Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/The Anonybot

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The Anonybot

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

Time filed: 08:11, Saturday January 19, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): Objective-C (not a typical language for Wikipedia bots)

Source code available: Not yet, at least

Function overview: Removes {{Wikivoyage-inline}} from article pages and adds the voy (Wikivoyage) parameter to {{Sister project links}}.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 52#Move Wikivoyage links to sister project links?

Edit period(s): One time run (but may be ran again if necessary, of course)

Estimated number of pages affected: Up to 2700 according to the transclusion count of {{Wikivoyage-inline}}

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: The bot will edit articles of geographical places (counties, states, cities, etc.) that are in a list, possibly the list of articles that {{Wikivoyage-inline}} is transcluded in. {{Wikivoyage-inline}} will be completely removed from the External links section and the voy (Wikivoyage) template parameter will be added to a {{Sister project links}} in the same section. The reason this will be done is for consistency: Wikivoyage is now a Wikimedia project and is now included in {{Sister project links}}, along with the rest of the other projects. For an exact example of an edit, see this test (done by my test bot) or this real article edit (done by me as an example).

Discussion

Sounds reasonable. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 09:01, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

• Is your bot using the API? I'm not familiar with the API being able to handle Objective-C, which if I'm not mistaken is used by Apple, let alone C. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyberpower678 (talk • contribs) 14:20, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Any language can use the API as long it can make requests to webpages, which I imagine Objective-C can. I'm guessing Anonymouse had to write xyr own library though. Anonymouse, if you did write your own library/interface, please add it to mw:API:Client code. :) Legoktm (talk) 14:26, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
    • You learn new stuff everyday. Thanks again, Legoktm.—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 14:39, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I did have to right my own library, and it is using the API. I'll check out that page, Legoktm (thanks for the link). The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 16:47, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 17:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} The bot made its first edit, but now it keeps running into the captcha. If an admin marked it as confirmed (it's not autoconfirmed), would that help? The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 21:57, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

I have added the confirmed flag to the botn you shouldn't hit the captcha any more. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 22:12, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Addshore. The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 05:05, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

That shouldn't have been hitting the captcha anyway, external links to WMF sites shouldn't require a captcha. Fixed. Anomie⚔ 22:51, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Interesting... so I guess the bot helped discover a problem. The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 06:04, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

I am posting the results of the bot's trial while it edits at User:The Anonybot/List. The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 22:35, 20 January 2013 (UTC) No longer being used. The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 06:04, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

• Trial complete. The Anonymouse (talk | contribs) 06:04, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
•  Approved. MBisanz ^talk 22:55, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

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