Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Maintenance

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Uncategorised people 1147
Unassessed biography articles 54904
*Unassessed actor and filmmaker articles 6
Automatically assessed biography articles 160737
Biography articles without infoboxes 27487
Articles without listas parameter 327298

The maintenance department of the Biography WikiProject uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; and helps maintain Portal:Biography.

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[edit] Automation

The current scope of the Biography WikiProject is enormous and covers thousands of articles. These articles must be tagged, their infoboxes replaced or deprecated, and so forth. Given the sheer number of articles, it is quite tedious to do these things by hand; therefore, various automated or semi-automated processes must be set up to perform these maintenance tasks.

[edit] How to help?

Depending on the nature of the task, it can be either completely automated and run by a bot, or semi-automated via AWB, requiring a user's decision to whether or not implement the changes. Indeed, in order to minimize false positives, some of the operations should be performed by hand.

Rules of thumb:

  • If you don't have a bot, don't take up a task that can be automated and involves a great number of articles - you will lose precious time pressing Ctrl-S in AWB.
  • Don't create your own bot if there is no need to - a few bots will probably be more than enough.
  • Don't assign yourself a task if you don't have time for it.
  • If you can only do a part of a task, once finished, update the number of articles remaining, and move it back to unassigned.
  • If the task is semi-automated only, it is because there are numerous false positives, so check every article before saving.
  • Don't forget to uncheck "ignore unexisting pages" in AWB's "Set options" tab when dealing with talk pages!
  • If you want to help, look at the list of unassigned tasks below, assign it to yourself by adding your name to the appropriate column, and start kickin' :)
  • Once completed, put this fact in a visible manner somewhere in the list.

[edit] What is a task?

A task is a maintenance operation that can be executed on a precise set of articles. It can be identified by several parameters:

  • Its name
  • A description of the initial set of articles on which the operation must be performed and of the unitary operation itself, along with conditional parameters. The initial set can be:
    • A category
    • A list of pages transcluding a template
  • Whether or not it can be automated (see above)
  • The number of articles in the initial set

Note: "non-recurrent" tasks should actually be reperformed once every few months, to take into account new articles created on the subject. However, moving a finished non-recurrent task back to unassigned will be done at discretion of the project coordinators.

[edit] General notes

When a task involves tagging articles from a stub tag and automatically rating them as "Stub-Class", the auto parameter in {{WPBiography}} must be set:

{{WPBiography
|class=Stub
|auto=yes
...
}}

[edit] Participants

[edit] Bot operators

  1. Kingbotk (talk · contribs)
  2. PlangeBot (talk · contribs) - inactive
  3. MenasimBot (talk · contribs)
  4. PsychAWB (talk · contribs)

[edit] AWB users

  1. Plange (talk · contribs)
  2. Kingboyk (talk · contribs)
  3. Mocko13 (talk · contribs)
  4. Psychless (talk · contribs)

[edit] Current tasks

[edit] Recurrent

Task Brief explanation Can be automated? # of articles involved Assigned to / last time done:
Biography newsletter delivery Every month, the Biography newsletter must be delivered to all people taking part in the project (unless they choose not to receive it). Yes ~200 Plange (N/A, monthly)
Clean out Category:Biography articles needing priority parameter replacement Talk pages in this category have an active importance= parameter, which needs to be replaced with priority=. Needs to be checked every few weeks or so. Yes Variable Can be done by any editor.

Last done by User:Mocko13 on February 27, 2007.

[edit] Non-recurrent

Task Brief explanation Can be automated? # of articles involved # remaining Assigned to / last time done:
Tag articles under Category:African politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes 676 Done! MenasimBot (talk · contribs)
Category:United States military personnel stubs All articles to be tagged with military-work-group=yes and auto-assessed. Yes 788 Done! plange (27 Aug 2006)
Tagging Category:Polish military personnel stubs All articles to be tagged with military-work-group=yes and auto-assessed. Yes 132 Done! User:Plange (4 Sep 2006)
Tagging Middle East military personnel stubs All articles to be tagged with military-work-group=yes and auto-assessed. Yes 97 Done! User:Plange (12 Sep 2006)
Tagging United Kingdom military personnel stubs All articles to be tagged with military-work-group=yes and auto-assessed. Yes 496 Done! Plange (16 Sep 2006)
Category:Virginia politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed. Yes 180 Done! plange (sometime in August 2006)
Tagging Category:Scottish nobility stubs All articles to be tagged with royalty-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes 159 Done! Plange (17 Sep 2006)
Tagging Category:Scottish royalty stubs All articles to be tagged with royalty-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes 35 Done! Plange (17 Sep 2006)
Tagging Category:European people stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes 14 Done! Plange (24 Sep 2006)
Tagging Category:Living people All articles to be tagged and living=yes added. Yes Over 115,000 Done! Kingbotk (finished Sep 2006)
Tagging Category:Politician stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes Over 20,000 Done! Kingbotk (Sep 2006)
Tagging Category:Physicist stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes ~750 Done! Kingbotk (Sep 2006)
Tagging Category:Politicians All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes Over 45,000 Approximately 30,000 have been done. Remainder needs to be done; contact me if you want the list. Kingbotk (Sep 2006)
Category:Australian musical group stubs Tag with class=Stub,auto=yes,musician..=yes and with the WP Australia template Yes 281 Done! Kingbotk 2 October 2006
Category:Australian musician stubs Tag with class=Stub,auto=yes,musician..=yes and with the WP Australia template Yes 312 Done! Kingbotk 2 October 2006
Category:Indonesian people stubs Tag with class=Stub,auto=yes and {{WP Indonesia}} Yes 149 Done! Kingbotk 5 October 2006
Category:Musical group stubs Tag with class=Stub,auto=yes,musician..=yes Yes ~7900 Done! Kingbotk 2 October 2006
Category:Japanese people stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub. Adding {{WikiProject Japan}} Yes 1099 Done! PlangeBot (talk · contribs) (8 Oct 2006)
Category:Eritrean people stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~70 Done! Kingboyk (talk · contribs) 9 October 2006
Category:German military personnel stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed. Yes ~75 Done! Kingbotk (16 Oct 06)
Military personnel stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed. (Not including subcats). Yes 799 Done! Kingbotk (talk · contribs) (17 Oct 06)
Category:Japanese actor stubs All articles to be tagged with a&e-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes ~360 Done! Kingbotk (talk · contribs) 18 October 2006
Category:Japanese musician stubs All articles to be tagged with a&e-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes ~200 Done! Kingbotk (talk · contribs) 18 October 2006
Category:Japanese singer stubs All articles to be tagged with a&e-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes ~160 Done! Kingbotk (talk · contribs) 18 October 2006
Category:Tunisian people stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~40 Done! --Wizardman 05:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
tagging Category:Conservative MP (UK) stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes 736 Done! MenasimBot (talk · contribs)
Category:African people stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~30 Done! Mocko13 20:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:Angolan people stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~70 Done! Mocko13 20:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:Liberian politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~80 Done! Mocko13 22:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:Nigerian politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~80 Done! Mocko13 22:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:People stubs All articles to be tagged and auto-assessed as Stub - not including subcats Yes ~2200 Done! Mocko13 22:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:South African politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~90 Done! Mocko13 23:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:Central African politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~130 Done! Mocko13 23:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:East African politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~140 Done! Mocko13 23:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:Western African politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~160 Done! Mocko13 23:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:African royalty stubs All articles to be tagged with royalty-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~230 Done! Mocko13 02:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:Ethiopian royalty stubs All articles to be tagged with royalty-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~110 Done! Mocko13 20:14, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:African writer stubs All articles to be tagged with a&e-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub Yes ~250 Done Mocko13 02:22, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:Finnish politician stubs All articles to be tagged with politician-work-group=yes and auto-assessed as Stub. Yes ~70 Done Kingbotk 3 March 2007

[edit] Logs

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[edit] Resources

[edit] Portal upkeep

A group of members of the Biography WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and upkeep of Portal:Biography.

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[edit] Members

  1. Plange (talk · contribs)
  2. Nat91 (talk · contribs)
  3. Miraculousrandomness (talk · contribs)

[edit] Maintenance required

  1. We need people to input the Did You Knows from the main page, as it seems that the admins doing those are not placing them on the Portals.
  2. Picking a selected photo
  3. Picking a selected article