Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Android Mouse Bot 3


 * 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 Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

Android Mouse Bot 3
Operator: Android Mouse

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, but monitored

Programming Language(s): C

Function Summary: This bot adds the tag under Trivia sections to articles which don't already have the tag.

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

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute

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

Function Details: I currently have the bot written to check and add the tag to articles in Category:The Simpsons episodes, since this category is reported to have many articles with trivia sections. Eventually I plan on implementing a more efficent way of finding untagged articles rather than scanning every article in a given category. Possible ideas include scanning a database dump to creating specialized google requests.

Discussion
My only concern is duplicate tagging, if you've fixed that, then for 50-100 pages. --ST47 Talk 10:57, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think it will be a problem, since if it finds any occurance of ' ' in the article text it will skip it. I'll keep a close eye on it nontheless though. --Android Mouse 16:37, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

It has now completed 63 edits. There were two or so articles that it double tagged because I had not realized was the same tag. I fixed these mistakes and the bot now recognizes this tag. --Android Mouse 18:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Make sure you also have:
 * Template:Too much trivia (redirect page)
 * Template:Cleanup-trivia (redirect page)
 * And --ST47 Talk 18:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, those are now added into the bot's scan list. --Android Mouse 19:07, 20 May 2007 (UTC)


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