Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Kumi-Taskbot 6


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Kumi-Taskbot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 02:59, Wednesday January 25, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual:

Programming language(s): C#, Regex, AWB

Source code available: See below

Function overview: Find and delete the unneeded WolterBot template from the WikiProjects

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): The bot has been dead for 2 years and a tool was created on the toolserver to replace it

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 550

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N, not applicable for this task

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

Function details: Find and delete the WolterBot templates leftover on the project pages. The bot has been dead for two years now and there is a new tool on the tooserver to replace the task. Therefore the WolterBot templates are no longer needed. The code I will be using to remove this is as follows:
 * Find and delete:

Discussion
It's possible that outright removing the templates might be putting the cart before the horse&mdash;that is, it might be skipping a step. Among other things, there seem to be a bunch of pages that might be affected, in a relatively minor way, due to two templates:


 * Special:WhatLinksHere/User:WolterBot/Cleanup_listing_header &mdash; removing the template would make it difficult to track down those pages again; presumably the pages should be updated to reflect the new service location, deleted outright, or have some other means (e.g., category) of tracking backlinks.


 * Special:WhatLinksHere/User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription &mdash; similarly, this template might be better updated to reflect the new location of the service.

-- slakr \ talk / 03:39, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The new tool is based on the toolserver rather than a bot that runs around. Additionally, its a completely separate method of signing up. The old and new processes use a completely different methodology and don't relate. The new tool uses the template, Template:WikiProject cleanup listing rather than the old one by Wolterbot, users request the tool by requesting it here and the information can be retrieved here. I hope this helps but please let me know if you have any more questions. --Kumioko (talk) 03:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * When I was starting the toolserver-based version of cleanup listings, I used the contents of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions, that is filled by User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription, as a base. So, all projects that were there at the time should have their listing in my project (except WikiProject Biography which I disabled, because it's too big). Since then, apparently about 20 projects were added, probably in attempt to create the listing for them. I have added those to my project now (and changed the template to the new one for them).
 * But there is one group of pages in that category that could be useful: about 100 task forces. Dealing with them is more complicated, so I didn't add most of them to my version of the listings. Because of that, the category and the template that fills it may be useful in the future. User&lt;Svick&gt;.Talk; 22:40, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, then based on that I should probably withdraw the BRFA until the task forces logic can be ironed out. --Kumioko (talk) 01:05, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

- Based on the above explanation provided by Svick. --Kumioko (talk) 01:06, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
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