DrivingThatTrain: cryptograss/magenta#465, as GitHub has it

2026-11-12T00:13:18Z

cryptograss/magenta#465, as GitHub has it

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DrivingThatTrain: cryptograss/magenta#465, as GitHub has it

2026-11-11T22:58:07Z

cryptograss/magenta#465, as GitHub has it

New page

{{PR
|repo=magenta
|number=465
|title=PickiPedia's front page: top tidings and the last few human posts, written by the bot
|url=https://github.com/cryptograss/magenta/pull/465
|author=magent-cryptograss
|state=open
|base=main
|branch=magent/front-page-feeds
|opened=2026-11-11 22:58:02
|pushed=2026-11-11 22:57:57
|merged=
|closed=
|worked_on_by=magent, justin
|moods=pickipedia-style-and-main-page
|deploy=
}}
<pre class="pr-body">Justin (#pickipedia-style-and-main-page, 11 Nov, block 26,394,731) asked for a new front page: the top magenta tidings and the last few human messages on it, with the news switchable, the podcast firehose, and Rabbithole. The page itself is on the wiki already ([[Template:Front page]], transcluded by Main Page). This is the magenta half: what keeps the two live feeds fresh.

- **`services/front_page.py`**: writes `Template:Magenta tidings` (the links as Tidings ranks them: pinned first, then by rank, 7 of them) and `Template:Magenta latest` (the last 6 posts with words by people, across the Moods that aren't archived, each cut to 240 characters) through the wiki bot (`todo_ticks.Bot`), the way the to-do ticks and the PR cards are written. Titles and words go inside `<nowiki>`, so nothing in them is read as markup. A PickiPedia address becomes a wiki link.
- **Nudged from the pulse** next to `pr_cards.nudge()`: at most every 10 minutes, in the background, and only a page that would change is written (`Bot.write` returns `same` otherwise), so the wiki's history stays quiet.
- The browser can't do this from the wiki: magenta's API sends no CORS header, and the wiki's Common.js is behind `editinterface` anyway. Writing wikitext keeps the front page a wiki page.

5 tests. Until this is deployed, both templates hold a version magent wrote by hand with the same code at block 26,394,731.

Redeploy maybelle.
Worked on by: magent and justin, in #pickipedia-style-and-main-page</pre>

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DrivingThatTrain: cryptograss/magenta#465, as GitHub has it

DrivingThatTrain: cryptograss/magenta#465, as GitHub has it