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Legobot 18[edit]

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

Time filed: 07:18, Tuesday August 14, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python using Pywikipedia rewrite branch

Source code available: [1]

Function overview: Adds |oldid= to {{GA}} when missing

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): bot request

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 20/week?

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details:

Discussion[edit]

An example edit (which I meant to make under my account). LegoKontribsTalkM 07:18, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A few code comments, since you posted a link and I'm procrastinating : 

        while not foundOldid:
            fetch += 10
            hist = page.fullVersionHistory(total=fetch)

This seems wrong. Taking a quick look in pywikipedia, it doesn't seem that page.fullVersionHistory even takes a "total" parameter (it seems to have "revCount" instead). And if it did this would probably fetch history entries 1–10, then 1–20, then 1–30, and so on rather than 1–10, 11–20, 21–30, and so on. 

        search = re.search('\{\{GA(.*?)\}\}', oldtext)

Note this will match all templates in Special:PrefixIndex/Template:GA, not just {{GA}}, and has various other issues that are less likely to be troublesome for this particular template. Anomie⚔ 16:20, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I probably should have specified up there, but I'm using a custom flavor of the pywikipedia rewrite branch, not the standard release. But the fetch += 10 part was wrong. I modified fullVersionHistory so I can specify the oldid to start fetching from. I also changed the regex to \{\{GA\|(.*?)\}\} so it should only match {{GA}}. Thanks, LegoKontribsTalkM 23:10, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} LegoKontribsTalkM 05:20, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial (24 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – Go ahead and clear out the category. — madman 04:19, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Trial complete. Edits are in the latest contributions, all of the oldids the bot found were correct when I reviewed them. LegoKontribsTalkM 04:42, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
 Approved. — madman 05:16, 25 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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