Operator: Mike Peel ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 21:12, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Function overview: Synchronise short descriptions with Wikidata
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): python (pywikibot)
Source code available: on bitbucket
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:Short_description#Copying_short_descriptions_to_Wikidata
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: TBC, there are 2.1 million articles with local shortdescriptions but perhaps quite a lot of those will be the same.
Namespace(s): Most namespaces
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Function details: The bot looks for articles where we have no short description, or where the short description does not match the Wikidata description beyond capitalisation differences. It then has two options:
This is the opposite of d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Pi bot 14, at least for option 2, although option 1 is complementary. The code is preliminary, I'll improve it to match the description soon. Related discussions are at d:Wikidata:Project_chat#Importing_short_descriptions_from_enwp and Wikipedia_talk:Short_description#Copying_short_descriptions_to_Wikidata. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 21:12, 3 August 2020 (UTC) reply
I personally would be pretty pissed if my descriptions would be overwritten by a bot based on content taken from another project). For point #2, since any short description added here was manually added by someone and then (hopefully) vetted by other editors, it's probably safe to assume it's good enough. I don't see any value replacing it. This proposal also will probably cause inconsistencies with infoboxes which handle the short description. I'm also not sure how much #1 is worth it when it's done by a bot with no manual vetting. -- Gonnym ( talk) 22:12, 3 August 2020 (UTC) reply
Unless I am misunderstanding the proposal, item 2 is probably not a good idea, and probably fails WP:CONTEXTBOT. Many short descriptions on Wikidata are far too long to comply with en.WP's guidance. See this import and this import, for example, where I had to shorten the Wikidata descriptions. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 20:41, 5 August 2020 (UTC) reply
Just to note that the RfC was closed today [1], with consensus against both options as they stand. I'm withdrawing the second option accordingly. I'm exploring alternative options for the first, with @ MichaelMaggs: at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Short_descriptions#Bot_proposal_to_create_short_descriptions_from_scratch,_for_articles_requiring_one, it's up to the community here if you want to close this request now or wait for a revised proposal, probably later this month (I can start a new bot request if needed). Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 18:12, 5 September 2020 (UTC) reply
Operator: Mike Peel ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 21:12, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Function overview: Synchronise short descriptions with Wikidata
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): python (pywikibot)
Source code available: on bitbucket
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:Short_description#Copying_short_descriptions_to_Wikidata
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: TBC, there are 2.1 million articles with local shortdescriptions but perhaps quite a lot of those will be the same.
Namespace(s): Most namespaces
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Function details: The bot looks for articles where we have no short description, or where the short description does not match the Wikidata description beyond capitalisation differences. It then has two options:
This is the opposite of d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Pi bot 14, at least for option 2, although option 1 is complementary. The code is preliminary, I'll improve it to match the description soon. Related discussions are at d:Wikidata:Project_chat#Importing_short_descriptions_from_enwp and Wikipedia_talk:Short_description#Copying_short_descriptions_to_Wikidata. Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 21:12, 3 August 2020 (UTC) reply
I personally would be pretty pissed if my descriptions would be overwritten by a bot based on content taken from another project). For point #2, since any short description added here was manually added by someone and then (hopefully) vetted by other editors, it's probably safe to assume it's good enough. I don't see any value replacing it. This proposal also will probably cause inconsistencies with infoboxes which handle the short description. I'm also not sure how much #1 is worth it when it's done by a bot with no manual vetting. -- Gonnym ( talk) 22:12, 3 August 2020 (UTC) reply
Unless I am misunderstanding the proposal, item 2 is probably not a good idea, and probably fails WP:CONTEXTBOT. Many short descriptions on Wikidata are far too long to comply with en.WP's guidance. See this import and this import, for example, where I had to shorten the Wikidata descriptions. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 20:41, 5 August 2020 (UTC) reply
Just to note that the RfC was closed today [1], with consensus against both options as they stand. I'm withdrawing the second option accordingly. I'm exploring alternative options for the first, with @ MichaelMaggs: at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Short_descriptions#Bot_proposal_to_create_short_descriptions_from_scratch,_for_articles_requiring_one, it's up to the community here if you want to close this request now or wait for a revised proposal, probably later this month (I can start a new bot request if needed). Thanks. Mike Peel ( talk) 18:12, 5 September 2020 (UTC) reply