Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JackBot


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JackBot
Operator:

Time filed: 02:11, Friday November 5, 2010 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: auto

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: yes (pardon my French)

Function overview: interwiki.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): on Meta

Edit period(s): always

Estimated number of pages affected: between 0 and 500 in the next days (as I've noticed that the most part of these links were already present), and around one per month after.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y (but not here)

Function details: Mainly upgrading the existing interwiki links with and  (addition, removal, & double cleaning). Moreover I can also run redirect.py every day.

Discussion
I think this is a more or less straightforward and useful task. My concern is that your "test run" over almost every wiki without a flag was not discussed. The bot has even been blocked while running without flag. The bot also did not account for the Wikis where the template names are different from Link FA and Link GA, or where Wikis have not implemented the system at all. The community expects a higher level of scrutiny from bot operators. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 13:39, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Once upon a time a public French bot request should reasonably be extended after its resolution. Then the idea continued soothingly on Meta: their conclusion is to convince a maximum of communities. Ideally we could try to make uniform the templates names and the common.js part of script, or eventually share all these templates names like I begun to do.
 * However I can now evaluate with the whole day spent on the project that the necessary level of scrutiny imposed by the small part of the 276 communities, which I begun to contact, is a little bit overflowing. Consequently I would appreciate some help, even small. JackPotte (talk) 23:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Still happy to give this a go? Still got meta support? (Fragmented discussions make my head hurt.) - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 17:08, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Currently I could get the tr.w flag for this mission, but not the ru.w one. The process will consequently be that a few bots will update a few different wikis after each new FA election. JackPotte (talk) 11:19, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * So, just to confirm, you still want the enwiki flag? - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 11:30, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I just would like it to repair the double redirections with redirect.py, and to be able to add the new FA automatically. JackPotte (talk) 11:09, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Could you clarify what you mean by "add the new FA automatically"? Are you still referring to the task in function details, i.e. adding Link FAs? — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 12:07, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Adding Link FA, Link GA and Link FL from the categories of the wikis. JackPotte (talk) 11:17, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Will you be using the standard Python wikipedia robot framework for these tasks? Thanks, - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:41, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes I will. JackPotte (talk) 19:53, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * And have the problems apparent in some of the pre-approval edits by the bot been fixed? - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:40, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes they are. JackPotte (talk) 15:09, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 20:57, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've scanned the 785 French Featured Articles and they were all already notified here (until the last nominated one), idem for the 27 portals. Now I'll try from some other Wikipedias... JackPotte (talk) 19:01, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I had encountered something which would deserve a community decision, when scanning the 1 158 French Good Articles: Beaumes de Venise AOC has two interwikis and if I paste Link GA inside the both will be tagged... JackPotte (talk) 21:15, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Any progress? Anomie⚔ 03:27, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Mr.Z-man 00:28, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
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