Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CrimsonBot 4

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CrimsonBot

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

Time filed: 21:32, Saturday January 5, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Orphan / replace templates per WP:TFD when consensus is met to change these categories.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Consensus for the removal/substitution of these templates is done at WP:TFD There is a similar bot User:Forkbot User:SporkBot written in pearl.

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 100-200 pages per day 100-3000 depending on the size of the task. 1 edit per 10 seconds.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: This bot will remove/replace templates after consensus is reached by using regex and find/replace on AWB. A list of these templates are listed in WP:TFD/H.

Discussion

• Note: I withdrew a request like this a couple years ago. See CrimsonBot 3. This was withdrawn because there was a bug in awb causing the bot to remove whitespace. CrimsonBlue (talk) 21:32, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
• Is the source to this task the same as in the previous request, or have you made some changes?—cyberpower _Offline^{Happy 2013} 22:20, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

  It is the same source as my last request. CrimsonBlue (talk) 08:05, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  How have the issues brought up in the previous request been alleviated?—cyberpower _Offline^{Happy 2013} 13:25, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  Yes the AWB developers fixed this problem years ago. CrimsonBlue (talk) 22:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  Not quite the answer to my question but you're saying the issue was caused by AWB and not your bot source and that AWB is now fixed. Am I interpreting this correctly?—cyberpower _Offline^{Happy 2013} 22:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  The issue that caused me to remove my previous request was caused by AWB source code, not my find and replace regex. CrimsonBlue (talk) 08:35, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

• Don't we already have a bot that does this? →Σσς. (Sigma) 22:28, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

  Yes User:Forkbot User:SporkBot does a similar task, however there is still work to be done that the bot isn't doing. Such as a request to orphan Template:Wikify which still has 1210 transclusions. 682 of those are in the main space. CrimsonBlue (talk) 08:05, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  Isn't User:Forkbot blocked? Did you mean to type in User:SporkBot?—cyberpower _Offline^{Happy 2013} 13:25, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  That error has been fixed. CrimsonBlue (talk) 22:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

• I requested a similar task, though I didn't get approval. However, SporkBot is approved for this.  Hazard-SJ  ✈  04:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  The request expired because there was no work to be done at that time. As of right now there is plenty of work to be done. CrimsonBlue (talk) 08:05, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  Because the tasks are similar, I am concerned about potential bot conflicts. How, if any, will the bot handle them?—cyberpower _Offline^{Happy 2013} 13:25, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  I do not see this becoming a problem. If User:SporkBot has already removed a template, the bot is set to skip because no changes would have been made. My first approved task also is assisting User:Cydebot with WP:CFD and there haven't been any conflicts. CrimsonBlue (talk) 22:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  I see. I see no issues for a trial then.—cyberpower _Offline^{Happy 2013} 22:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

  Been wanting this task for while. No issues for a trial. We need a (increasingly rare) BAG member though. Vacation^nine 14:55, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Approved for trial (3 TFD outcomes or some 50-100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:59, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Trial complete. The trial is complete, however I have found that the bot may need to edit over 200 pages a day CrimsonBlue (talk) 09:43, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

• A random review of its contributions reveals no issues.—cyberpower ^Chat_Offline 15:23, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

 Approved. MBisanz ^talk 19:55, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

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