Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NervousBot
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Operator: Balance3641 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 09:58, Monday, August 10, 2026 (UTC)
Function overview: Alerts users to cross-language articles created for articles they have authored. Will watch for new articles linked to the wikidata and alert users on their talk page.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic, can supervise to begin before becoming automatic.
Programming language(s): Typescript
Source code available: Not currently
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Would_anyone_be_opposed_to_a_bot_that_notifies_you_when_someone_translates_an_article_you_made? Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Bot_that_informs_you_when_someone_translates_your_article
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Upper bound was ~5 alerts/min measured over the last day.
Namespace(s): User_talk
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: The bot watches the live EventStreams recentchange stream, and detects edits to the wikidata wikipedia entries and if there is an enwiki entry, and another wiki is added a message is added to user talk pages. Users can opt-out with the {{bots}} template. The bot adds a comment in the message to detect duplicate messages based on the source article and linked language (so spamming the wikidata with changes won't spam user talk pages, even if the article linked is different). The bot will listen on User:NervousBot/shutoff, and anything except 'running' on the page will force a shutdown. Logs will be written to User:NervousBot/log.
Talk Page Message
[edit source]A new page Foo on the French Wikipedia has been linked to your page Foo via Wikidata (Q123).
To opt out of these notifications, see the opt-out instructions.