User:JoshurBot
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This user account is a bot operated by Joshurtree (talk).
It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. |
This bot is designed create project wide watchlists. It uses WikiProject categories contain talk pages that feature the projects banner. A link to each article is added to the watchlist so that Special:recentchangeslinked can be used to watch them.
The following steps are needed to add a watchlist to a project:-
- Create a subpage in the project and add {{Project watchlist}} with required parameters as given below
- Link Special:recentchangeslinked using the sub page's name somewhere on the project page
[edit] Parameters
Theres currently three parameters for the template
- project - This gives the name of the project (currently not used by the bot).
- source - This is the template or category that is used to find articles.
- type - This can be set to either "embedded in" for using a template or "category members" for a category. If a template is used as the source then all the articles that have the template on their talk pages will be included in the watchlist.
