Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 11

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Yobot 11

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Operator: Magioladitis

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, supervised

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: It's AWB auto-tagger. Code is available

Function overview: Auto-untagging of orphans / Auto(un)tagging for wikify, deadend, uncategorised and remove expand tags if articles are stubs.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Per my message in Wikipedia_talk:Orphan#AWB_and_Orphans, AWB in the past tagged a lot of articles as orphans incorrectly. The bug was found and fixed (version 5.0.0.1). Orphanage was a backlog and need help. See also my message in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orphanage.

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: It will run though 152,851 articles and affect minimum 4,000 according to my estimation based on a test run.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: I will run AWB with genfixes off. Only auto-tagger will be activated. This means that the only actions will be: Tagging and untagging with: {{wikify}}, {{deadend}}, {{uncategorised}} and removing {{orphan}} (if article proven not orphan), {{expand}} (if article is a stub -per expand's usage) and {{stub}} if article is not a stub. It will only run in the subcategories of Category:Orphaned articles and it will be one time run. Since the AWB' bug is fixed no more semi-automated edits will produce a bug.

I already did a test run as Magioladitis and no problems occurred. Following previous concerns about AWB and stubs I 'll check all edits that affected stub tags. AWB's Genfixes will be turned off.

In my intention is to run the procedure only once. I ll re-run it in case Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage asks me to. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:56, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Discussion

Can you explain how a bot can determine that an article needs to be wikified? --Jc3s5h (talk) 00:14, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

The method AWB currently uses is that adds the {{wikify}} to articles that have less than 3 links or the number of links is less than 0.25% of article's size. As far as I know there were no complains of AWB incorrectly tagging articles with wikify. I f there are suggestions how the method can be improved I would like to read it. Moreover, I already have requested that AWB does only part of the auto-tagging by user's request. It's a good chance that this will be implemented at some point to enable us to have flexibility. -- Magioladitis (talk) 03:10, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Considering that the method you use specifically identifies a dead end article, it would be better to only use {{Dead end}}, because the Wikify template could be applied for several other reasons too (for example, a plain text article copied from some public domain source, with no Wiki markup at all). In the absence of any talk page discussion, the reader is left wondering why the Wikify template is there. --Jc3s5h (talk) 04:24, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

AWB will add a {{deadend}} in the case the article has no links but I understand your concerns. Wikify is not only about links. I 'll discuss changes to the code with AWB team. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:43, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

I can run a modified version of AWB that won't add/remove wikify. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:42, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

On hold. Some hours ago I was reported that orphan tagging is misbehaving again. Probably due to API changes. I put this BRFA on hold until problem is solved. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:26, 23 January 2010 (UTC) Resume. Bug fixed. More details in WP:AWB/B. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:03, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. harej 00:54, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Trial complete. Yobot ran in Category:Orphaned articles from October 2006. It scanned 922 pages and made 50 edits.

• In 47 cases it removed orphan tag only
• In 1 case it removed orphan tag and stub tags
• In 2 case it removed stub tags
• In 1 case it added deadend tag

Just to be in the safe side, I ran with AWB v. 5.0.0.1, rev6152, skipping in case a wikify tag was there or AWB was trying to add it. It skipped 14 pages for this reason.

Procedure started at 01:34, 29 January 2010 and finished at 02:01, 29 January 2010.

Some comments:

• I expect the proportion of article to be fixed to get bigger in articles with newer tags. More than 50% of the orphans were tagged in February 2009.
• I am not completely satisfied with the result because I would like to follow the strict definition of WP:ORPHAN and exclude from count dab pages. This can't be done with the current software.

-- Magioladitis (talk) 02:05, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

PS I did 21 more just to finish the category. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:24, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

 Approved. ⇌ Jake Wartenberg 02:07, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

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