Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/CategoryCleaner.pm
Function overview: Clean up miscategorized pages
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:VPT#Category:Redirects
Edit period(s): periodically
Estimated number of pages affected: 956 to start, then depending on the rate of pages mis-added.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: Certain categories have easily machine-testable bright-line criteria for excluding certain classes of pages. For example, Category:Redirects should contain only pages and categories about redirects; it explicitly states that it should not contain any actual redirects. But due to people not reading the category header text, it currently contains 956 redirects. This task will periodically check that category for redirects and remove any that are found. If any similar situations are brought to my attention, I intend to do the same for them.
Looks useful and straightforward for this particular miscategorization. Will you be explaining the to the misactegorizing editor what was done to prevent the bot being reverted? -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 08:34, 14 November 2009 (UTC) reply
{{ BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Anyone? Anomie ⚔ 03:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC) reply
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/CategoryCleaner.pm
Function overview: Clean up miscategorized pages
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:VPT#Category:Redirects
Edit period(s): periodically
Estimated number of pages affected: 956 to start, then depending on the rate of pages mis-added.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: Certain categories have easily machine-testable bright-line criteria for excluding certain classes of pages. For example, Category:Redirects should contain only pages and categories about redirects; it explicitly states that it should not contain any actual redirects. But due to people not reading the category header text, it currently contains 956 redirects. This task will periodically check that category for redirects and remove any that are found. If any similar situations are brought to my attention, I intend to do the same for them.
Looks useful and straightforward for this particular miscategorization. Will you be explaining the to the misactegorizing editor what was done to prevent the bot being reverted? -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 08:34, 14 November 2009 (UTC) reply
{{ BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Anyone? Anomie ⚔ 03:13, 2 December 2009 (UTC) reply