Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 24


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Legobot 24
Operator:

Time filed: 19:24, Monday October 29, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: github

Function overview: Update

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): botreq, extended discussion on my talk

Edit period(s): Checks hourly

Estimated number of pages affected: Ask Mother Nature

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details:
 * Reads from the "control panel" at User:Legobot/Current hurricanes (semi-protected)
 * Fetches and parses the NHC report (example for Sandy)
 * Updates various parameters in the infobox. To try and avoid math errors, most of the numbers are parsed from the report rather than converting them.
 * In the future, I might try and automate the uploading of the satellite images, but that will probably be a separate request.

Discussion
While I typically don't do this, I'd like to request a "speedy trial" as I would like to test this on Hurricane Sandy. Since it's near landfall, it will get updates every 2 hours, giving me enough data to make sure it's fully compatible with everything. For the purpose of the trial, I would be manually starting the bot and debugging it so any errors would get quickly reverted and fixed. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 19:24, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:33, 29 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I might not seeing it, but did your bot edit Hurricane Sandy? mabdul 19:05, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes/No. I was running it on my local machine so I forgot to set it to use the bot's account, so it [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hurricane_Sandy&diff=prev&oldid=520479475 edited] [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hurricane_Sandy&diff=prev&oldid=520487120 twice] under my account. I tried switching it over to labs, however that was giving me a different output when using BeautifulSoup, so I'm still looking into that. I also want to clean up the way the /Current hurricanes control page works so it's a bit more flexible. Legoktm (talk) 19:11, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * While I think we need to look into this and see quite what happened, a month later nothing has changed on the BRfA, so might I suggest an extended trial until any large hurricanes come up, as Sandy is well and truly over now. Is this task going to go anywhere?  Rcsprinter  (talk to me)  @ 00:17, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, I've been busy with other things. Given that the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is over, and 2013 isn't bound to start for a while, I'll poke Anonymouse to see if we can still trial it on a few other storms, otherwise I'll withdraw this until next June. Legoktm (talk) 21:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

I'll put this "on hold" until May/June-ish when storms start again. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 05:00, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
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