Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Numberguy6Bot
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Operator: Numberguy6 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 15:48, Sunday, April 21, 2024 (UTC)
Function overview: Sorting Template:Expand language by topic category
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: Self-written; not available yet
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: 20,000
Namespace(s): Main
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Goes through pages marked with Template:Expand language, and sorts them by topic, based on categories that the page is in (e.g. "Living people").
Discussion[edit]
Sort where? Could you please give an example of an edit this bot would make? Primefac (talk) 08:02, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- [1] Numberguy6 (talk) 15:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- How would it categorise a page such as 1976 in Venezuela? Primefac (talk) 11:58, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- My bot would not categorize all articles. It would only do the ones where the topic is obvious, e.g. articles in Category:Living people. Numberguy6 (talk) 13:13, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 11:33, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- All contributions are under Special:Contributions/Numberguy6Bot. Numberguy6 (talk) 15:38, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
Trial complete. Numberguy6 (talk) 17:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)- I have now fixed the bot so that, if the template contains a blank or invalid "topic" parameter, the bot deletes it (instead of letting there be duplicate parameters). Numberguy6 (talk) 16:01, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Approved for extended trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. I have restored the original state for the following five pages; please run the bot on them again to demonstrate the coding changes you made work as intended: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Primefac (talk) 12:54, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- Trial complete. Numberguy6 (talk) 16:16, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- Um... that's more than five edits. Are the five pages I asked for in there? I only see the fourth. Primefac (talk) 16:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- 1 2 3 4 5 Numberguy6 (talk) 16:31, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Primefac: I did more than five edits because I wanted the bot to cycle through the articles in alphabetical order, like it normally does, to make sure there weren't any bugs there. Numberguy6 (talk) 16:17, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Um... that's more than five edits. Are the five pages I asked for in there? I only see the fourth. Primefac (talk) 16:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- My bot would not categorize all articles. It would only do the ones where the topic is obvious, e.g. articles in Category:Living people. Numberguy6 (talk) 13:13, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
- How would it categorise a page such as 1976 in Venezuela? Primefac (talk) 11:58, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
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