Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Tigraan-testbot
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Approved.
Operator: Tigraan (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 17:57, Sunday, June 25, 2017 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised or Manual
Programming language(s): Python 3
Source code available: Github
Function overview: Notifies the original poster (OP) of a Wikipedia:Teahouse thread that was archived by lowercase sigmabot III.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse/Archive_14#Special_archival_bot_that_notifies_new_users (which itself followed a suggestion from earlier in Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse/Archive_14#Teahouse_archiving) establishes the basic consensus for the bot. In a follow-up we came to a consensus to notify every non-blocked user, even IP editors and editors will lots of edits / advanced userrights.
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: ~20/day (depends on the traffic at Wikipedia:Teahouse)
Namespace(s): User talk pages exclusively, except maybe a dedicated logging page in the bot's userspace.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes (posting is done by Pywikibot, which obeys it).
Function details: The bot parses the page history of Wikipedia:Teahouse to find the last archival edit (e.g. this) and the corresponding threads ("image upload wikimedia commons issue of copyright", "im about to loose my article, please help", etc.). It attempts to match each threads to its creation by an edit with edit summary "(Foo): new section", and identifies the thread's OP by the author of the creating edit. The edit summary of the archival edit is parsed to determine the relevant archive(s) (there one or two archive links usually); the archive(s) is parsed to create a complete link (correct archive + anchor) for each archive thread. Once all this is gathered, the bot posts a notification through this template for each of the archived threads that could be matched, provided the user exists, is not blocked, and has not opted out (the latter is taken care of by Pywikibot).
You may take a look at User_talk:Tigraan-testbot/THA_log which is where the notifications went in my last testing phase before coming here (I used test.wikipedia before but I could not substitute the template there). add_text's always
flag is currently off which makes it ask for confirmation before each edit, but I would prefer to run it supervised (flag on).
The endgame plan is to merge the functionality into HostBot's codebase (maintainer Jtmorgan) and run it as a cron job. (EDIT 18:07, 25 June 2017 (UTC): just to be clear, the idea is to run the task supervised or manual under Tigraan-testbot for a trial period, and if all is well to convert it to a HostBot task.)[reply]
Discussion
[edit]- Regarding this config file-related concern, have you tried putting the configuration file in your home directory (specifically, $HOME/.pywikibot on Mac/Linux and %HOME%\.pywikibot on Windows)? Enterprisey (talk!) 03:36, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- I tried a lot of things, but not that particular one - I will give it a shot before running the trial. Thanks for the tip. (I am not a fantastic Python coder, and I did not find PWB's manual pages very clear, to be frank). TigraanClick here to contact me 11:34, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- It worked, yay! Thanks. TigraanClick here to contact me 19:58, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- I tried a lot of things, but not that particular one - I will give it a shot before running the trial. Thanks for the tip. (I am not a fantastic Python coder, and I did not find PWB's manual pages very clear, to be frank). TigraanClick here to contact me 11:34, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial (50 edits or 5 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux Talk 03:59, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Probably too much detail of how the test run went. Will post a summary once over. TigraanClick here to contact me 22:48, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Trial complete. I failed at counting before running the last test and the bot made a total of 51 edits - I apologize for that.
The bot did not make any erroneous notifications or exaggerated resource requests during the trial that I am aware of. I changed the codebase slightly during testing, in order to:
- remove leading and trailing spaces when matching thread names
- query the full revisions of the last 10 days at Wikipedia:Teahouse via mw:API:Revisions'
rvcontinue
parameter - change the edit summary left by the bot
I believe the bot is good to go technically. TigraanClick here to contact me 14:23, 2 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Approved. — xaosflux Talk 15:41, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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