Thetalk page template forWikiProject Watches has been marked as inactive. This meant that its assessment categories were no longer being filled, and as such have all been deleted:
It looks like the categories were deleted on October 18, but the last update to that table was on September 23. So what's the incongruency? If you're talking about manual updates throughhttps://wp1.openzim.org/#/update it might just be that the updater starts, sees that there are no categories and nothing to be done, and then immediately completes.
There is nothing that deletes WikiProjects from the bot's database or website, even when the relevant categories have been deleted, so you will continue to seeWatches listed there.
Sorry, having trouble setting up the stats for this project. Also, an editor is speedy-deleting the needed categories... I'd really appreciate it if you could set up and run the bot so we know the system is up and running.Wikipedia:WikiProject Forestry/Assessment contains the code
<div>{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Forestry articles by quality statistics}}</div>
I just ran the bot manually rather than wait for the nightly run, and it updatedUser:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Forestry, which is where it actually updates; your "Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Forestry articles by quality statistics" page was blank, but checking the page history it needs a link to that 1.0 bot page to be useful. I've updated it for you.
Thank you very much for doing that: now we at least have populated categories, and a correctly-structured table. I'm sorry to trouble you again straight away, but as you say the situation looks weird. For instance, the bot has managed to include one tree article I brought to GA,Spruce, but not some others, such asPine, also at GA. I can't see any difference in how I configured these articles, they are similar in construction. Could the bot run have been limited to some number (50?) in some way with a default configuration parameter or something? I really don't know my way around the bot system so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage.Chiswick Chap (talk)18:29, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The issue here is that the template is the thing that populates the categories, but changes made to them (like yours) don't trigger an automatic reload, so the categories are only updated (and then used by the bot) after a random amount of time or, as PresN mentioned, when there's an edit to the page it's on. Using therefresh script, I made anull edit to every page it's transcluded on, then re-ran the bot; it looks like it's still missing a few but it's not far off now!Aluxosm (talk)11:04, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do both quality and importance assessments count? Most are using the quality assessments (especially now thatPIQA is a thing), but fewer are using importance assessments. These counts should be pretty accurate as they search for templates that useModule:WikiProject banner (1,366 uses excluding sandboxes) and which specify either the|class= or|importance= parameteres:
With only 259 projects in that category, either way it has a way to go! It'd definitely be easier to update it with the help of a script that finds the missing ones; if you still reckon the category is actually useful, I could do it if we decide on the criteria 🤙Aluxosm (talk)11:36, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I was just about to suggest that it could be updated automatically by theWP banner module but it seems that it already does to some degree! I think it only tracks 1,061 templates because a few are missed due to non-matching titles (see thedocs), and it currently only tracks the|class= parameter, but this might still be useful:
Thank you for your well-considered reply. I'm looking for any WikiProjects doing WP 1.0 assessments, where class/rating will be set for in-project subject pages. It doesn't matter as much if a project sets importance, or uses an alternative like priority, as for this exercise, I'm just interested in the overall WP 1.0 effort for inclusion in the category I referenced.
The searches you link here unfortunately won't be accurate, mainly due to the existence of WikiProject United States, which is an umbrella to a large number of projects, which themselves should count in the total.
Since I posted my request, I've been thinking about this, and have concluded the best way to handle this (so far) is to find alist of all the WP 1.0 tables that gets filled in by the WP 1.0 bot, using those to determine the WikiProject front pages, and rejecting any of those that are redirects. From this list, I would subtract out all those already included in the category, and useAWB to add the category to those remaining. If there's an easier way to do this, that would be useful, but the approach I'm outlining here already isn't particularly difficult.Stefen𝕋ower's got the power!!1!Gab •Gruntwerk01:11, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds like that's better for what you're going for maybe; the framework of a standalone "wikiproject" isn't always a valid one. I raise as an exampleUser:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Video game characters, which is the table for the video game characters task force (WP:VGCHAR), which isn't a "wikiproject" in that it's a task force forWP:VG, but does track its own subset of articles, so the difference between that and a wikiproject is mostly just template coding. --PresN04:04, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, not as easy as I thought. To your question, I think that it'd be good to have them all in there so that active task forces with inactive parents aren't ignored when sending mass messages.Aluxosm (talk)04:48, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm trying to use the PetScan feature to make a .zim for kiwix.
https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=40642859
However, the Zim that is outputted by the openzim (https://wp1.openzim.org/#/selections/user) tool is weirdly small.
Just 40 pages, it seems, looking at the main page through kiwix.
Not sure if you can access the link to the Zim file but here it is (https://api.wp1.openzim.org/v1/builders/1778e6ef-6c81-494e-b044-d9014b257cc9/zim/latest). It's 430 KB. Any idea what might be going wrong?
Looking at the output of the PetScan, I seem to have all the pages I want, but it doesn't seem to translate properly to the Zim file.
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