Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EdBot 2

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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

EdBot

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Operator: EdBoy002

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Tagging WikiProject pages with the appropriate templates (using Kingbotk's plugin)

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Weekly or One time run, depending on the request

Edit rate requested: 10 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: Kingbotk's plugin allows tagging of an entire WikiProject, by adding the templates and categories to the pages and their talk pages. It's done much faster with AWB and its plugin, and allows new WikiProjects to start up faster.

Also, it won't screw it up like last time.

Discussion

I have concerns about this task request, and would like to see EdBoy tell us under what circumstances he would tag a project and what checks he'd make. I'd prefer that, at least for now, the user come to BRFA for approval for each tagging run (proposed), as I'm not convinced of his AWB competance, and this is quite a complex task. So, to EdBoy, please could you provide the info I request above? Martinp23 21:06, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Echoing Martin, I'd much rather you use Wikipedia:BOTREQ for any requests than you run the bot yourself, as this sort of task has so many issues, I'd rather have experienced users do it. At the very least, choose one project, get approval for it from the project, show us your regexes, show us your categories, and work from there. --ST47Talk 21:26, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, here's the regexes I generated for WikiProject Wikipedia:

\{\{\s*(?<tl>template\s*:)?\s*(?<tlname>WikiProject Wikipedia)\b[\s\n\r]*(([\s\n\r]*\|[\s\n\r]*(?<parm>[^}
\{\{\s*(?<tl>template\s*:)?\s*(?<tlname>WikiProject Wikipedia)\b[^}]*

Doesn't matter. I think it'd be a better idea for people to use Wikipedia:BOTREQ, since AWB is too hard to use for this kind of work. ~EdBoy^[c] 21:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Withdrawn by operator. --ST47Talk 00:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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