Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Summary: Correct reference syntax errors and attempt to recover orphaned refs from page history
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: The bot will process mainspace pages in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to correct some common errors, as described on the bot's user page. The most interesting correction is that the bot will detect orphaned refs (i.e. named references without content) and attempt to find content for them in the page history. The bot will process each mainspace page in the category only once per revision, and once it has scanned the page history for a particular orphaned reference and not found a replacement it will not bother searching for that reference again.
I am open to suggestions as to how often to check the category for additions once the bot has cleaned up all of the errors it knows how to handle. Anomie ⚔ 03:55, 20 August 2008 (UTC) reply
I copied this list of tasks from the bot userpage. – Quadell ( talk) 14:00, 20 August 2008 (UTC) reply
name
name
and group
from <ref> and <references>That last one looks pretty tricky. Is the code ready? The others look pretty easy to understand. – Quadell ( talk) 14:00, 20 August 2008 (UTC) reply
{{ BAGAssistanceNeeded}}
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. BJ Talk 19:16, 26 August 2008 (UTC) reply
Trial complete. All the edits are contiguous in the bot's contribs. [1] Anomie ⚔ 21:39, 26 August 2008 (UTC) reply
{{ BAGAssistanceNeeded}}
I'd say five minutes, ClueBot triggers within 10 seconds, Hugglers within a minute usually. BJ Talk 12:26, 1 September 2008 (UTC) reply
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Summary: Correct reference syntax errors and attempt to recover orphaned refs from page history
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: The bot will process mainspace pages in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to correct some common errors, as described on the bot's user page. The most interesting correction is that the bot will detect orphaned refs (i.e. named references without content) and attempt to find content for them in the page history. The bot will process each mainspace page in the category only once per revision, and once it has scanned the page history for a particular orphaned reference and not found a replacement it will not bother searching for that reference again.
I am open to suggestions as to how often to check the category for additions once the bot has cleaned up all of the errors it knows how to handle. Anomie ⚔ 03:55, 20 August 2008 (UTC) reply
I copied this list of tasks from the bot userpage. – Quadell ( talk) 14:00, 20 August 2008 (UTC) reply
name
name
and group
from <ref> and <references>That last one looks pretty tricky. Is the code ready? The others look pretty easy to understand. – Quadell ( talk) 14:00, 20 August 2008 (UTC) reply
{{ BAGAssistanceNeeded}}
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. BJ Talk 19:16, 26 August 2008 (UTC) reply
Trial complete. All the edits are contiguous in the bot's contribs. [1] Anomie ⚔ 21:39, 26 August 2008 (UTC) reply
{{ BAGAssistanceNeeded}}
I'd say five minutes, ClueBot triggers within 10 seconds, Hugglers within a minute usually. BJ Talk 12:26, 1 September 2008 (UTC) reply