Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 41

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SmackBot 41

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Operator: Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl/AWB

Source code available: AWB, yes; Perl no.

Function overview: Monitor article moves and correct DEFAULTSORT

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:Categories

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: Less than 100 articles a day with DEFAULTSORT are moved, and many of these do not require repair, so significantly less than 100 per day for that aspect.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details:

1. Maintain a queue of recent article moves
2. Visit the target pages and:
   1. If there is no DEFAULTSORT and one is needed add it (using AWB logic/AWB).
   2. If there is a DEFAULTSORT which appears to be based on the page moved from, and is outdated replace it.
   3. In other cases do nothing
3. Periodically write a log page summarising actions taken

Discussion

This is a requirement from various discussions, one is linked to above. Femto Bot, (possibly the smallest bot in the world)Rich Farmbrough 07:01, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

User Rjwilmsi has already offered to write a bot for this, see e.g. User:Rjwilmsi/test. Fram (talk) 08:42, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Excellent. Rich Farmbrough, 13:41, 5 November 2010 (UTC).

{{BAG assistance needed}} Rich Farmbrough 05:32, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

This request being very similar to SB42 BRFA, the same issue is raised here - resolution of RfC on necessity of DEFAULTSORTING when sorting doesn't impact result RFC and partially on locale consideration when sorting feature request. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Suspending the "BAG assistance needed" until the recent issues are resolved. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:25, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

The issue raised on 28th Nov is not relevant. A page moved without revising the DEFAULTSORT is almost certainly an error. Rich Farmbrough, 10:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC).

{{BAG assistance needed}} Rich Farmbrough 09:56, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I assume by "AWB logic" you are referring to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes#DEFAULTSORT insertion and fixes (SetDefaultSort)? I'm not too familiar with this, but isn't it unable to resolve some exceptions, especially people names? —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 10:24, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

AWB is pretty robust with DEFAULTSORTs now. And I am not referring specifically to the code, but the general principles. Rich Farmbrough, 15:25, 12 January 2011 (UTC).

Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 10:02, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 04:14, 29 January 2011 (UTC).

A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. (user notified) Any updates? MBisanz ^talk 10:12, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. Any updates? MBisanz ^talk 08:28, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Request Expired. MBisanz ^talk 16:55, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.