Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Pi's Bot


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Pi's Bot
Operator:

Time filed: 20:15, Sunday, May 13, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): VBA

Source code available: No

Function overview:To add WikiProject tags and set taskforce parameters for Reality TV Taskforce

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot_requests. This is a replacement of the previous request Bots/Requests_for_approval/The_Little_Pixie%27s_Friend

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 8,493 (approx, the data will be re-validated due to the time elapsed since the last request)

Namespace(s):Talkspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):Yes

Function details:A request was made on Bot_requests for articles in certain categories to be tagged with the WikiProject Television template (if not already added) and to set the Reality TV Taskforce flag to true. I have written by first bot in order to complete this task.

A list of the articles in the categories that I have compiled is here

I will limit edits to one every 10 seconds, or another limit that is recommended.

Discussion

 * — xaosflux  Talk 12:31, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Please trial and report back results here. — xaosflux  Talk 12:31, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, Sorry I only just saw this was approved, I'll be on it tomorrrow Pi (Talk to me!)  22:58, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I have completed the initial trial. The report on the edited pages is here: User:Pi's Bot/RealityTV Pi (Talk to me!)  21:54, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * For Bill Murray & Brian Doyle-Murray's Extra Innings, the bot didn't edit it's talk page, it edited Bill Murray's talk page instead. I assume something went off with the "&" with boolean operations or something. WikiVirusC (talk) 22:18, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Also a few edits added the tag but also some error code from the script to the talk page. Talk:Zee Super Talents, Talk:Zee Dance League, and Talk:Cheer Squad are three that I found. It seems to be on articles in which a new page was created. Along with the error message on talk page, on the report page it posted the diff from the previous article. Talk:The Voice – Magyarország hangja had a similar error on table where it used the diff from the article two rows above it(one in between was SATISFIED), but no edit was made at all on Talk:The Voice – Magyarország hangja, instead newly created Talk:The Voice â€“ Magyarország hangja was made. Error with the "–" it seems. I'm sure you are looking through the report as well, I'm just listing the things I found. WikiVirusC (talk) 22:34, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Your bot tagged Talk:The Voice (TV series), which was a redirect. This broke the redirect (I noticed this when the page landed in Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects). Check for pages beginning, and don't put project templates on them. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:52, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm going through the list of edits and correcting anything that needs correcting. I have a few things to fix. There was a bug about how it deals with non-existent pages, and then I need to deal with redirects.Pi <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #0040b0; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">(Talk to me!)  21:07, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The list of articles to run bot on was generated back in March, several pages probably have been moved/deleted since then, hence the issue with The Voice. <b style="color:#000080; font-family:Tahoma">WikiVirus</b><u style="font-family: Tahoma">C <b style="color:#008000">(talk)</b> 10:23, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, I have made changes to the code to solve the issues from the first test. I have also manually checked all of the edits. I would now like to do another test run. <span style="color: #00b040; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">Pi <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #0040b0; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">(Talk to me!)  21:28, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * OK. — xaosflux  Talk 18:58, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * do you still want to pursue this? — xaosflux  Talk 02:44, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, yes, I'll work on this this evening <span style="color: #00b040; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">Pi <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #0040b0; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">(Talk to me!)  13:40, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, sorry I've been very tied up at work this week (making bots for web integration, no less). I'll be able to pick it up at the weekend. <span style="color: #00b040; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">Pi <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #0040b0; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">(Talk to me!)  20:25, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


 * comment, this bot mangles talk pages[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:American_Ninja_Warrior&diff=prev&oldid=844592509], and even with the bot operator's intervention, the problem isn't fixed[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bill_Murray&diff=prev&oldid=844593679][//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bill_Murray&diff=next&oldid=844593679]. I am not confident that this bot can operate safely. Frietjes (talk) 15:13, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm going to have to withdraw this for now, partly because I don't have the free time I had back in May, and because of the slow progress of getting approval for additional testing. I honestly can't remember how the bot works now. I will ensure that I review and fix what's necessary in the recent edits. <span style="color: #00b040; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">Pi <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #0040b0; font-family: Segoe script, helvetica">(Talk to me!)''  21:43, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
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