That is a a great Idea for just dealing with those cases of {{Cite doi}}.
However I just realized from your response that the scope of this problem
is larger, {{Cite journal|doi=}} also contains dois that the project wants
to keep track of. Is there a way to know when {{Cite journal}} changes?
I suppose the hack could be to make {{Cite journal}} call another template
which we can track. Or have Lua somehow report out what DOIs are in use.
Max Klein
‽ http://notconfusing.com/
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> If I understand correctly,
>
> {{cite doi|10.1103/RevModPhys.69.865}}
>
> essentially includes
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_doi/10.1103.2FRevModPhys.69.865
> ; if that page does not exist, a bot will fill it (e.g.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cite_doi/10.1103.2FRevModPhys.69.865&oldid=472819775
> ).
>
> As such, you could just edit pages with the prefix "Template:Cite_doi/".
> You'd just have to check for new pages there, and that should be easy to do
> with a database query.
>
> Merlijn
>
>
> On 13 June 2014 23:53, Maximilian Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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]
> >
> >
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