Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PonoRoboT

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PonoRoboT

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

Time filed: 18:00, Tuesday, May 30, 2023 (UTC)

Function overview: Update Croatian settlement infoboxes with 2021 Census data.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Fully supervised at first, then supervised on a random sample of edits (~10%) and all suspicious size changes.

Programming language(s): Python (my fork of mwparserfromhell; regex)

Source code available:

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Croatia#2021 census infobox update

Edit period(s): one time

Estimated number of pages affected: 3200

Namespace(s): Articles

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: There's been a 10–15% population decline since the 2011 Croatian census. I have a bot (nearly) ready to update {{Infobox settlement}} population parameters |population_total= (for settlements, municipalities and towns) and |population_urban= (for municipalities and towns). The same bot (editcount) and the same data have been used for 7000 new transclusions of :hr:Template:Croatian population data graph and, just recently, for 30 000 Wikidata QuickStatements. The bot will:

• update (or add) the two parameters, and update |population_as_of=
• in some articles, blank the values of other |population_…= parameters that have been previously used instead of the two
• replace the reference in |population_footnotes= with the newly created {{Template:Croatian Census 2021|S}}, and if the old named reference is used outside of the template replace it with the full (old) citation

My preliminary tests were Special:Diff/1156055989, Special:Diff/1156056334, Special:Diff/1156054662.

Discussion

• @Ponor: Hi. Where (and how) is the bot getting the updated census stats from? —usernamekiran (talk) 10:04, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

  @Usernamekiran: in September 2022 the statistics bureau published their final results for 6700+ settlements as one xslx file (subst'ing the beforementioned template): "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2021 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.

• It took some time to match their data to hrwiki article names and WD Qids, but I'm quite confident I got everything right. Ponor (talk) 10:43, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

  Thank you. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:47, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

• Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 08:32, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
• Trial complete. Link to relevant contributions No errors, no major issues encountered. Ponor (talk) 14:23, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

   Approved. Primefac (talk) 09:56, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

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