Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AussieBot 1

AussieBot 1
Operator:

Time filed: 01:57, Wednesday, March 22, 2023 (UTC)

Function overview: Mark unassessed stub articles as stubs

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): C#

Source code available: Not yet

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot requests/Archive 84

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: < 100 per day

Namespace(s): Talk

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Go through Category:Unassessed articles (only deals with articles already tagged as belonging to a project). If an unassessed article is rated as a stub by ORES, tag the article as a stub. Example

Discussion

 * This bot appears to have edited since this BRFA was filed. Bots may not edit outside their own or their operator's userspace unless approved or approved for trial. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:10, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
 * ^. Also, may potentially be a CONTEXTBOT; see Stub: There is no set size at which an article stops being a stub. EpicPupper (talk) 23:04, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The Bot run only affects unassessed articles rated as stubs by ORES. The ORES ratings for stubs are very reliable (some false negatives – which wouldn't be touched under this proposal – but no false positives). Hawkeye7   (discuss)  00:03, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds reasonable as ORES is usually good for assessing stub articles as such. – SD0001  (talk) 11:41, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Bot run with 50 edits. No problems reported. Diffs: .  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  00:42, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment: Some behavior I found interesting is that the bot is reverting start-class classifications already assigned by a human editor, and overriding those with stub-class. and  EggRoll97 (talk) 03:28, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * This should not be happening. Frostly (talk) 03:58, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * The question is: what should be happening? The article were flagged because some of the projects were not assessed. Should the Bot (1) assess the unassessed ones as stubs and ignore the assessed ones or (2) align the unassessed ones with the ones that are assessed?  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  04:21, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Per recent consensus assessments should be for an entire article, not per WikiProject. The bot should amend the template to use the article wide code. If several projects have different assessments for an article it should leave it alone. Frostly (talk) 05:03, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Courtesy ping, I've manually fixed up the edits where the bot replaced an assessment by a human editor. 6 edits total to be fixed out of 52 total edits. EggRoll97 (talk) 07:16, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Bot has been amended. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  04:51, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * BAG assistance needed This has been waiting for over 2 months since the end of the trial, and over 4 months since the creation of the request. Given the concerns expressed that the bot operator has since fixed, an extended trial may be a good idea here. EggRoll97 (talk) 05:19, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * My apologies. I have been very busy. Should I run the new Bot again with a few more edits? Hawkeye7   (discuss)  18:57, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
 * – SD0001  (talk) 19:10, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  22:33, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

D It has been more than a month since the last post, is this trial still ongoing? Primefac (talk) 13:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. I wrote the bot using my C# API, and due to a necessary upgrade here, my dotnet environment got ahead of the one on the grid. I could neither build locally and run on the grid nor on build on the grid. (I could have run the trial locally but would not have been able to deploy to production.) There is currently a push to move bots onto Kubernetes containers, but there was no dotnet build pack available. The heroes on Toolforge have now provided one for dotnet, and I will be testing it when I return from vacation next week. If all goes well I will finally be able to deploy the bot and run the trial at last. See T311466 for details. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  22:54, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Primefac (talk) 20:10, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Work was done in January and some changes made on Toolforge. Will resume the trial run when I get a chance. Hawkeye7   (discuss)  23:33, 18 February 2024 (UTC)