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<p><a href="/wiki/WP:AES" class="mw-redirect" title="WP:AES">←</a>Created page with &#039;{{Short description|Wikimedia tool for searching categories}} {{hatnote|For instructions, see the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PetScan/en" class="extiw" title="m:PetScan/en">Manual for PetScan</a> (on Meta-Wiki). To link to PetScan queries, see <a href="/wiki/Template:PetScan" title="Template:PetScan">Template:PetScan</a>.}} {{redirect|WP:PET|the essay on grammar conventions and civility|Wikipedia:No pet peeve wars}} <a href="/wiki/File:PetScan_sports_players.png" title="File:PetScan sports players.png">thumb|300px|Output from article search</a>{{Shortcut|WP:PET|WP:PETSCAN|WP:CATSCAN}} {{center|{{Clickable button 2|Launch PetScan...&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Wikimedia tool for searching categories}}<br /> {{hatnote|For instructions, see the [[m:PetScan/en|Manual for PetScan]] (on Meta-Wiki). To link to PetScan queries, see [[Template:PetScan]].}}<br /> {{redirect|WP:PET|the essay on grammar conventions and civility|Wikipedia:No pet peeve wars}}<br /> [[File:PetScan sports players.png|thumb|300px|Output from article search]]{{Shortcut|WP:PET|WP:PETSCAN|WP:CATSCAN}}<br /> <br /> {{center|{{Clickable button 2|Launch PetScan|url=https://petscan.wmflabs.org/|class=mw-ui-big mw-ui-progressive}}}}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;PetScan&#039;&#039;&#039; (previously &#039;&#039;&#039;CatScan&#039;&#039;&#039;) is an external tool that searches an article category (and its subcategories) according to specified criteria to find articles, stubs, images, and categories. It can also be used for finding all articles that belong to two specified categories (the intersection). CatScan was developed by the German Wikipedian [[:de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb|Duesentrieb]] and is run on [[wikitech:Portal:Cloud VPS|Cloud VPS]], as part of Wikimedia Foundation&#039;s cloud computing environment.&lt;ref&gt;Until 2014 most tools were run on the [[m:toolserver|toolserver]], a previous service provided by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.&lt;/ref&gt; The tool has been rewritten three times by [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]], first in [[PHP]], then in [[C++]], finally in [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]].<br /> <br /> ==Resources==<br /> *[[m:PetScan/en|Instructions]]<br /> *[https://github.com/magnusmanske/petscan_rs/issues Issues]<br /> *[https://grafana-labs.wikimedia.org/d/000000018/labs-project-board?orgId=1&amp;var-project=petscan&amp;var-server=All Grafana metrics]<br /> *[[m:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan]] - About page<br /> *[[Template:PetScan]] - &quot;Scan&quot; template that automatically generates a link to a PetScan search.<br /> <br /> ==Uses and ideas==<br /> A few examples of how the English Wikipedia uses PetScan:<br /> *finding articles for deletion sorting, &#039;&#039;[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Comics_and_animation&amp;oldid=226140246 example]&#039;&#039;<br /> *finding articles for an educational project (class): search for stubs within a [[WP:CATEGORY|category]] corresponding to the class subject<br /> *finding certain articles with a certain template, e.g. featured articles containing the template {{tl|citation needed}} (see box below)<br /> {{stack|float=left|{{PetScan|cat=Featured articles|templates=citation needed|linktext=Featured articles needing citations}}}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Wikipedia:Category intersection]]<br /> *[[Wikipedia:Categorization]]<br /> *[[Help:Category]]<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> {{commonscat|CatScan}}<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Wikipedia categorization navbox}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Wikipedia categorization tools|PetScan]]<br /> [[Category:Searching in Wikipedia]]</div>

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