Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Huzzlet the bot


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Huzzlet the bot
Operator: Puzzlet Chung

Automatic or Manually Assisted: manual

Programming Language(s): pywikipediabot framework

Function Summary: will sort entangled interwiki links.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): occasionally, whenever entangled interwiki links are found.

Edit rate requested: 100 edits per day

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details:

Some month ago I needed a personal tool for organizing messed-up interwiki links, so I ran pywikipediabot with User:PuzzletChung. It would sync cleaned-up interwiki links between some Wikipedias, and I would fix the other Wikipedias manually.

The purpose of this bot is no different from this, except that it runs on a separate account.

Discussion
What errors does it fix. Please give a set of diffs? Voice -of- All  04:46, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Recently, for instance, I removed incorrect link to sh:Utorak (Tuesday) from Friday with the bot. (also from Indonesian Wikipedia) After that, I found sh:Petak is actually referring to Friday and added it manually, (this's something pywikipediabot can't do automatically,) so that other automated interwiki bots could update the link on other Wikipedias. --Puzzlet Chung 10:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)


 * How are pages needing corrections identified? —  xaosflux  Talk 17:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm going to work on the articles with interwiki links that automatic interwiki bots seem to have failed to update for a while. For instance, it is suspective that an article has like 20 interwiki links but had no automated interwiki update for over two months. --Puzzlet Chung 10:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

What would be the maximum burst of edits? We're really after a figure per minute here, not per day. — Werdna talk criticism 12:37, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Just a sidenote, but both burst edits and total edits per day are useful statistics and can be used to determine whether or not a bot flag is justified. Just a thought.  A bot that performs a burst of 10 edits once per day is unlikely to need a bot flag, even if the edits are close together. -- RM 13:04, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * That should be no more than one or two per min. --Puzzlet Chung 10:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Say it around five per hour. --Puzzlet Chung 05:30, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * How does the bot know what needs correcting? How automatic is this? Can you show some diffs on edits to clear this up? Voice -of- All  06:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


 * per . --WinHunter (talk) 17:12, 19 November 2006 (UTC)


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