Time filed: 16:04, Monday September 12, 2011 ( UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/TagDater.pm
Function overview: When dating maintenance tags, if no undated tags are found in an article then check templates transcluded in the article.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): none
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Depends on how often people leave maintenance tags undated in templates, and whether other bots beat AnomieBOT to it.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: As approved in AnomieBOT 49, the bot dates maintenance tags in articles listed in Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month. I've noticed that many of the cases where the bot cannot find a maintenance tag to date are due to someone adding a maintenance tag to a navbox or other template transcluded in the page. It would make sense for the bot to check that, instead of requiring a human to do it.
Is the bot going to be fixing the problem of not using "<noinclude>" tags? Or just working around it. - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 17:22, 12 September 2011 (UTC) reply
{{fact}}
to {{fact|date=September 2011}}
and the like.
Anomie
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18:05, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
the {{
fact}}, then probably no one would ever see it.
Anomie
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18:42, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
replySo what does the bot do with such a tag included in some transcluded template? Does it notify someone, or do you just want to date it like all a regular dated maintenance template? Is it actually a valid use to have it transcluded, because I would think not? — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 18:40, 12 September 2011 (UTC) reply
|date=
.
Anomie
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01:01, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
replyAlright well it's painfully obvious that this is a slow task, and the bug rate is relatively high. How about you have the bot notify you (at say User:AnomieBot/Templates with potential for a bot edit or something) and then you could review the page and see if the edit should be done/would break stuff? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:47, 14 October 2011 (UTC) reply
<noinclude>
, and maybe categories would give a blank page, it's probably a broken shell for the template needing dating).
Anomie
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11:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
reply
This has been open since September last year, do we really need to continue the trial this long? Considering the very low edit rate, there is no risk of the bot editing and damaging hundreds of templates. Likewise, if the bot does make any errors, Anomie is a trusted and competent bot op, who can fix them without needing to be babysat by a BRFA. -- Chris 10:18, 15 January 2012 (UTC) reply
Time filed: 16:04, Monday September 12, 2011 ( UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/TagDater.pm
Function overview: When dating maintenance tags, if no undated tags are found in an article then check templates transcluded in the article.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): none
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Depends on how often people leave maintenance tags undated in templates, and whether other bots beat AnomieBOT to it.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: As approved in AnomieBOT 49, the bot dates maintenance tags in articles listed in Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month. I've noticed that many of the cases where the bot cannot find a maintenance tag to date are due to someone adding a maintenance tag to a navbox or other template transcluded in the page. It would make sense for the bot to check that, instead of requiring a human to do it.
Is the bot going to be fixing the problem of not using "<noinclude>" tags? Or just working around it. - Jarry1250 Weasel? Discuss. 17:22, 12 September 2011 (UTC) reply
{{fact}}
to {{fact|date=September 2011}}
and the like.
Anomie
⚔
18:05, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
the {{
fact}}, then probably no one would ever see it.
Anomie
⚔
18:42, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
replySo what does the bot do with such a tag included in some transcluded template? Does it notify someone, or do you just want to date it like all a regular dated maintenance template? Is it actually a valid use to have it transcluded, because I would think not? — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 18:40, 12 September 2011 (UTC) reply
|date=
.
Anomie
⚔
01:01, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
replyAlright well it's painfully obvious that this is a slow task, and the bug rate is relatively high. How about you have the bot notify you (at say User:AnomieBot/Templates with potential for a bot edit or something) and then you could review the page and see if the edit should be done/would break stuff? Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:47, 14 October 2011 (UTC) reply
<noinclude>
, and maybe categories would give a blank page, it's probably a broken shell for the template needing dating).
Anomie
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11:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
reply
This has been open since September last year, do we really need to continue the trial this long? Considering the very low edit rate, there is no risk of the bot editing and damaging hundreds of templates. Likewise, if the bot does make any errors, Anomie is a trusted and competent bot op, who can fix them without needing to be babysat by a BRFA. -- Chris 10:18, 15 January 2012 (UTC) reply