Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 3


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MilHistBot 3
Operator:

Time filed: 21:00, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: User:MilHistBot/awards.pl

Function overview: Processes MilHist award nominations

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: Four per nomination. Usually only three or four nominations per month. Each affects MilHist nomination page, one of the MilHist award archives page (of which there are two), User talk page, and Bugle page of the month. So a year's worth of daily runs will affect the MilHist nomination page, two MilHist awards archive pages, approximately 36 user talk pages, and 12 issues of the Bugle, 51 pages in total.

Namespace(s): Wikipedia, Wikipedia talk, and User talk

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: (With links to Sandbox test) The Bot:
 * 1) Posts the award template on the user's talk page (in this test case, the Bot's own page)  (the typo has been corrected)
 * 2) Changes the nomination page (ie Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Awards) to indicate that the award was awarded.
 * 3) Adds the award to the historical list (eg. WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACM)
 * 4) Adds the award to next month's Bugle (eg. WikiProject Military history/News/March 2018/Project news)

Discussion

 * . ~ Rob 13 Talk 06:50, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * did this trial complete? If so please post trial result and diffs here. —  xaosflux  Talk 14:07, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Trial is now complete. The Bot awards run has been successful. It has correctly updated the awards, ACM and  Bugle  pages. A typo in the posts on User talk pages entry was corrected, and these have been correct since the first run eg. . In all, the awards run has processed seven awards and 28 edits to 10 pages in 30 days.   Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:02, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Note that we only reached the 30-day mark yesterday, due to February being a short month.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  00:22, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Task approved. — xaosflux  Talk 12:58, 17 April 2018 (UTC)


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