Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dreamy Jazz Bot


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Dreamy Jazz Bot
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Time filed: 00:18, Tuesday, January 8, 2019 (UTC)

Function overview: Currently updates User:Dreamy Jazz/WantedPortals, but want to move this page to a subpage of WP:WPPORT. Lists redlinked portals when the portals were linked by templates.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Available on request. Not yet published it, but this is for no particular reason.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Portals

Edit period(s): every two days, although this may shorten or lengthen depending on need

Estimated number of pages affected: One page

Namespace(s): Wikipedia namespace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details: The bot currently does the functions it would on a subpage of the portal wikiproject. It grabs articles from Category:Portal templates with redlinked portals and Category:Portal templates with all redlinked portals, extracts redlinked portals from Portal, Portal bar and Portal-inline and displays them in a list (currently User:Dreamy Jazz/WantedPortals). See last two edits by the bot for the bug-free portal list. I will fix small issues if they occur, but the only changes will be if extra templates which link portals are created or if more/less info is needed on the page. There is talk of also including all redlinks, but this won't be implemented for now.

Discussion

 * are these updates useful for people watching the page to know have occurred? (e.g. the edits shouldn't be flagged as 'bot' to hide from watchlists?) — xaosflux  Talk 01:01, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure exactly, but my suspicion is that the page would act like any other database report, so not have poeple notified via watchlists. Also the list should remain fairly the same unless a portal is deleted which has a good number of links, so the list won't need to be checked every time as big changes will be few and far between (unless someone goes on a portal deletion spree). The not flag possibly is a good idea. I'll ask the WikiProject for their opinion. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 08:15, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Follow up from this database reports from don't seem to be in watchlists as the bot has the bot flag, so perhaps this may be a good indication that the bot flag is useful in my case. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 09:32, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * On further thought, I think having the bot flag is somewhat moot anyway. If I run further tasks, then possibly, but for this task I think having the bot show up in watchlists is a good idea (at least for now). Thanks, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 09:59, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The WikiProject want no bot flag, so my bot does not need the bot flag. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:01, 8 January 2019 (UTC)


 * single dedicated project page updating bot with low volume. Does not require a bot flag. — xaosflux  Talk 12:42, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
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