User:Legoktm/wiki page or query page

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Bot-run database reports post their results as a list or table on a wiki page. MediaWiki reports are special pages, specifically the QueryPage hierarchy. Each has pros and cons.

Wiki pages:

  • have history, make diffing new entries simple
  • show up in watchlists, have RSS/Atom feeds
  • generate "what links here" links for pages currently listed in them
  • are editable by regular editors

Query special pages:

  • ephemeral, doesn't leave history behind
  • more flexible pagination, not fixed to whatever number of entries the bot dumped on the page
  • automatically get corresponding API modules, makes feeding pages into e.g. AWB/Pywikibot a breeze
  • dynamic updating of pages that have been "fixed" (usually a strikethrough or smth)

Both types of page:

  • Depend on developers or maintainers for changes, which can be a bottleneck (see this five-year-old request for an example of this bottleneck that was worked around with a report on a wiki page)

Ideas[edit]

  • Allow watching query pages? Or just send echo notifications?
  • Add a timestamp to query page results of when the page was first added to the report, allow ordering by that timestamp to show new entries first.
  • Dump query pages to a wiki page? Just have a bot copy it over whenever the report is updated?
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