Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiProject Television Bot

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[edit] WikiProject Television Bot

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Operator: — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)}

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Completely automatic

Programming Language(s): PHP (uses Curl and SxWiki framework)

Function Summary: Updates task list for Television WikiProject.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Runs for about two hours every three days

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: The bot scans the lead section of every page in Category:WikiProject Television articles. It checks for {{Peer review}}, {{FAC}}, {{FAR}}, {{FLC}}, {{FTC}}, and {{FLRC}}. It then generates a list of what it detected, separating each task (FAC, PR, etc.) using a sub-header. The bot then replaces all contents on the task page with its new generated task list. Note: The task page, if this bot is approved, will be transcluded onto WP:TV, replacing the manually-edited (and sometimes inaccurate) list currently on the page. Before making this request, I ran the bot on an extremely limited run (about twenty articles), and the results are on the task page.

[edit] Discussion

I think User:Mathbot does something like this.

Anyway, you could also put the info on a subpage of the bot page, and transclude that page at the wikiproject. If you're only editing a bot subpage, and not doing a lot of edits (sounds like one edit every three days here), you don't really need a bot approval. If you want someone to look over the results, though, that's fine. Be aware that a lot of those templates have redirects, so you'll have to look for variations, like {{fac}} for {{FAC}}. Otherwise, I wonder about past precedent for bots with "WikiProject" in the botname. Gimmetrow 04:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'll get to work on that. If it really does not need approval, then I guess this request can just be closed. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 11:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I'd say just having something like ParentBot or Bot5446 etc. would be better—usernames such as this one seem to be more reserved for more "official" stuff (RedirectCleanupBot to take a random example). dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 12:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm way ahead of you. Immediately after you said it did not need approval, I filed for a renaming. It is currently pending. — Parent5446 ^{(t n e l)} 15:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

You would probably be better off using categories rather than tranclusions to do this work. Load up articles from the wikiproject category, and check for intersections with Category:Wikipedia featured article candidates, for instance. Gimmetrow 03:14, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I see. Thanks. I'll check that out. Right now, I need to fix a corrupt PHP installation (not sure how it was corrupted, it was working fine for the past year). I also have to figure out why ereg_replace is not correctly substituting & with %26. — Parent5446 ☯ talk ^{(message email)} 11:59, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Withdrawn by operator. non-BAG close, bot account has been renamed and approval is unneeded. BJ^Talk 09:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

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