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Popular pages reports behind schedule

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T365780

Normally a popular pages report (like here) would have gone through its monthly update days ago. Any idea when this will be back up and running? StefenTower (talk) 22:06, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@StefenTower We had a bit of a late start this month, then things broke. I believe it is all sorted out now. The bot should get through all WikiProjects in due time. Apologies for the disruption! MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. I see that it's running now. Cheers! StefenTower (talk) 17:50, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Now it seems to be stalled again. It stopped at WikiProject Disability yesterday morning. StefenTower (talk) 21:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry :( I've got this tracked at phab:T365780. For this month's run, I'm just manually restarting, but I hope to have everything fixed for June's run. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 01:57, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your work, but I am concerned we're going to run out of this month before April's reports are generated. Two projects I'm involved with are still missing their April report. If there's a way I can run these individually, please let me know. Thanks. StefenTower (talk) 21:21, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

@StefenTower We can do that! WikiProject Louisville is under 20,000 pages, so for that you could use toolforge:massviews, i.e. [1]. Though I admit there's an issue (quite similar to what the bot is facing!) with throttling of the Pageviews API. For Massviews, just let it "finish" with all the errors, then hit refresh and it should work the second time.

Apologies for the inconvenience. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 22:17, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

I meant produce the official report, as I knew about Massviews. What I didn't know is Massviews works better after a refresh. Thanks for that nugget! StefenTower (talk) 22:40, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

By the way, this helped with one way I use the report, but the other aspect of how it shows the quality/importance assessments of each entry and being able to sort by those is needed. I haven't been able to figure out a way to generate this separately from this report. StefenTower (talk) 19:02, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

@StefenTower I just ran a one-off for w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville/Popular pages. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 23:08, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much! StefenTower (talk) 23:18, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

lag for new reports?

I think I set up these two correctly recently:

• en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Hungary/Popular pages
• en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Montenegro/Popular pages

But the bot didn't touch them, and seems to have been largely idle on the popular pages updates for the last couple of days. What's going on? --Joy (talk) 19:36, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

@Joy The "Name" property should match what is entered into en:Special:PageAssessments. I.e. it's Hungary, not WikiProject Hungary. Fixed with w:Special:Diff/1252774530. See also the troubleshooting tips. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:01, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Hoping it works now (still not seeing any changes). Any chance we can get this semi-obvious prefix workaround implemented in code? :) --Joy (talk) 22:11, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

@Joy The bot only runs monthly, but I have ran one-off jobs for the two projects so you don't need to wait a week :)

We could auto-strip the "WikiProject" prefix, but the bot is written to be wiki-agnostic, so it has no knowledge of "WikiProject" as a norm, so to speak. I think I'd rather not hack around it, and let the database (w:Special:PageAssements) be the source of truth. Thanks for the suggestion, nonetheless. — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:39, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Latino and Hispanic heritage/Popular pages

Hi @Community Tech bot, I don't think this page is still being updated, since there was a move of the wikiproject name, I hope it can be fixed, thanks, Oscar_. (talk) 04:07, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Also wonder if/how to include new wikiprojects to this, like Puerto Rico? Oscar_. (talk) 21:43, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

This can be resolved by admins on English Wikipedia. Per the top of this page: You can request changes by making a protected edit request on the configuration page. If your project is not updating, please refer to the troubleshooting tips.

If you believe there is an actual with the bot, please let us know here. Best, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 17:15, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Most Edited Articles not updating

@Community Tech bot (and maybe @MusikAnimal (WMF):), that page is close to a month since its last update. Any problems? Igordebraga (talk) 02:07, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for letting us know! I have identified the issue and a fix is in the works. I'll reply here again once everything is back to normal. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 15:43, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

This has been fixed. Best, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 20:13, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Disambig-Class articles -> Disambig-Class pages

Could Community tech bot please be told to link to w:Category:Disambig-Class pages rather than w:Category:Disambig-Class articles in popular pages reports. Thanks. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 21:08, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Also w:Category:Redirect-Class pages rather than w:Category:Redirect-Class articles and w:Category:NA-Class pages rather than w:Category:NA-Class articles and w:Category:NA-importance articles to w:Category:NA-importance pages. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 21:10, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Ping MusikAnimal (WMF) * Pppery * _{it has begun} 05:35, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. The data actually comes from xtools:api/project/assessments. I've updated the configuration and it will go out with the next XTools release, which I'll try to do in the next few days while I'm still around a computer (related: phab:E1926). It seems like MediaWiki:XTools-AutoEdits.json, which powers the config for xtools:autoedits, the page assessments config should probably live on-wiki, too. I can look into that when I return in March. It looks like enwiki is due for another cleanse of page assessment data in general, judging by quarry:query/100619. — MusikAnimal ^talk 09:31, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Annnnd a new release has been cut :) xtools:api/project/assessments/enwiki should be up-to-date now, and thus the next popular pages reports should use the right categories. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:51, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Popular pages reports

On English Wikipedia, I've been experimenting with using popular pages reports (like the one for WikiProject Comics) to create Top 7 lists to use in portal space. This seems to work well. Are there any pitfalls I might be overlooking? Rjjiii (talk) 12:32, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

I think this is fine for the purposes of a Lua module. The other option is to do all the preprocessing yourself, which shouldn't be done in Lua and would require a bot or something to write to a data module for Lua to consume. Of course, the module could break if we change the layout of the reports, but I am not aware of any plans to do this. So all in all, for what you're trying to do, this seems best and most certainly the easiest. It's also really useful! Nice work :) MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 03:16, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

We could have our bot also write to JSON subpage, which you could then use a data module. Probably a good idea regardless. If you care to create a task, I'll see if I can make time to implement it as it shouldn't be too hard. Note also phab:T141010 which would bring this data directly into AQS and make both of our lives easier, but it seems that never gained traction. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 03:20, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! A JSON subpage sounds like a good idea, but I haven't written or maintained a bot before, so I wouldn't feel comfortable suggesting specific changes to one. Rjjiii (talk) 03:58, 6 March 2026 (UTC)