Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Robbot (clone)

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Robbot (clone)

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Operator: Tæ (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 15:31, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 (UTC)

Function overview:The working of the robot is thus:

1. The robot loads (the edit page of) a page, chosen by the operator, and looks which links exist on that page. It provides them to the operator in a list, with a number for each link. In general, this page will be a disambiguation page.
2. The robot loads the page with pages that link to that page
3. The robot goes over these pages, loads their edit page, and for each of them, shows me the title of the page and the text (original wiki source) of about 60 signs in an area before and after the link.
4. The operator chooses and types in one of the numbers of the list, or one of a number of auxiliary actions (end the session, show more context before making a decision, do nothing, show the list again, give another option)
5. The robot changes the link on the page into a similar link, piped to the page that the operator has chosen.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Unknown

Programming language(s): Pywiki

Source code available: The code for Robbot is open, and available on sourceforge. Anyone who is interested in looking at, changing or running the bot can find the code on SourceForge. Before using it, however, it is good to check here, contact Rob Hooft and/or other developers and subscribe to the project's mailing list, as well as asking permission of the population of the MediaWiki project where you are running it.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Unknown

Estimated number of pages affected:

Namespace(s):

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):

Function details: Note: Please note that it is a clone of this bot. So, for all information see the original bot's page.

Discussion

• The above proposal is a copy-paste of User:Robbot which is a deactivated bot. The SourceForge link doesn't work - is the source for this bot even available? The talk page suggests this bot has not been used for a long time. For example it does interwiki links which are no longer done in wikisource but via WikiData so a clone of this bot would probably not be a good idea. Pinging previous developers/operators @Rob Hooft and Andre Engels: though they may not be around anymore. -- GreenC 15:46, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
  • We're both still around, though on the Dutch Wikipedia rather than the English one (and in my case even more on Wikidata). The bot that has been described here is solve_disambiguation.py from the Pywikibot framework, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/solve_disambiguation.py (including a link to the code at the git repository). (note: this is just background information, no opinion on this specific bot request) - Andre Engels (talk) 16:49, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
    • Thanks for confirming my existence, André! Rob Hooft (talk) 09:09, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
• Also, the User:Tæ has made less than 300 edits to Wikipedia. They are more active on Commons, but are continually transferring Copyright content from Enwiki to Commons (link) where it then gets deleted. Previous bot requests by this user have been denied on Commons by User:~riley who said, "Operator does not understand bots". Recommend this request be Closed. strike in light of Andre's reply above re: solve_disambiguation.py. I don't know what to make of this botreq because Tæ has neve done dab page work before. Tæ is primarily transferring images from Enwiki to Commons and is trying to automate that process (previous bot). That's three somewhat confused bot requests (this one, User talk:Jæbot and the botreq on Commons - perhaps others). -- GreenC 16:13, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
• Tæ, you have not given an overview of this function, just the specific steps that it is going to take (which should have gone under the "function details" section). In one sentence, what is the purpose of this task? Primefac (talk) 22:35, 24 December 2018 (UTC) {{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} Primefac (talk) 21:08, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination --Tæ (talk) 04:56, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Withdrawn by operator. Primefac (talk) 18:20, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

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