Hello All,
I'm working on the Open-Access Signalling Project[1], which aims to signal
and badge when a reference in Wikipedia is Open Access source. I'm writing
the bot at the moment to do this, and I'm encountering a question - how do
I keep track of the values of the template {{Cite doi | doi=value}}, in as
close to real-time as possible?
The most efficient approach I can come up with is to query the SQL servers
on Labs in constant loop, returning the results of "What transcludes {{Cite
doi}}" and seeing if the last_edited timestamp is newer than previous? If
the last_edit is newer, then get the content of the page and see if the
{{Cite_doi}} value has changed, checking against a local database.
This seems horribly inefficient still. Is there a hook to know when a
template on a page has been edited, rather than having to check every time
the page has been edited?
Thanks in advance,
Max Klein
‽ http://notconfusing.com/
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness
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