Key

  • b=beta
  • r=release
  • =production bot
  • =development bot
  • =future/proposed
b00 2011-05-04 - First release for trial run.
  • Checks for deletions and speedy nominations
  • Posts notifications to article talk & central locations
b52 2011-05-06 - Major code clean up
  • Added a test/development mode ticket
  • Fixed a number of bugs
  • A full fix for the ongoing encoded chars problem ticket
  • Introducing botconfig.py
  • Only places notifications on talk pages if it thinks none already exists
b52a 2011-05-08 - Bot no longer places deletion notifications on article talk pages, per discussion (quick fix to get things working while dev is ongoing)
b65 2011-05-09 - New tracking & tweaks based on feedback
  • Bot status page (to show online/offline status of production/development bots)
  • Cleaner tracking of locally uploaded files
  • Added a check to make sure all image revisions were deleted at commons (request) ticket
  • Added a new way to track processed images (mostly for when the bot restarts) using a seperate machine-readable page rather than the human-readable log
  • Bot no longer notifies article talk pages upon deletion of images - instead it will only centrally notify about widely used images (per request) ticket
  • Add notifo notifications to Bot operator when it crashes ticket
  • Bot tries to "fail gracefully" and update the status page on crashing ticket
r71 2011-05-16 - Bot tweaked & approved
  • Changed username to CommonsNotificationBot
  • Expanded checked categories slightly for "production" version
  • No longer notifies WP:AN per request.
r71a 2011-05-17 - Temporarily disabling monitoring of CSD Flickr categories due to strange behaviour of the Commons Flickr bot
r73 2011-05-26 - Expand what the bot tracks
  • Bot now tracks deletion requests on commons (ticket)
r78 2011-05-31 - Some fixes and improvements to reduce the amount of edits made
  • Fixed a minor error on the /log page where the = symbol in URI's broke the template display (ticket)
  • Store the tracking log locally, only save it on-wiki hourly (to reduce user space edits) (ticket)
r79 2011-06-01 - Tweaks & bug fix
  • Fixed a bug where the tracking log was not clearing old entries.. and grew and grew! (ticket)
  • Increase tracking log save time to every 2 hrs
r82 2011-06-29 - Tracking unsourced
r91 2011-08-22 - Expanded functionality
  • Improved edit summary (ticket)
  • Monitor English Wikipedia file CSD categories (ticket, BRFA)
r92 2011-08-24 - Consolidated Notifications
  • A "messy hack" to let the bot consolidate multiple notifications on some pages (ticket)
r97 2011-11-30 - Bug fixes
  • Enable multi/condensed notifications for commons as well (ticket)
  • Fixing issue with templates in tracking log (ticket)