Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Detroiterbot III
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- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was
Approved.
[edit] Detroiterbot III
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Operator: MJCdetroit
Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic
Programming Language(s):AWB
Function Summary:Infobox work (task I and task II) and some formating per WP:MOSNUM within U.S. articles
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):daily
Edit rate requested: 15 edits per Minute
Already has a bot flag (Y/N):Y
Function Details: Task III: Use regexs to format the Geography and Demographics sections of U.S. settlements to conform to WP:MOSNUM, i.e. unit order.
I added this function, tested it under my regular account, and ran it under the bot account before realizing this it is technically a new task and I should have the approval to go along with it. I have not found any errors associated with the formatting edits. The regex's are very precise in what they are looking for. Therefore, if the exact regex combination is not found then no action will be taken. Here are some examples diff 1, diff 2, diff 3, and there are many more in Detroiterbot's contribs.
It works perfectly. Sorry for the tardiness, but I just wanted to be formal and make sure all my Ts were crossed and Is were dotted before going any further. Thanks
[edit] Discussion
15 edits per min is not necessary for this task, are you maxlag compliant? So it will be mainly dealing with conversions of miles, square miles and other US metric units and standardising them?-- maelgwn - talk 04:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- As shown in the diffs above, it only formats the units to place English units first and spell them out in full for the first occurrences of them. This only affects the geography and demographics sections, which were all inputed by a bot in a standard fashion. My bot makes those sections more compliant with the MOSNUM guidelines and more consistent with other parts of articles written about U.S. settlements (cities, towns, villages, etc). I haven't had any problems running; seems to work great. The 15 edits/minute is what I've been approved to before. Thanks,—MJCdetroit (talk) 13:28, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- In any case, however many edits per minute AWB does now, I am happy with. —MJCdetroit (talk) 17:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Approved for trial (25 edits). 10 epm should be fine. -- maelgwn - talk 23:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- In your edit1 above, shouldn't this put non-breaking spaces between numbers and units? (1.0 square miles) Gimmetrow 23:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- Trial is done (with the non-breaking spaces, thanks G) and it worked perfectly. —MJCdetroit (talk) 03:56, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Approved.-- maelgwn - talk 08:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
