Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot 16

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MusikBot 16

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

Time filed: 16:04, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Add a new row to Template:Articles lacking sources chart/data every week with the current size of Category:All articles lacking sources. This is used by the chart at {{articles lacking sources chart}}.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Ruby

Source code available: GitHub

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Special:Permalink/1009973605#An automagically updating chart for a given backlog category

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Namespace(s): Template

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details: Once a week, the bot will query for the size of Category:All articles lacking sources and add a new row to Template:Articles lacking sources chart/data (the data you see there at the time of writing was added manually). This is used to render a chart in {{articles lacking sources chart}}. That template will get transcluded atop Category:All articles lacking sources and possibly elsewhere (maybe somewhere at Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability, for instance). The idea is to encourage users to help tackle the backlog and reduce the size of Category:All articles lacking sources. We did not seek broader input on this idea but can if anyone feels it is needed.

Discussion

• This is one of the simplest bot tasks I've ever written. It gave the idea of making a general-purpose bot that can create datasets of the size of categories over time so that they can be used in charts. Basically, the idea is if editors working off another category want a chart like this, they'll be able to "sign up" for it without developer intervention, similar to how Community Tech bot 3 works. Let's see how this one-off task goes, and if people like it, I can start a discussion about a general purpose bot that will ultimately replace this one. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:04, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Approved for trial (10 edits or 21 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. OK to trial. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:11, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Withdrawn by operator. in favour of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot 17. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:26, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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