Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JJMC89 bot 10

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Approved.

JJMC89 bot 10[edit]

Operator: JJMC89 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 00:28, Monday, February 6, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Pending

Function overview: Correct coordinate parameter errors and warnings from the enwiki ghel report.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): N/A

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: ~17,000 initially; varies afterward

Exclusion compliant: Yes

Already has a bot flag: Yes

Function details: Correct coordinate parameter errors and warnings from the enwiki (alt view) ghel report.

Example regex inside a {{coord}} parameter value:

Too many colons: Replace: \b(?:type|scale|dim|region|globe|source):((?:type|scale|dim|region|globe|source):)\b → \1 (e.g. type:dim:1000 → dim:1000)
Missing colon: Remove: _?(?:type|scale|dim|region|globe|source)\s*$ (e.g. dim:1000_type → dim:1000)

Before saving changes, coordinate parameters are checked for possible errors. For example, the value for region against ^(?:[A-Z]{2}(?:-[A-Z\d]{1,3})?)$.

Any error or warning that requires judgement (e.g. dim override) will be skipped.

Discussion[edit]

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. This request is very esoteric, and a short trial run to produce a demonstration of the changes should help illustrate it best for reviewers. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:30, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. 25 edits The first four correct 'too many colons' and the rest correct 'missing colon'. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:26, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for extended trial (500 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Thank you, please run a larger batch. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:52, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. It made 20 extra edits: 520 edits. — JJMC89 (T·C) 21:23, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please list some examples in function details of what the correct syntax is and what the incorrect ones are, including what is meant by "separated by underscores"? Template:Coord#Coordinate_parameters explains almost nothing and took me some guessing to finally figure out the general syntax. But I'm having trouble verifying some of these. Something like type:type:landmark is obviously wrong [1]. It's not obvious how type:region:IT is wrong [2] -- is it "region" or "type" that should be removed?

[3] -- this change isn't listed in function details.

— HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 22:17, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinate parameters (type, scale, dim, region, globe, source) are specified in a single {{coord}} parameter (|3=, |5=, |7=, or |9=) with each parameter separated by underscores (|9=name1:value1_name2:value2). Similar to template parameters being separated by pipes (|) with name and value separated by equals (=), coordinates parameters are separated by underscores (_) with name and value separated by colon (:). Coordinates parameters cannot by empty.

#2 type is empty, and IT is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Italy.

— JJMC89 (T·C) 06:04, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Let's say it had been type:region:river. Would the bot replace it with region:river or type:river? — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 22:40, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It should skip the page after attempting to change it to region:river since river would not match ^(?:[A-Z]{2}(?:-[A-Z\d]{1,3})?)$. — JJMC89 (T·C) 04:44, 25 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So if it skips reasonably invalid values, why not add this to function details? As it stands, the task description does not distinguish valid/invalid values. The only exception appears to be country codes for region. Do you check other values listed in {{Coord}}? Is it likely that there are invalid ones? — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 12:37, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Only coordinate parameters are checked. There could be problems with other {{coord}} parameters; however, they should be visible on the page, and many would not be fixable by a bot. — JJMC89 (T·C) 20:22, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Looks good. Also, can you please update the bot to use more descriptive summaries (other tasks too, e.g. "Replace BSicon(s)"), ideally linking to the task description. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 12:16, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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