Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Josvebot 6


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Josvebot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 19:15, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): WPCleaner

Source code available: Yes at sourceforge.net

Function overview: Fixing articles with Headlines that all start with three "=" (CHECKWIKI-error #7)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: About 1-500 per day.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): I don't know. I have not written the program and have not yet encounted this problem.

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: Tha bot will fix article with unicode control characters and migh also errors 6, 9. 16-22, 25, 32, 44-45, 54, 57, 64, 66, 76, 85, 87-88 if the article in question has any of thes errors (inluding the three "="-error). I will file for approval for those CHECKWIKI-errors also.

Discussion
This strikes me as a task that's easy to get wrong. How will the bot differentiate between erroneous editing and vandalism that's left an article with bad formatting? Josh Parris 21:19, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * These fixes would be reviewed by me, before (or after, but mostly before) editing. I would like to get the bot flag, so I could do it "fast". - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  21:44, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for changing the task to "supervised", that clarifies things. How will you tell the difference between vandalism and errors? Josh Parris 22:15, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I will do three steps, look at the article for any discrepancies, then I will see how the article looks after edit and thirdly, look at the history( the 3rd is after the edit is made). If an article looks wierd och unclear, I just skip that page. - (t)  Josve05a  (c)  22:42, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think that in doing these three steps you're going to edit fast enough to cause anyone troubles. Equally, the Check Wikipedia list of === only headings shows no entries right now, so unless things get bad quickly there won't be a bunch of these go to through.
 * Given that you're going to supervise the edits and the low number of them, I don't see the need for a bot flag here. Josh Parris 23:48, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

- (t)  Josve05a  (c)  16:37, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Closing. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 18:39, 7 November 2013 (UTC)


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