Operator: Selket
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): pywikipedia and python
Function Summary: Fixes membership in redirect categories. For example, replaces Category:Living People with Category:Living people.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Full run daily, partials every six hours.
Edit rate requested: 12 edits per minute
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): It was listed as pending after the previous approval, but I don't think it ever got turned on. Yes
Function Details: The bot has two modes, full and partial. The bot retrieves all of the subcategories in Category:Wikipedia category redirects (full mode) or Category:Often-populated Wikipedia category redirects (partial mode). It then looks in each sub category (these are categories that should have no members) and looks for the correct category in the {{ category redirect}} template (see: here for example). The bot then edits the individual pages to replace membership in the incorrect category with membership in the correct category.
As per the template's instruction page there are other templates ({{ Category redirect2}} and {{ Category redirect3}}) that will cause the bot not to move pages. Sample log output is also available. After a few supervised runs, I will run this as a cron job with full runs daily and partials every six hours.
There was a bot that had this functionality previously, but it's maintainer has left.
The log reports that the bot is flagged. ST47 Talk 23:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC) reply
I can confirm that RobotG was doing this successfully before (I think in slightly broader terms, if I recall conversations with its operator correctly), so the principle behind this seems well-established, and I'd favour proceeding to trial. Alai 02:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC) reply
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Sorry for the delay - requests for additional tasks can tend to drop off the radar. As I understand it, some BAG members (ie - myself :)), were planning to take a look at the request, but at the time there was an outstanding question on it. Anyway, on to business - trial for up to 100 edits. Thanks,
Mart
inp23 23:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
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Operator: Selket
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): pywikipedia and python
Function Summary: Fixes membership in redirect categories. For example, replaces Category:Living People with Category:Living people.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Full run daily, partials every six hours.
Edit rate requested: 12 edits per minute
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): It was listed as pending after the previous approval, but I don't think it ever got turned on. Yes
Function Details: The bot has two modes, full and partial. The bot retrieves all of the subcategories in Category:Wikipedia category redirects (full mode) or Category:Often-populated Wikipedia category redirects (partial mode). It then looks in each sub category (these are categories that should have no members) and looks for the correct category in the {{ category redirect}} template (see: here for example). The bot then edits the individual pages to replace membership in the incorrect category with membership in the correct category.
As per the template's instruction page there are other templates ({{ Category redirect2}} and {{ Category redirect3}}) that will cause the bot not to move pages. Sample log output is also available. After a few supervised runs, I will run this as a cron job with full runs daily and partials every six hours.
There was a bot that had this functionality previously, but it's maintainer has left.
The log reports that the bot is flagged. ST47 Talk 23:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC) reply
I can confirm that RobotG was doing this successfully before (I think in slightly broader terms, if I recall conversations with its operator correctly), so the principle behind this seems well-established, and I'd favour proceeding to trial. Alai 02:41, 20 April 2007 (UTC) reply
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Sorry for the delay - requests for additional tasks can tend to drop off the radar. As I understand it, some BAG members (ie - myself :)), were planning to take a look at the request, but at the time there was an outstanding question on it. Anyway, on to business - trial for up to 100 edits. Thanks,
Mart
inp23 23:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
reply