Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BazookaBot

User:BazookaBot
A manually-operated script, in Java with WikiLink. For starters, it will generate a list (on a user subpage) of website stubs that are not in Category:Websites (or a subcategory). If approved and successful, it could eventually be extended to other categories. Should be a fairly simple script without room for damage, since it won't be making any mainspace edits. ~ Booya Bazooka 01:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You need to explain this a bit more. What is the purpose in what you are doing, that is what value are you gaining with that information what do you intend to do with it. Also since Category:Website stubs is a subcategory of Category:Websites isn't the product of this going to be an empty list? --pgk( talk ) 06:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The aim is to make sure that all of these website articles get categorized; having them all piled up in the stub category isn't very useful to someone browsing the categories. So, it would help greatly to just see a list of the articles to which I need to add categories. To answer your second question, the subcategory list will exclude Website Stubs. ~ Booya Bazooka 15:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok as you say it should be fairly straightforward and only editing with it's own user name space. For implementation I'm not familiar with WikiLinks implementation, but you might like to consider query.php as a fairly simple and reliable way of extracting the category memberships. I assume this will run and generate the details and perform a single edit to refresh the page? How often are you anticipating to run this? Assuming you aren't intending to do 1000s of updates in order to achieve the result then go ahead with a trial. --pgk( talk ) 17:07, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I doubt I'll be running it any more than once a day, single edit. I am currently looking into query.php for the categorization. ~ Booya Bazooka 18:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)