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Contents 1 Encouraging participation 2 Request for Comments 3 A simple list? 4 facfailed template 5 autoformatting and date-links

[edit] Encouraging participation

I tried adding "When you nominate an article, please consider also choosing another article from the list to review." to the instructions and was told that was not a good place for it. I would like to encourage more participation in FAC; what do people think would be a good way to do this? --Ideogram 19:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Inform relevant WikiProjects and noticeboards; you are a lot more likely to get knowledgable reviewers that way than any other (unless you know specific, appropriate individuals to solicit). - Jmabel | Talk 06:22, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Noticeboards? -Ravedave ^{(help name my baby)} 05:25, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Regional notice boards. Titoxd^(?!?) 05:26, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Comments

I don't like to whine, but I was wondering how to make sure a FAC gets enough third-party attention. I've put Serial Experiments Lain up for two weeks now, and it has had only four answers. Is there a place to post about that?--SidiLemine 14:03, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, adding a note to relevant WikiProject discussions (like anime, tv series, computers?) is a good idea. You can also leave messages on talk pages of editors that in the past have significantly edited this article or discussed it. Beyond that, it's just luck...-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  17:24, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A simple list?

Is there a place where the current FACs are shown in a simple list, with links to the relevant FAC discussions (without all the comments/supports/objects/etc.)? I don't like how I often have to wait for the entire, humongous FAC page to load. If there isn't such a list, how would I go about creating one? Many thanks, Gzkn 02:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

IF you don't mind doing some pruning, this is probably what you want. Raul654 06:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm...not exactly. I was hoping more for a simple list like so:

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/New York City

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sei Whale

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Katie Melua

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bacteria

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mark Foley scandal etc.

Is there an easy way to make a automatically populating list like that? Gzkn 06:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Again, some pruning and tidying would be necessary, but could scrape the source from WP:FAC (which contains transluded links to the subpages), chop the header and footer, and replace "{{" and "}}" around the {{Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/<regexp>}} with "[[" and "]]" Some sort of bot? :) -- ALoan (Talk) 11:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, guess there's no easy way. :) That does look more like the solution I was looking for though! No experience with bots though (although I am familiar with Perl), so I'll have to look into this...many thanks! Gzkn 11:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

No doubt perl could do it (or even an offline text editor), but if you wanted to set up a page and keep it updated, presuambly a bot would be easiest? -- ALoan (Talk) 11:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

If you use ?action=raw, this should be easy. Titoxd^(?!?) 21:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

OK. Is this the beginning of FACBot? :) Or should I make it my own for now (GzknBot)? Gzkn 12:14, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

This may be useful to you if you're looking for past FACs, but I've now realised you merely want current FACs. CloudNine 21:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] facfailed template

Since the Nov. 11 promotion, none of the failed facs have had the fac template updated on their talk pages. Should I/someone do that? If so, where do we find a list of all that need replacing? Do we go through each one, by reviewing the history here? Sandy (Talk) 02:41, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/November 2006 and Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archived nominations/December 2006 Raul654 02:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Raul, I'll work on them. Sandy (Talk) 02:54, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Done. Sandy (Talk) 03:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] autoformatting and date-links

The vexed issue of date-links occasionally takes up space in the FAC room. I'm trying to gather support for an attempt to have the developers create a parallel syntax that allows dates to be autoformatted without being linked, while retaining the current system. We hope that this will have a number of benefits for the project, including a reduction in conflict.

The discussion, draft request text, and list of supporters are here. Tony 08:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)