Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot 7

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[edit] Addbot Task 7

tasks • contribs • count • sul • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • flag bot

Operator: ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Described here Searching and tagging pages from Special:NewPages (also patrol logs and DB dumps - if allowed)

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Not Continuous yet (I will manually restart the run after the completion of the previous)

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

Function Details: Bot automatically tagging and adding general fixes to new pages for WikiProject Orphanage

[edit] Discussion

How will you identify orhpans? Have you thought about redirects? -- maelgwn - talk 23:10, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

The bot will use the AWB auto tag feature. Also if it some to a redirect it will follow the redirect. ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 16:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
Can I say that I would like the bot to be able to be allowed to read for pages from database dumps, patrol logs and the new pages list. ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 16:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to chip in my two cents: WikiProject Orphanage would really appreciate a bot like this. We've been running across a lot of pages which have been orphaned for 4 years (5 years, in a few cases), probably because people have only been going through Special:Lonelypages, but no one's been searching all of mainspace for them. Tagging these articles (and therefore dropping them straight into CAT:ORPHAN for easy processing) would make our job a lot smoother.--Aervanath's signature is boring 02:51, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I'll also get my bot to work on it, to help out there. Soxred 93 02:57, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
That would be great, Soxred!--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 14:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I have just downloaded a database dump so If this gets approved I can use that. ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· Talk 15:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
What do you mean by 'patrol logs', using what logic, and how? What qualifies an article for WP:O tagging? What template will you tag it with? If it's tagged on the talkpage, are you prepared to deal with shells? SQLQuery me! 07:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
For what qualifies as an orphan, please see the orphan criteria on the WikiProject Orphanage page. The bots should be following that criteria already, anyway, when running through Special:Lonelypages (an already-approved task).--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 07:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes the bot will be running using the same tagging system as it does when tagging lonelypages. All that is changing is where the bot is getting the list of articles from.·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 13:01, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
I will get a list from Special:Log/patrol and then run it through the tagging process which I am planning on making it to skip articles which have been tagged for deletion. It would tag with (for example {{orphan|date=June 2008}} for this month) This tag would be at the top of the article and not on the talk page. The pages will be tagged if the have no links to them from other pages. I hope this is everything you wanted to know. ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· Talk 11:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I am also planning (as it says above) to tag these for the other mantainence tags, fix the mantainence tags dates if they dont include any already. Also other General fixes that AWB will automaticly do. ·Ãḍď§ђɸŗЄ· Talk 11:21, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 18:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Too ambitious at this stage. No general fixes, no other maintenance tagging. Those things are thrown in by AWB with the intention of human review, not of a bit saving automatically. You can have this trialled and approved for adding {{orphan}} only, as far as I'm concerned. giggy (:O) 08:10, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
The problem with that is with the simple auto tagging in AWB you cant just pick which tags to add. It has to do the whole lot. (uncat, orphan e.t.c) I have done this process before with my user account and I have never had to skip a page as it ignores disambigs e.t.c ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 19:06, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Eh? You mean all you're doing is running a bot on every new page and having AWB check if it's an orphan, in the context of all its auto fixes? From me, that's a resounding no. giggy (:O) 09:11, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Not using its autofixes, only tagging. If you still don't like I will probably withdraw. ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 16:31, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Could it just be done for the orphan tag, as you suggested above? That's what we originally requested this task for in the first place. Maybe it's because I don't know enough about AWB, but I don't quite understand what you're objection is. Could you explain more thoroughly?--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 17:05, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
The automatic tagging option in AWB automatically detects and adds the maintenance tags if they should be. (uncat if the page has no cats and orphan for no links e.t.c) This is just a single option for the whole set of tags and not for each individual tag. ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont