Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TyAbot 2

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Withdrawn by operator.

TyAbot 2

Operator: TyA (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 22:48, Tuesday, January 12, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Java, using jwiki

Source code available: Yes

Function overview: Go through the items on Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings and update the links on all pages in the mainspace.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): I saw someone suggest it at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Linked_misspellings.

Edit period(s): Weekly, as the report updates.

Estimated number of pages affected: The report gives off at most 1k typo'd redirect pages, likely less than 2,000 per run.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: The bot will pull the misspelled typos redirects from Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings. For each item on the list, it will fetch the pages in the mainspace that link to it and update the links to the page. The bot will also maintain an error log to alert me if it has any issues performing the task.

Discussion

That's an interesting list and I'm surprised that it isn't already integrated into fixes that AWB could do. →Σ σ ς. (Sigma) 23:03, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@TyA: This seems to fall under Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots#Fully automatic spell-checking bots. For example,

What would the bot do with typos in quotes, such as the Scooby Doo link in Craig Rousseau?
What would the bot do with the CCCP link on 1992 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships?
What would the bot do with the plexiglass link on SS-100-X?
What would the bot do with the [[Footbal (soccer)|football]] link in Kissami (family)? (see WP:COSMETICBOT)

Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:24, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't really thought of it as that, based on how the items were generated and the few ones I worked through with it. However with your examples, I can definitely say that I was wrong. From this I can say this should probs be closed. I could possibly work this into an assisted editing tool at some point. Thanks for your comments. ~ty^(talk) 04:41, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@TyA: I think this is a very useful task in concept, but as GoingBatty says, it really needs some manual oversight. We could reformulate this as a manually assisted task, or would you rather withdraw it? — Earwig ^talk 07:05, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gonna try to code up something for a manually assisted task to see how that goes. ~ty^(talk) 19:59, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If we could integrate it into AWB, as it seems not to be already done, it would already be manually assisted and subsume the scope of this BRFA. However I'm no longer fully sure how AWB works. →Σ σ ς. (Sigma) 10:53, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Σ: AWB uses the rules at WP:AWB/T, but intentionally ignores typos within wikilinks. GoingBatty (talk) 19:59, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawal - I am withdrawing this request per the reasons brought up above. ~ty^(talk) 20:27, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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