Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alaska/Alaska recent changes

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This page is taking a huge amount of time to save every other time I try to put something on it; tonight it took an hour. This may be due to my dial-up connection, but I'm wondering about whether there's some way to make it go faster. It's all the images. I'm very reluctant to try this again; it just takes too long, even if I save up a list of pages to add. Is there some way to add them automatically rather than manually pasting? Also, the page is showing up on all the category pages, and that doesn't seem quite right; should we be typing [[:Category whatever it is]] rather than [[Category whatever it is]]? Deirdre 09:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, adding pages manually isn't the greatest. I was able to figure out a way to auto-magically have this happen, unfortunatly it only works to track the *specific* pages that have the {{Project Alaska}} template on them; ie, it automatically adds the Talk Pages, NOT the article pages themselves. Perhaps what we can do is go forward, I can ~once a week copy over the listing of the recently automatically added Talk pages into a text editor, and strip away the "Talk" tag. It will mean that pages that have only recently had the Project template added will not immedialy show up on recent changes. Not the best, but perhaps better than manually editing this list...? In the mean time, I moved Images to Alaska recent changes/Images so the page should load considerably faster now. I also updated the Category tags to :Category, so that is fixed as well. —akghetto ^talk 09:54, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I love automated stuff like that! Thank you very much. I assume that manually adding the pages now would cause problems if you are doing a list from the talk pages added...duplicates? or should I go ahead and add the pages manually? it should be much easier without the images there... Deirdre 20:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

If you'd like to keep manually adding things to track changes more frequently than what I'll be able to update, feel free. It shouldn't mess up what I'll be doing (of course, since I haven't actually done an update yet, this very well could change). —akghetto ^talk 09:26, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Just did the first mass update. Seems to have gone well. We've tagged over 560 articles & images! WOW! —akghetto ^talk 08:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Man, this must have been a lot of work! If we have to do this manually, we should put them in alphabetical order. It's a lot easier to tell if they've already been added. Deirdre 01:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

It really wasn't that much work; 20 minutes tops. Basically I just copy over the list from Category:WikiProject Alaska and do a bunch of find/replace to wikify the links. That category is populated by all the pages that have the {{Project Alaska}} tag on them. The list should be mostly in alphabetical order. —akghetto ^talk 03:20, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Something happened to the recent changes page--it was in alphabetical order with bullets, now it's a mass of unorganized links, very hard to tell if something's in here or not. Can this be cleaned up again? I have no idea (other than the really slow manual way) how to do this quickly. Deirdre 20:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I take that back; they do appear to be in alphabetical order, so this setup should work. Never mind. Deirdre 20:07, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where'd the end of the alphabet go?

Everything from Template:AKGovernors to Yupik just got wiped out in that last auto-update. --Zero Gravitas 09:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

They're both there. The list actually has 1031 items, but is "doubled" when you add in the talk pages of each item. Look around 1031 and you'll see both Yupik and the Template in question. Unfortunatly the software I use to generate the list makes one pass to spit out all the articles, and then another for the Talk pages which then the two lists are just appended to eachother. I can alpha-combine/sort the two lists, but then it ends up placing all the talk pages with all the "T" articles. If you want to add articles to this list between my (auto)updates, I wouldn't worry about keeping it in alpha order - just add stuff to the end. It won't affect the way the recent changes page displays anything, and I'll end up alphabatizing it anyway. —akghetto ^talk 09:48, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, thanks. I always stay up too late on Wikipedia lately, and then I miss things like that. --Zero Gravitas 10:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories completed

I've gone through and manually traversed all the categories starting from Category:Alaska, adding the project template to any category that didn't have it. Every Alaska-related category should now be tagged, unless there're some weird ones out there that don't relate themselves to Category:Alaska in any way. The only one I didn't do was Category:WikiProject Alaska, in case that would do something stupid and recursive with the change reporting. --Zero Gravitas 07:54, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New update?

It's been about three months since the last mass update; any chance of getting a new one soon? —Zero Gravitas 18:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, I did it myself. The method I used resulted in a slightly different ordering from AKGhetto's (e.g., Alaska-space is before Alaska-hyphen now instead of after) so the diff is a bit inflated, but everything with a tag should be there. —Zero Gravitas 19:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)