Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, supervised
Programming Language(s): C#, current source code is here
Function Overview: Helps to reduce the backlog at Category:Biography articles without listas parameter.
Edit period(s): Not quite sure how to describe this yet. Probably "on demand, probably weekly or twice a week" would probably be the best way to describe it right now. I'll elaborate more in the Function Details section.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: This is a bot that runs under AWB. It traverses the list of articles in the Biography articles without listas parameter category. These pages are, by definition, articles that have a WPBiography tag, but do not have a listas attribute as part of that tag. The bot does the following things with the page:
As to the edit periods, apparently AWB's list of articles that it will work on is limited to 25,000 articles, and this category has a backlog of over 300,000 pages. I've brought this up on the AWB feature request page, however, with this limit in place, it would only do a large amount of good the first time around, and any subsequent runs after that would probably tax the Wiki servers more than the good that it would do.
Call me naive, but is there any reason why the WPBiography listas parameter should have priority over other tags on the page? There's not really a hierarchy of projects. Q T C 00:51, 13 March 2009 (UTC) reply
To answer the first point, about singling out WP Biog, from what I have read in the discussions about project banners:
As for the other points:
When this bot is perfected or its results monitored very closely it woud be a great help in eliminating a major problem and keeping the problem from being more than a minor irritation.
Extrapolating from the test as an assisted editing tool, it should fix about 18,000 pages. If it can only do half that many we should all be thrilled.
How many pages did it look at in the 20-edit trial in order to find 20 that it could fix?
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, supervised
Programming Language(s): C#, current source code is here
Function Overview: Helps to reduce the backlog at Category:Biography articles without listas parameter.
Edit period(s): Not quite sure how to describe this yet. Probably "on demand, probably weekly or twice a week" would probably be the best way to describe it right now. I'll elaborate more in the Function Details section.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: This is a bot that runs under AWB. It traverses the list of articles in the Biography articles without listas parameter category. These pages are, by definition, articles that have a WPBiography tag, but do not have a listas attribute as part of that tag. The bot does the following things with the page:
As to the edit periods, apparently AWB's list of articles that it will work on is limited to 25,000 articles, and this category has a backlog of over 300,000 pages. I've brought this up on the AWB feature request page, however, with this limit in place, it would only do a large amount of good the first time around, and any subsequent runs after that would probably tax the Wiki servers more than the good that it would do.
Call me naive, but is there any reason why the WPBiography listas parameter should have priority over other tags on the page? There's not really a hierarchy of projects. Q T C 00:51, 13 March 2009 (UTC) reply
To answer the first point, about singling out WP Biog, from what I have read in the discussions about project banners:
As for the other points:
When this bot is perfected or its results monitored very closely it woud be a great help in eliminating a major problem and keeping the problem from being more than a minor irritation.
Extrapolating from the test as an assisted editing tool, it should fix about 18,000 pages. If it can only do half that many we should all be thrilled.
How many pages did it look at in the 20-edit trial in order to find 20 that it could fix?