FACSummaryBot

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Time filed: 21:02, Saturday, March 21, 2026 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: https://github.com/roysmith/fac-tools

Function overview: Summarize the pending WP:FAC nominations.

The process currently used transcludes all of the pending nominations into one huge page. This has a number of problems, most notably that it often exceeds the WP:PEIS limit. This bot will, instead of mass-transcluding, parse all the individual nominations, extract the relevant information, and build a succinct summary.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WT:FAC#FAC Summary Bot POC

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: The bot parses WP:FAC to find the transcluded nominations, then parses each one of those to create a summary. As of now, I'm running the bot manually, and it writes its output to User:FACSummaryBot/summary.

Once in full operation the summary will be written to (I think) WP:FAC/summary. My plan is to install this on toolforge. Initially, it'll run as a cron job every 10 minutes. I'm hoping to eventually listen to a live feed to get faster response time. Some rough sizing numbers:

• There's an average of about one addition and one subtraction per day to the list of active nominations.
• Nominations tend to remain active for about 2-3 months, during which time they typically get about 100 edits, so about 1 edit/day for each one.
• There's about 50 nominations active at any one time.
• So, about 50 edits per day.