Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MelonBot 8


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

MelonBot
Operator: Happy‑melon

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Adding code to WikiProject banners

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one-time run

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

Function Details: Per this discussion, we need to add to the code that does categorisation into the Category:Articles by quality tree in most WikiProject banners. Currently most banners contain code like ... |FA|Fa|fa= |A|a= |GA|Ga|ga= |B|b= |Start|start= |Stub|stub= ... We need to add the line |C|c= filling in PROJECT as necessary. This is an easy task for AWB's find-and-replace. The only snag are the projects that have opted-out of C-Class; I intend to simply remove their banners from the list before handing it to AWB. I can't guarrantee to get them all, only the ones that have identified themselves with WP:1.0, but since it's only a 1-time run, any reverted edits won't be remade. Happy‑melon 17:58, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Discussion
On a related note, perhaps it would be better to implement a meta template of some sort instead of simply adding a line? For the most part the assessments are standardized, but the code is an ugly mess for a lot of the WikiProjects (lots of copying and pasting). Perhaps coming up with a standardized WikiProject banner would be better and then having a bot (or humans) set that up one time would be better?

If you do decide to simply add the C-class line, I would recommend figuring out what to do with the category description page. Either having a bot create it or leaving a note on the WikiProject talk page telling them to create it. And, of course, instructions (what qualifies as C-class, etc.) will need to be updated, so perhaps you could mention that in the note as well. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Cough :D. Unfortunately, its deployment is still proceeding quite slowly - we have 368 banners using the template, against about 850 that aren't.  This is just a quick-and-easy stopgap measure - the ultimate goal is to deploy WPBannerMeta universally or near-universally.  All the C-Class categories have already been created (see Bots/Requests for approval/MelonBot 7!), so there shouldn't be any issues there.  Many projects transclude  to serve as assessment instructions, which has been updated with the new criteria and class.  Of course there are a considerable number of projects that don't do that, but the variety of the instructions they do use precludes using a bot to update those.  Happy‑melon 09:01, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Looks pretty obviously useful. Let's just make sure it does what we expect. – Quadell (talk) 10:54, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Fifteen or so edits in the bank. No problems to note, except for a couple of protected templates that were skipped. I'll reload that list and run it through on this account at the end, I think - easiest way.  Good to go? Happy‑melon</b> 18:50, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Dude, it's been less than 24 hours. I'm just waiting for others to have a chance to look over the changes and comment. Give it a couple days. – Quadell (talk) 13:38, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, if that's what you want to do. The template wasn't "I want approval now" so much as "is anyone actually listening?".  <b style="color:forestgreen;">Happy</b>‑<b style="color:darkorange;">melon</b> 13:44, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, we are always watching, mwa-ha-ha. SMirC-devil.svg – Quadell (talk) 13:58, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Go for it. – Quadell (talk) 13:38, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.