Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Thadius856AWB

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

Approved.

Thadius856AWB[edit]

Operator: Thadius856

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic once started, though closely supervised. Setup is manual and is on a per-run basis.

Programming Language(s): AutoWikiBrowser, version 3.0.6.1.

Function Summary: Massive tagging of talk pages with WikiProject banners.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Periodically, as needed.

Edit rate requested: At least 3 edits/min. Higher is better, as even a medium-sized WikiProject can contain 5,000+ articles.

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

Function Details: Mostly adds WikiProject banners to talk pages of appropriate articles using a list built from categories. For example, adding {{NFLproject}} to the talk page of every article in Category:National Football League players by team and subcategories (that doesn't already have it). A minority of edits may be used for replacing deprecated templates, automatic stub-classing (WP 1.0 assessment) of -stub}}'d articles, and the like.

Discussion[edit]

Do you have checks in there to ensure another WikiProject banner isn't already on the page? -- Tawker 15:32, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To ensure that the same banner is not already on the same page? Yes. To ensure that another project banner is not already on the same page? No, as it's not required, since articles can fall under the scope of multiple WikiProjects. For example, San Francisco International Airport is within the scope of the Airports, California and Architecture WikiProjects. :) thadius856_{talk|airports|neutrality} 22:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I assume this is intended to be "at wikiproject request", right? I'm a bit concerned about this being made fully automatic: the numerous existing bots already doing generally at least claim to be doing some sort of manual checking. At the very least, I'd want to see individually "vetting" of all the categories to be traversed (sometimes by the time one goes a couple of subcats deep one can really be scratching one's head). Alai 05:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it is not fully automatic. As I mentioned, I have to manually build the lists and review them myself, removing entries from other namespaces, ones that are glaringly obviously miscategorized, etc. The bot would be run under full supervision, with a page preview loading each time before submission.

I've been doing this for quite some time manually with AWB. In fact, if you look at my edit count, you can see just how bloated it is. The only difference this would make is that I don't have to wear out my finger hitting the "Submit" button each time and watch my rate count (due to the bot timer in the program). I'm not asking for a fully fledged bot here, just a little something to save my poor pointer finger a couple of clicks and streamline the process, as AWB won't allow such automation without a bot flag... understandable since such a powerful tool in inexperienced hands could wreak havoc with WP on a large scale. thadius856_{talk|airports|neutrality} 19:57, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bot trial run approved for the duration of one week. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 05:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. This bot will run with a flag. —Mets501 (talk) 21:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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