Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 10

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Yobot 10

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Operator: Magioladitis

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, supervised for most of the edits

Programming language(s): AWB + KingbotK plugin

Source code available: Yes

Function overview:

• Inheriting class from other project to WikiProject Biography
  • (Additional) Minor cleanup to talk pages

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Task has been done by Xenobot Mk for some time. Check User:Xenobot Mk V/process. BetacommandBot has been doing the same years ago before the auto=inherit was adopted.

Edit period(s): Often, depends on my time

Estimated number of pages affected: -

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: Yobot is already adding living and work-groups parameters to WPBiography if missing. This task will enable it to add class too. This request is done after a request to Yobot's talk page by xeno as can been seen in User talk:Yobot#Start inheriting classes whilst you tag.

Task has been running for long enough time to have consensus (subject has been discussed in WikiProject Biography in the past) and be accurate.

After that the only parameters of WPBiography, Yobot is not dealing with will be listas (ListasBot deals with that) and the various priorities.

With the minor cleanup part I would like, additionally, to extend some stuff already done by KingbotK plugin. AWB+KingbotK right now move {{skip to talk}} and {{talk header}} on the top following instructions of WP:TPL. Moreover, the rename WPBS and WPB to their full names (WikiProjectBannerShell and WikiProject Banner) to help new editors. (Note: This is not in contradiction with WP:NOTBROKEN which deals with piped links and not banner templates). This procedure is done for years. My addition is the following: I ll load a lost with about 40-50 projects that their shortcut names are too small for understanding what they are about and bypass them. For example WPMA to WikiProject Middle Ages and WPE to WikiProject England. This part will be done only in addition to bot's main tasks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:14, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

• I would like to see the expansion of redirects only done when other more substantive changes are made, other than that, this looks good to go. Having Yobot auto-inherit while it does other things will help keep Category:Unassessed biography articles around a svelte 100k members. –xeno^talk 13:36, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

The expansion will be done only as a secondary task. Check this one. Addition of living=yes and expansions. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:36, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Excellent - I have no concerns then. –xeno^talk 18:38, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

• Agree with Xeon that adding auto-inherit task is useful. Bot already running, operator responds quickly and politely to problems and has set up a talk page shut off. Other than Xeno's concern, I see no problems with this moving forward quickly-my opinion only. --IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 18:37, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Speedily Approved. I too agree :). Make sure that the separate projects want you to auto inherit, and as xeno says, only expand the template redirects if the bot is editing the page anyway. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 17:05, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

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