Writing at Philippe's request in the hope that someone at the Hack-a-ton this weekend can work on it.

Because of the severity of threats of harm we want to try and create a way for staff members to be notified when one could require action. To do this we would like to create a script (perhaps on cron) to help. It would want to:

• Search specific pages (At first English Wikipedia's Administrator Noticeboard (Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard) and the Incidents subpage (Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents)

• Fetch the current copy of the page and look for specific phrases or words (example: 'bomb threat', 'suicide', 'threat of harm')

• When a flagged word or phrase is found email specified people telling them

a. That a flagged word had been found
b. The word that was found (and if possible the name of the section where it was found)
c. A link to the page (and if possible the section) where the word was found.

• Not trigger another email if it sees the same phrase, in the same location, within the next x hours (2?)

• Repeat the search every 5 minutes

Obviously an interface wouldn't really be necessary (or a good use of time) but making it relatively easy for someone with the access to change would be great as well.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43228