Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MartinBotIII 3

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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] MartinBotIII

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Operator: Martinp23

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: WikiProject tagging

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Frequent runs (can't really be more precise - will run when needed)

Edit rate requested: 8 per min

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

Function Details: Using kingboyk's plugin, will tag articles as members of Wikiprojects, based on the category in which they are contained. The bot will only run on a category which is likely to have very few false positives, and where there is consensus, starting with the WikiProject biography backlog. Thanks, Martinp23 15:20, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

  • This is pretty opened ended, are you seeking approval to tag for every project, and all future ones? — xaosflux Talk 15:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Effectively, yes, like Reedy Bot (2) does. Of course, I won't be going aound randomly tagging categories, and shall only do so on request and with proper discussion amongst the relevant projects, and examination of the category involved :) Martinp23 15:31, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Plenty of bots have blanket approval for WikiProject tagging. The question really is whether the operator can be trusted to make decisions on which jobs should be accepted and which not (yes, he can) and does he have a tool which is tried and tested? (I'd like to think so, but it's not for me to say!) --kingboyk 15:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

((BAGAssistanceNeeded)) I recuse myself because the proposal uses my tool and in the short-term I will supply him with some lists or categories to help WPBiography. Martin of course can't action his own proposal, so assistance is needed. --kingboyk 17:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Approved for trial. up to 250 edits, report back when done (you know the drill!). I wasn't involved in Reedy2's approval, but would want to see this approval require this tagging only for wikiproject's who's membership has come to a consensus about what their banner should be, that they are restricted to main space talk pages and/or project space subpages of the project; and that they are for specific article topic projects only (e.g. I'd never want to see articles tagged from the WP:TYPO project!). Most of this is commonsense, especially for this operator, but in the interest of other members of the community reviewing these requests it helps to spell some of this out. — xaosflux Talk 00:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Of course - I'll only do tagging jobs which I would confidently approve another bot to do, based on your caveats above. Trial complete - logs are here. Thanks, Martinp23 01:58, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
    • (ec)Presumably there would ideally be input from each WikiProject as to what the categories "likely to have very few false positives" in each case are. But that's really just joining the dots of the above, if it's not quite explicit already. Alai 02:00, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Yep - I'll only work where there is consensus, and a through vetting process has taken place on the category, and reccommendations have been made :) Martinp23 02:06, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
  • In this case, I (as de facto bot operator for WP Biography) supplied Martin with a list I'd prepared myself, of people by year of death. Tagging these categories - which are extremely well organised - was specifically requested at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment/Assessment_Drive following the project's immensely successful assessment drive. Technical details have been discussed at Template talk:WPBiography (including the explicit adding of a living=no parameter). We have plenty of work still to do, and with my desktop machine currently faulty and out of action Kingbotk can't do it all :( I also have lists of stub categories to do but, again, I've chosen the larger, well organised categories, of the kind which my bot has been tagging without significant complaint for some time. --kingboyk 02:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC) (e/c)

Approved. —METS501 (talk) 00:46, 16 April 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.