Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EBot Task2

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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

[edit] EBot

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Operator: E

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, but contributions are monitored.

Programming Language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Function Summary: Replacing {{Infobox Band}} with {{Infobox musical artist}}.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Until task complete, one time run.

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per minute.

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

Function Details: The bot will simply be replacing {{Infobox Band}} with {{Infobox musical artist}} as the old template is deprecated. As per request at WP:BOTREQ.

[edit] Discussion

I will have to get AWB approval before running the bot. As AWB policy, the bot must be trial approved to be requesting AWB approval. — E ^talk_bots 06:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Sounds okay. –sebi 06:45, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Is FMAFanBot not slated to do the same thing? I'll leave a message for FMAFan1990; if he will defer to you as the more experienced bot operator, then we can get things moving along. — madman bum and angel 12:05, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I've denied FMAFanBot; the whole thing is like pulling teeth, and it is obvious he has no idea what he's doing with this stuff. Approved for trial (50 edits). —METS501 (talk) 12:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll start it ASAP, once AWB approval has been granted. — E ^talk_bots 09:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Granted! Reedy Boy 10:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

It looks like it needs more syntax to add. I was replacing them, but stopped and looked at the edits. The template needs more changes such as Band_name= -> name=. I have reverted the edits and require more information from the person that requested the change at WP:BOTREQ. — E ^talk_bots 11:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Here are the syntaxes that are supposed to be replaced:

• {{Infobox Band with {{Infobox musical artist 
• | band_name       =  with | Name                = 
• | image           =  with | Img                 =  and | Img_size            = for the part that says ???px
• | caption         =  with | Img_capt            = 
• | origin          =  with | Origin              = 
• | country         = with | Background          = group_or_band

• | years_active    =  with | Years_active        = 
• | music_genre     =  with | Genre               = 
• | record_label    =  with | Label               = 
• | current_members =  with | Current_members     = 
• | past_members    =  with | Past_members        = 
• | website         =  with | URL                 = 

These syntaxes removed altogether:

| actual_status   = 
| us_distribution = 

Formatted like this:

{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| Name                = 
| Img                 = 
| Img_capt            = 
| Img_size            = 
| Landscape           = 
| Background          = group_or_band
| Birth_name          = 
| Alias               = 
| Born                = 
| Died                = 
| Origin              = 
| Instrument          = 
| Voice_type          = 
| Genre               = 
| Occupation          = 
| Years_active        = 
| Label               = 
| Associated_acts     = 
| URL                 = 
| Current_members     = 
| Past_members        = 
| Notable_instruments = 
}}

FMAFan1990 11:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering how you were actually gonna do this easily with plain AWB. I wrote a plugin for a similar purpose - User:Reedy_Boy/Airport_Infobox_Migration_Plugin. Only for migrating those templates, and it doesnt do everything perfectly... Reedy Boy 14:35, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm working on something so the articles can be easily converted through AWB. FMAFan1990 02:47, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I canceled that, but I do have some good news: PEJL said this on my talk page:

"Well, I wouldn't put too much effort into it, because any bot that can convert inconsistent formatting into that formatting, can just as easily convert it directly into {{Infobox musical artist}}. However, a bot that would clean up existing formatting of musical artist infoboxes would be nice. Something similar is discussed for the album infobox here.

Another issue is that in most cases the image size that is in band infoboxes can just be dropped entirely when converted to the musical artist infobox. Band infoboxes need an image size to avoid using a full-size image (which is often way too big), but the musical artist infobox defaults to a suitable size, which is often better than the more or less random size in the band infobox. There are a few other such finer points that need to be kept in mind when converting these infoboxes."

So, just have the bot get rid of the ???px parameter completely when having it convert Infobox Band to Infobox musical artist because the latter template defaults the image size where necessary. FMAFan1990 04:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Also, I think it may work better if AWB were not used. FMAFan1990 04:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Withdrawn by operator. This needs another program other than AWB. Also, I am not very familiar with the migration of infoboxes in bot operation. If someone else can run this, go ahead and I'll co-ordinate it. — E ^talk_bots 06:10, 23 August 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.