Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotanyBot


 * 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.

BotanyBot
Operator: Rkitko

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised automatic

Programming Language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Function Summary: Uses AWB to assist WikiProject Plants in tagging article talk pages for assessment.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Sporadic one time runs when User:Rkitko has time to supervise it and when tasks arise.

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details: Adds the WikiProject Plants tag to most talk pages of articles within Category:Plants and its subcategories for WikiProject Plants assessment. It will also be used to assess articles with the "class=Stub" parameter for articles within Category:Plant stubs and Category:Botany stubs. It may also be used in a similar capacity for the two WikiProject daughters of WikiProject Plants: WikiProject Carnivorous plants and WikiProject Banksia.

Discussion
Just to be absolutely clear, what do you mean by "most" talk pages? — M ETS 501 (talk) 01:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Most of the subcategories of Category:Plants fall within the scope of PLANTS but a few do not, such as Category:Synthetic resins. Obvious exceptions will be omitted. Questionable subcategories or individual articles within those subcategories will be initially omitted and discussed with members of PLANTS for inclusion in the tagging effort. Thanks for asking! --Rkitko 04:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, and to clarify another question that might come up: When I say, "when tasks arise" I mean that if additional parameters are added to the WikiProject Plants template like "photo needed", this bot could be used for those tagging purposes. No function will be beyond these templates for the above mentioned WikiProjects, though. If I find a use for the bot beyond the stated use, I will return here for an approval for the added function, of course. Thanks! --Rkitko 22:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Make 50-100 edits and report back here. — M ETS 501 (talk) 00:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 62 articles within Category:Polygonaceae have been tagged with . See BotanyBot's contribs. Everything went as planned. Thanks! --Rkitko 02:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks good. This bot shall run with a flag. — M ETS 501 (talk) 03:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I hope the child projects are using the same template?
 * Are you aware of my templating plugin for AWB? The regexes are all prewritten for you and it doesn't mess up pre-existing templates. --kingboyk 23:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The child projects use different templates. User:Hesperian and I discussed it and came up with the idea of having the templates for CPS and BANKSIA categorize the articles into PLANTS categories as well (such that the class parameter would be the same but importance would be ranked-down: articles tagged for WP:CPS as mid-importance will be categorized into Category:Mid-importance carnivorous plant articles and Category:Low-importance plant articles.) Since I'm a new user to AWB, I've been very careful about selectively avoiding the child project articles, which wasn't so difficult since I'm going of a fairly well-organized category. I'll look into your templating plugin. Thanks! --Rkitko (talk) 00:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.