Wikipedia:Did you know/Scripts and bots

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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	Maintainer	Interval	Task	BRfA
AAlertBot	Hellknowz, Headbomb	1 day	Updates WikiProject article alerts with lists of open DYK nominations	1
DYKHousekeepingBot	Shubinator	30 minutes	Updates DYK hook count	2
		1 day	Notifies nominators of untranscluded nominations	3
DYKUpdateBot	Shubinator	24 hours	Updates the DYK section of the Main Page. If an error prevents the update, describes the specific error at User:DYKUpdateBot/Errors	1
EnterpriseyBot	Enterprisey	1 day	Notifies an editor if an article they had created/expanded was nominated for DYK by someone else	2
FACBot	Hawkeye7	12 hours	Merges {{DYK talk}} with {{Article History}} on article talk pages	6
GalliumBot	theleekycauldron	3 hours	Logs modifications of promoted hooks on nomination talk pages	1
JL-Bot	JLaTondre	1 week	Updates WikiProjects with lists of DYKs that have reached the Main Page	5
KrinkleBot	Krinkle, Steinsplitter, Legoktm	10 minutes	Protects DYK images hosted at Commons before they reach the Main Page	2
MilHistBot	Hawkeye7	1 day	Updates MILHIST with open MILHIST DYK nominations	1
MusikBot	MusikAnimal	1 day	Adds new date sections at T:TDYK	6
WugBot	Wugapodes	30 minutes	Moves approved nominations from T:TDYK to WP:DYKNA	2
		1 day	Transcludes DYK nominations on article talk	3

Deprecated bots no longer active at DYK:

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

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