Operator: TheMagikCow ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 15:59, Monday, January 2, 2017 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python (utilising the MediaWiki API and PyWikiBot)
Source code available: --
Function overview: Will add the {{pp}}
template to protected pages that do not have them.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Add_protection_templates_to_recently_protected_articles
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: 5/day (Guess!) Initial run will be higher to catch backlog ~5000.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): ? Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No
Function details: Gets all the protected pages and scans to check if they have the appropriate padlock in the top corner. If they do not, the bot will add one. Many pages (~5000) have been returned that need fixing, and this is an ongoing issue. See here for some diffs at the request.
Do you have a breakdown in the protection levels that you want to deal with? (e.g. FP, TP, ECP, SP, PC). As far as FP pages, that would require an admin bot and an administrator to be the operator. — xaosflux Talk 18:09, 2 January 2017 (UTC) reply
I also think that depending on its permissions, this might also need to take care when it comes to PC pages (which could be active), as the marginal edit just to add the icon can, depending on the bot's permissions, accept pending changes automatically. -- slakr\ talk / 01:30, 7 January 2017 (UTC) reply
A couple of questions/points of discussion. Firstly, this bot would fetch the list of protected pages and add the corresponding padlock template. Can this bot do the reverse, removing the padlock from unprotected pages (likely because a protection expired) if you fed it the list of pages which have a padlock template instead of the list of protected pages?
Secondly, could we get an admin and experienced bot user to sign on as an additional operator so that fully protected pages can also be addressed, at least for the first run? This might be more trouble than it's worth, but seems like it's worth talking about. Tazerdadog ( talk) 09:40, 9 January 2017 (UTC) reply
Can we get this up and running? TheMagikCow ( talk) 17:56, 14 January 2017 (UTC) reply
Trial complete. The trial is finished - 40 edits have been made. The contributions are here and some example diffs are [1] and [2]. TheMagikCow ( talk) 11:38, 22 January 2017 (UTC) reply
It would be great if approved for the bot to be bot flagged as it would speed up the API queries. TheMagikCow ( talk) 17:38, 26 January 2017 (UTC) reply
Operator: TheMagikCow ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 15:59, Monday, January 2, 2017 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python (utilising the MediaWiki API and PyWikiBot)
Source code available: --
Function overview: Will add the {{pp}}
template to protected pages that do not have them.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Add_protection_templates_to_recently_protected_articles
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: 5/day (Guess!) Initial run will be higher to catch backlog ~5000.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): ? Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No
Function details: Gets all the protected pages and scans to check if they have the appropriate padlock in the top corner. If they do not, the bot will add one. Many pages (~5000) have been returned that need fixing, and this is an ongoing issue. See here for some diffs at the request.
Do you have a breakdown in the protection levels that you want to deal with? (e.g. FP, TP, ECP, SP, PC). As far as FP pages, that would require an admin bot and an administrator to be the operator. — xaosflux Talk 18:09, 2 January 2017 (UTC) reply
I also think that depending on its permissions, this might also need to take care when it comes to PC pages (which could be active), as the marginal edit just to add the icon can, depending on the bot's permissions, accept pending changes automatically. -- slakr\ talk / 01:30, 7 January 2017 (UTC) reply
A couple of questions/points of discussion. Firstly, this bot would fetch the list of protected pages and add the corresponding padlock template. Can this bot do the reverse, removing the padlock from unprotected pages (likely because a protection expired) if you fed it the list of pages which have a padlock template instead of the list of protected pages?
Secondly, could we get an admin and experienced bot user to sign on as an additional operator so that fully protected pages can also be addressed, at least for the first run? This might be more trouble than it's worth, but seems like it's worth talking about. Tazerdadog ( talk) 09:40, 9 January 2017 (UTC) reply
Can we get this up and running? TheMagikCow ( talk) 17:56, 14 January 2017 (UTC) reply
Trial complete. The trial is finished - 40 edits have been made. The contributions are here and some example diffs are [1] and [2]. TheMagikCow ( talk) 11:38, 22 January 2017 (UTC) reply
It would be great if approved for the bot to be bot flagged as it would speed up the API queries. TheMagikCow ( talk) 17:38, 26 January 2017 (UTC) reply