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MonAlBot - Wikipedia users monitoring tools

MonAlBot is a PHP script dedicated to support the monitor of the contributes of Wikipedia users. It was born to support the instructors of Wikipedia training classes, but can also be used by generic groups of users, maybe working on a project or a sharing common interests.

Main web site

MonAlbot main site is at https://www.forsi.it/wp/monalbot.php (thanks to Daniele for the kind hosting).

How to use it

The main page requests two parameters:

  • List of wikipedia users
  • Start date (optional, default 1-Jan-2016)
The list of wikipedia users can have two formats:
  • List of users, each on a line
  • URL of a wikipedia page including one or more valid user names (see below)

List of users from a wiki page

Instead of typing or copy a list of users, a list can be maintained on a page in wiki format. User names in the page must be in a valid the wikilink format

  • [[User:FabC]]
  • [[User:FabC|Fabrizio Carrai]]
Note 1: The link to the users can be embedded in any text of the page. The script scans the text and search for them.

Note 2: The keyword "User" is relative to the country of the MonAlBot installation and configuration. For example: an the italian installation will search for users of https://it.wikipedia.org and will search for users identified with [[Utente:FabC]]. An english installation will search for users of https://en.wikipedia.org and will search for users identified with [[User:FabC]].

Results

The script generates a report page with:

  • List of users
  • One section for each user including
  • Contributes to wikipedia
  • User pages created or modified (sandbox, personal pages, etc...)
Note: the current version has a limit of 50 users per query.
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