Operator: Robert Skyhawk ( talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: Run using AWB, whose parameters I can make available on request.
Function overview: Updates Good Articles in respect to {{ Good article}} template.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot request, Discussion regarding symbol usage
Edit period(s): Weekly, unless a large number of pages need tagging at a given time.
Estimated number of pages affected: All of the Good Articles; there are currently 39,916
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No
Function details: The decision was recently made to add {{
Good article}}, which displays
at the top of a page, to all of the
good articles. While users have already added the template to most of the GAs with AWB in semi-automated mode, there is a desire in the GA Project for a bot that would periodically check the Good articles; adding the template to those that don't have it, and removing the template from pages that are no longer Good articles. The bot would use
Category:Wikipedia good articles as a list of actual GAs, since the category is populated by {{
GA}}, which is put on talk pages of GAs and determines whether or not the article is actually a Good article. To check articles that use the template,
Category:Good articles is used, since it is populated by {{
Good article}}.
Robert Skyhawk ( T C B) 03:37, 18 June 2010 (UTC) reply
(outdent) Right now, getting all of the links on WP:GA, then removing those that are not mainspace, produces a list of 9277 pages, which is the exact number of Talk namespace pages in Category:Wikipedia good articles. This means that both methods are identically accurate. Robert Skyhawk ( T C B) 19:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC) reply
{{
BAGAssistanceNeeded}}
Am I ready for an approval? Since there are only about 11 pages that need modification (according to my calculations), I would request either a small trial (~5-10 articles) or direct approval without a trial. Thanks,
Robert Skyhawk (
T
C
B)
04:06, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
reply
Request Expired. Marking this as expired, I see one trial edits, but no comments from the operator, who should have got back from vacation >2 weeks ago. This request may be reopened at any time. For when/if it is, I should like to point out that AWB's list building feature would allow you to easily make a list of pages both in the category Wikipedia good articles, and linked to from WP:GA, without having to scan each page manually. -
Kingpin
13 (
talk)
10:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
reply
Operator: Robert Skyhawk ( talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: Run using AWB, whose parameters I can make available on request.
Function overview: Updates Good Articles in respect to {{ Good article}} template.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot request, Discussion regarding symbol usage
Edit period(s): Weekly, unless a large number of pages need tagging at a given time.
Estimated number of pages affected: All of the Good Articles; there are currently 39,916
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No
Function details: The decision was recently made to add {{
Good article}}, which displays
at the top of a page, to all of the
good articles. While users have already added the template to most of the GAs with AWB in semi-automated mode, there is a desire in the GA Project for a bot that would periodically check the Good articles; adding the template to those that don't have it, and removing the template from pages that are no longer Good articles. The bot would use
Category:Wikipedia good articles as a list of actual GAs, since the category is populated by {{
GA}}, which is put on talk pages of GAs and determines whether or not the article is actually a Good article. To check articles that use the template,
Category:Good articles is used, since it is populated by {{
Good article}}.
Robert Skyhawk ( T C B) 03:37, 18 June 2010 (UTC) reply
(outdent) Right now, getting all of the links on WP:GA, then removing those that are not mainspace, produces a list of 9277 pages, which is the exact number of Talk namespace pages in Category:Wikipedia good articles. This means that both methods are identically accurate. Robert Skyhawk ( T C B) 19:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC) reply
{{
BAGAssistanceNeeded}}
Am I ready for an approval? Since there are only about 11 pages that need modification (according to my calculations), I would request either a small trial (~5-10 articles) or direct approval without a trial. Thanks,
Robert Skyhawk (
T
C
B)
04:06, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
reply
Request Expired. Marking this as expired, I see one trial edits, but no comments from the operator, who should have got back from vacation >2 weeks ago. This request may be reopened at any time. For when/if it is, I should like to point out that AWB's list building feature would allow you to easily make a list of pages both in the category Wikipedia good articles, and linked to from WP:GA, without having to scan each page manually. -
Kingpin
13 (
talk)
10:01, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
reply