Operator: Edibobb ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 05:01, Friday, March 29, 2019 ( UTC)
This will edit pages created by qbugbot 2, updating references, photos, common names, and a few minor edits. Not all changes will be made to all pages, and some pages will not be changed.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): vb.net
Source code available: Yes. I will update User:Qbugbot/source before the first test.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): There have been some comments, requests, and edits over the past year that have motivated to do this, but I have not requested a consensus on ToL. I think it will be non-controversial.
Edit period(s): 8-24 hours per day.
Estimated number of pages affected: 17,000
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details:
Qbugbot2 created around 18,000 pages about a year ago. I'd like to make corrections and updates to these pages. These changes are a result of comments and page edits. Edits made to these pages since they were created will be preserved. The first 100+ edits by this bot will be reviewed manually.
1. "Further reading" and "External link" references will be updated, and in most cases cut back or eliminated. Any references in Further reading and External links that were created with the page will be removed and replaced with the new references from the current qbugbot database. This will provide fewer and more specific references in these areas. Any reference added by other editors will be retained as is. References are matched by title, or by authors and year. This item will affect most pages, and has been the source of most negative comments about qbugbot articles.
2. If the prose, infobox, and inline refererences have not been edited since an article was created, it will be updated with the following changes:
3. Photos will be added if they are available and not already on the page. This will affect a minority of pages. The Photos have been manually reviewed.
4. Unnecessary orphan and underlinked tags will be removed.
5. External link to Wikimedia commons will be updated to handle disambig links properly, without displaying the "(beetle)" in something like "Adelina (beetle)"
6. The formatting of many references has been improved, correcting errors, adding doi's, etc. These will be updated in most cases. If the references has been edited since creation, it will not be changed.
Here is an example of a page editing manually using bugbot 3 content: Muellerianella
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Since I fixed a crapton of those citations myself, I'm rather enthusiastic about qbugbot cleaning up after its own mess. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 05:25, 9 April 2019 (UTC) reply
Also, see...
Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 05:42, 17 April 2019 (UTC) reply
@ Edibobb: what's the status on this? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 00:55, 22 August 2019 (UTC) reply
Approved. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 17:47, 22 September 2019 (UTC) reply
Operator: Edibobb ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 05:01, Friday, March 29, 2019 ( UTC)
This will edit pages created by qbugbot 2, updating references, photos, common names, and a few minor edits. Not all changes will be made to all pages, and some pages will not be changed.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): vb.net
Source code available: Yes. I will update User:Qbugbot/source before the first test.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): There have been some comments, requests, and edits over the past year that have motivated to do this, but I have not requested a consensus on ToL. I think it will be non-controversial.
Edit period(s): 8-24 hours per day.
Estimated number of pages affected: 17,000
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details:
Qbugbot2 created around 18,000 pages about a year ago. I'd like to make corrections and updates to these pages. These changes are a result of comments and page edits. Edits made to these pages since they were created will be preserved. The first 100+ edits by this bot will be reviewed manually.
1. "Further reading" and "External link" references will be updated, and in most cases cut back or eliminated. Any references in Further reading and External links that were created with the page will be removed and replaced with the new references from the current qbugbot database. This will provide fewer and more specific references in these areas. Any reference added by other editors will be retained as is. References are matched by title, or by authors and year. This item will affect most pages, and has been the source of most negative comments about qbugbot articles.
2. If the prose, infobox, and inline refererences have not been edited since an article was created, it will be updated with the following changes:
3. Photos will be added if they are available and not already on the page. This will affect a minority of pages. The Photos have been manually reviewed.
4. Unnecessary orphan and underlinked tags will be removed.
5. External link to Wikimedia commons will be updated to handle disambig links properly, without displaying the "(beetle)" in something like "Adelina (beetle)"
6. The formatting of many references has been improved, correcting errors, adding doi's, etc. These will be updated in most cases. If the references has been edited since creation, it will not be changed.
Here is an example of a page editing manually using bugbot 3 content: Muellerianella
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Since I fixed a crapton of those citations myself, I'm rather enthusiastic about qbugbot cleaning up after its own mess. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 05:25, 9 April 2019 (UTC) reply
Also, see...
Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 05:42, 17 April 2019 (UTC) reply
@ Edibobb: what's the status on this? Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 00:55, 22 August 2019 (UTC) reply
Approved. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 17:47, 22 September 2019 (UTC) reply