on article talk tags	Link

Deprecated bots no longer active at DYK:

• DYKadminBot ^{(contribs · logs)}
• DYKBot ^{(contribs · logs)}
• WikiStatsBOT ^{(contribs · logs)}
• DYKReviewBot ^{(contribs · logs)}
• GimmeBot ^{(contribs · logs)}

• DYKHousekeepingBot, by Shubinator:
  1. Updates Wikipedia:Did you know/DYK hook count
  2. Notifies nominators when their nominations are open, but not transcluded to WP:DYKN or WP:DYKNA
• DYKUpdateBot, by Shubinator:
  1. Updates Template:Did you know, thus updating the main page
  2. Updates talk pages of articles that are featured on Did you know
  3. Notifies nominators and contributors of articles featured on Did you know
• GalliumBot, by theleekycauldron: detects and logs when a hook has been modified after promotion
• KrinkleBot, by Krinkle, Steinsplitter, and Legoktm: protects commons images that appear at DYK
• MusikBot, by MusikAnimal: Adds new date headers to WP:DYKN
• WugBot, by Wugapodes:
  1. Moves approved nominations from Template talk:Did you know to Template talk:Did you know/Approved
  2. Reminds nominators to transclude their nominations to Template talk:Did you know

Inactive

• DYKReviewBot, by Intelligentsium: Performed partial DYK reviews on every new nomination, checking newness, length, and sourcing, among other attributes.
• WikiStatsBOT, by ThaddeusB: Updated Wikipedia:Did you know/DYK hook count