Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VshBot 4

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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

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

Operator: Vishwin60

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Both

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Replacing soon-to-be deprecated edit-count userboxes

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run

Edit rate requested: 10 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N (pending after a previous approval)

Function Details: At Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 May 5#Numerous edit-count userboxes, a consensus is starting to form, saying that the edit-count userboxes should be merged into one userbox. If the TFD goes through, I had already mentioned there that I would be willing to change all of the usages of the old templates to the new template.

[edit] Discussion

How many instances are there to replace? Martinp23 10:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

"Quite a few", but I think the number doesn't matter too much if the consensus is clear at the MfD? --kingboyk 11:20, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm thinking along the lines of having a number of bots possibly do the task, depending on its size, as suggested at the MfD. Martinp23 20:41, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

If it's important, the new template has color options, so replacements could be done to reflect the list I generated, which is currently at User:Gracenotes/Sandbox 2. Gracenotes^T § 21:15, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Automatic {{#switch:es can be automatically added to the new template. V60 ^{干什么？ · VDemolitions} 22:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[twitches] that introduces some server load that is, in my opinion, unneeded. Recall that there are four colors here; four huge switch statements (or grouped, even one or two switch statements) is a lot. Something that could be done is to create a template that passes the first template name as an argument, and has a {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>#switch:{{{1}}} statement from that argument. The choices for the switch statement are all of the format User XXXe={{User contrib|XXX|color1|color2|color3|color4}}. So when you substitute {{Switch template's name|User XXXe}}, it produces the correct template. Uh... a bit complicated. Any thoughts? Gracenotes^T § 22:58, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

There's a lot more than four colours. We'll have to live with the current colouring in the newly-revised template, to compromise between the people who want to merge all of the templates and the people who think style is important as well. V60 ^{干什么？ · VDemolitions} 00:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I think that the correct place to bring this up would be at the TfD :). Martinp23 18:25, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

What's going on with this? --ST47Talk 10:53, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Apparently another bot handled this task. V60 ^{干什么？ · 喝掉的酒 · ER 4} 16:57, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Withdrawn by operator. --ST47Talk 17:56, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

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