Difference between revisions of "Rewrite PageCreationBot"
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* Creates news pages based on a template | * Creates news pages based on a template | ||
| + | ** We need the template. | ||
* Monitoring and logging have been added (tests whether or not the bot succeeds) | * Monitoring and logging have been added (tests whether or not the bot succeeds) | ||
| + | ** Output to a log file. Either on each squal box (with aggregation) or an NFS volume. Have emailed Ethan and Michael about this. | ||
* Hooked in to all the old points Bot was | * Hooked in to all the old points Bot was | ||
| + | ** Not exactly the same points, but the same end-user functionality. | ||
* [[Projects:BotTest]] problems fixed | * [[Projects:BotTest]] problems fixed | ||
Revision as of 01:07, 6 September 2007
What (summary)
- New page-building bot
- Still relies on Java/Tomcat to do crawling (for now)
- Carefully tested
Why this is important
- We need to have control over the pages that our created on our site.
- The old bot was known to pollute the database; we need control over all the access points that could screw up our data.
- Gaining mastery over the code so that we can add new features easily.
DoneDone
- Creates news pages based on a template
- We need the template.
- Monitoring and logging have been added (tests whether or not the bot succeeds)
- Output to a log file. Either on each squal box (with aggregation) or an NFS volume. Have emailed Ethan and Michael about this.
- Hooked in to all the old points Bot was
- Not exactly the same points, but the same end-user functionality.
- Projects:BotTest problems fixed
Bot insertion points into Mediawiki
- /wiki/skins/common/generatePage.js (and some other javascript that we should remove)
- /wiki/extensions/AboutUsDomainRedirect/SpecialRedirectToDomain.php (deprecate and point to CaseSpace)
- /wiki/extensions/CaseSpace/CaseSpace.php (Ultimately, here is where the magic will happen.)