Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Eubot 5


 * 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.

Eubot 5
Operator: Eugène van der Pijll (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: Updating/correcting taxoboxes

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

Edit rate requested: about 10 edits per minute

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

Function Details: Eubot wants to edit taxoboxes to remove the "color" parameter. This has been obsoleted for most taxoboxes by some clever template programming. In the most common cases (e.g. plants, animals), a taxobox can now select the correct color automatically, but the color parameter overrides the automatic choice. I want to remove this parameter in these cases for two reasons: 1) it often is edited unwisely (see e.g. Template talk:Taxobox/archive006); 2) we may want to change the color for the animal kingdom (see Wikipedia talk:Taxobox usage).

As there are over 51,000 animal taxoboxes alone, this is a task for a bot. The articles that the bot will edit will be identified from a database dump.

Discussion

 * Support - a bot to perform this same task, Taxobot, gained approval but was never coded (because I ran out of time). Thanks Eugene for taking the task on yourself! Verisimilus  T  18:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me :) SQL Query me!  23:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, sounds very good.--Altaileopard (talk) 14:24, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 250 edits please - we might be able to do a longer trial after that to make sure that no one in the community is going to start complaining suddenly. Martinp23 00:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I've done about 200 edits, see . I'll keep an eye on them to see if any of them are reverted, but I haven't seen any problems yet. Eugène van der Pijll (talk) 14:49, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, good. Is it okay, if I remove the taxobox color from all carnivora articles.. and later from all mammals?--Altaileopard (talk) 16:40, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You can if you want, but you don't need to. When I get approval for the full run, it will take me about a week, I think, to edit all animals. Eugène van der Pijll (talk) 19:47, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, no complaints at all one week after finishing the trial; one (positive) comment at User talk:Eubot. Can I have approval please? Eugène van der Pijll (talk) 19:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC) BAGAssistanceNeeded
 * I've looked over your most recent 50 contributions. It seems the bot is doing what you said it would. I would stongly suggest approval, from BAG. SQL Query me!  08:47, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Based on SQL's recommendation, -- Cobi(t 09:19, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


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