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WolfBot 6 edit

Operator: Wolfgang42 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 00:16, Wednesday December 19, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: on GitHub

Function overview: Perform cleanup on pages and categories related to meteorites and their talk pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 51#Meteorites

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: Unknown (6 pages/minute max)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):

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

Function details: Recursively descends through the Category:Meteorites tree, performing the following tasks:

  • Articles:
    1. Adds {{WikiProject Geology}} to the talk page if it's not already there
    2. Sets the following parameters of {{WikiProject Geology}}:
      • If the article is a stub and does not already have a category, set cat=Stub and auto=Yes
      • If the article hasdoes not have an infobox, set needs-infobox=Yes
      • Set meteorite=Yes
      • If there isn't a meteorite-importance param, add an empty one.
    3. If the article is in Category:Meteorites found in country, add {{WikiProject country}} to the talk page, with class=Stub|auto=Yes if it's a stub
    4. If the page is considered a stub, add {{Meteorite-stub}}, replacing {{Stub}} or {{meteoroid-stub}} if they are already in the article.
    5. Make cosmetic changes to the source code using PyWikipediaBot's cosmetic_changes.py
  • Categories: Add {{WikiProject Geology}}, and set class=Cat if it's not already set.


Discussion edit

Typo in step 2.2. It should read: "if the article does not have an infobox..." -Arb. (talk) 14:10, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed — Wolfgang42 (talk) 20:22, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a good bot task; requested, discussed, posted for interested parties to comment, finite scope, useful. --68.107.131.23 (talk) 22:19, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz talk 22:59, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

{{BotTrialComplete}} It made more than 50 edits; the latest 50 (made December 24th) are the relevant ones. The earlier ones were made when I accidentally let the bot loose on the real wiki before it was debugged, and have been fixed where necessary. — Wolfgang42 (talk) 22:16, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I forgot to mention the handling of stub tags in the article; I added this to the function details above. — Wolfgang42 (talk) 18:09, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That was a good test run with a few issues naturally (is this the place to list them?). In no particular order:

  • Talk:Campo del Cielo, duplicate {{WikiProject Argentina}} added (diff).
  • Buzzard Coulee meteorite 1, added {{Meteorite-stub}} even though the article is C-class (articles are rated to the highest assessment template on the talk page; at the time of writing there were three: Stub, Start and C!) (diff).
  • Buzzard Coulee meteorite 2, added the {{Meteorite-stub}} after the Interlanguage links; per WP:Order it should come after Categories but before the Interlanguage links. (diff).
  • Talk:Bovedy (meteorite) 1, added {{WikiProject United Kingdom|class=Stub|auto=Yes}}; this is correct per the spec but in this case {{WikiProject Ireland}} and {{WikiProject Northern Ireland}} are both already present so UK is over doing it. Not worth much effort though. If any more crop up I'll fix them manually (diff).
  • Talk:Bovedy (meteorite) 2, this page uses {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} so the the bot should place any assessment templates it adds inside the wrapper. For bonus points add the wrapper whenever a talk page contains three or more assessment templates after the bot has completed the rest of its work on the page (diff).

Other than that it's looking real good! -Arb. (talk) 00:17, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the above pages manually so you will have to use the diffs to see the issues. -Arb. (talk) 01:00, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll work on fixing these problems starting after Christmas. In order to fix problem #3, I'll also be running the page text through PyWikipediaBot's cosmetic_changes.py (in fact, I may make the entire bot use the PyWikipediaBot framework), so I added that to the task list. — Wolfgang42 (talk) 04:48, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks for the updates. Just let us know when you're ready for another trial. MBisanz talk 01:07, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Status update: I suddenly wound up in a large project In Real Life (wow! that exists?), and now I've been sick for nearly a week. I hope to finish coding the changes partway through the week after next. I apologize for taking so long! — Wolfgang42 (talk) 02:15, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Request Expired. MBisanz talk 22:56, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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