Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 6
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- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was
Approved.
Operator: Rich Farmbrough
Automatic or Manually Assisted:
Auto.
Programming Language(s):
AWB/Regex
Function Summary:Replace "cleanup" tag
Edit period(s) : Occasional unless integrated with regular task.
Edit rate requested: say max 1 edit per min (expected to be much slower) 6 per minute
Already has a bot flag (Y):
Function Details: On disambiguation pages with a cleanup template replace "{{cleanup}}" and "{{disambig}}" with "{{Disambig-cleanup}}" template.
Discussion[edit]
Fairly trivial. Rich Farmbrough, 16:13 2 March 2007 (GMT).
- Ok one question, how do you plan on getting the list of items? Do you plan on iterating through the cleanup category? If so may I suggest a faster method (should allow you to increase your edit speed). Take the intersection of the whatlinks here for both {{cleanup}} and {{disambig}}. Whatever is in both of those, run your bot on. Of course you would double check that the page really does have those templates. Just a thought as to speed up your bot. —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- The intersection method is what I used. I then used a set up that checked the presence of tags and made the appropriate changes. Since there were only 40 items, I did them by hand. However approval would still be appreciated for ongoing changes. Rich Farmbrough, 13:44 13 March 2007 (GMT).
- What does this actually achieve? --kingboyk 14:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
((BotExpired)). —METS501 (talk) 02:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- Seems completely straightforward, unless there's some objection in principle to the {{disambig-cleanup}} resource itself (which there doesn't seem to be). Otherwise, this seems like a "populating a maintenance cat on fairly inarguable criteria" task, unless there's some resource overkill consideration, which I wouldn't imagine is a real concern if this isn't being done frequently. I don't know how "occasionally" Rich had in mind, but I can also generate the above intersection from a db dump query, which would finesse the live ref-intersect entirely. (There were 48 at time of the recent (4th April) dump.) Alai 04:38, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- It seems fine to me, and can probably help to focus editors from a disambiguation project onto the articles needing cleanup (based on the expanation given below). Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. 50 edits. Thanks, Martinp23 11:44, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
- It seems fine to me, and can probably help to focus editors from a disambiguation project onto the articles needing cleanup (based on the expanation given below).
- Thanks trial is here. Only seven edits as that's all that were needed yesterday. Having said this, as the list is made in a seperate phase than the changes, I've upped the requested speed. Rich Farmbrough, 10:44 24 April 2007 (GMT).
- Cheers. Rich Farmbrough, 17:56 7 May 2007 (GMT).
Discussion2[edit]
- "What does this actually achieve?"
- It gets the correct template on the pages concerned. Note that this is a low use template unlike the two it replaces, enabling the relevant items to be found and dealt with quickly.
- See also the talk page of template in question. It is part of the dab project.
- The run was requested by a user, see [1].
- Archived request. I'm a bit peeved to find this archived, when it took over a fortnight for the first significant question about the request to appear. I kept an eye on the request for a while, but can you notify people before archiving their requests?
- Rich Farmbrough, 08:15 9 April 2007 (GMT).
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.