Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 42


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PrimeBOT 42
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Time filed: 20:33, Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (UTC)

Function overview: Modify WikiProject banner

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: WP:AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Special:PermaLink/1193423282

Edit period(s): OTR

Estimated number of pages affected: 5832

Namespace(s): Talk

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: (to quote from the request) For the 5832 articles listed at WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge, add yes to the project banner WikiProject Africa on the talk page.

Essentially just a find/replace to chuck in the AFR10k param before the closing parens of the WikiProject banner. No other changes (other than AWB genfixes) will be made. Also noting that I will check to make sure the template doesn't already have the parameter (to avoid double parameter issues).

Discussion
— xaosflux  Talk 20:58, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Edits. Note just for the sake of making the checks easier I decided not to run genfixes. Primefac (talk) 21:22, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Ermm,, , where's the consensus for this change? Outcome of this discussion of all of these templates existing at that time was not to merge, with the sole exception of the Canadian one. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:51, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I really did not think this would be controversial in any way. TfD opened at Templates for discussion/Log/2024 January 3. (Note that this bot task is only tangentially related to that template, because that template only had 5 transclusions.) &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:04, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Justlettersandnumbers I assumed the ask was uncontroversial, but still only approved the small technical trial; full approval should include a stronger showing of support especially considering the concern raised now. — xaosflux  Talk 22:54, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
 * , to address the banner question - I did not know the Africa template existed, and it was clearly not included in the original TFD. Given that the Canada template was deleted, one cannot necessarily say there is no consensus to keep these banner templates individually, but since the TFD on the Africa template has been started I suppose that will answer that question. Primefac (talk) 07:00, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I note that Justlettersandnumbers did not even bother to comment at the TfD, after stalling this simple task &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:45, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No one is obligated to do anything on Wikipedia. I don't necessarily find any issue with it. Primefac (talk) 12:47, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * , just noting that the TFD has now been closed. Primefac (talk) 15:16, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

If this gets approved, will you use the module User:Magioladitis/WikiProjects? AWB's talk page genfixes include adding WikiProject banner shell and ordering templates per WP:Talk page layout, but they don't work well unless you use the module to change the many redirects to their base templates. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:36, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Honestly people get so up in a bunch about banners I was just going to run the task without any modules or genfixes; I'm tired of getting shouted at for these sorts of things when they're largely window dressing. Primefac (talk) 07:00, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Primefac: Thanks for your reply. I hope you don't think I'm shouting at you - just trying to be friendly to help prevent others from shouting at you.  Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 18:13, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh, totally! To be honest didn't know that module existed (and/or didn't clock its purpose) and "do nothing extra" seemed like the easiest path. Primefac (talk) 18:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Note: changed request to simplify the parameter to yes. The AFR bit seemed redundant &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:39, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

In Special:Diff/1193441522 I see the bot also added the parameter to WikiProject African diaspora, where it seems to do nothing. Other than that it seemed to work as advertised. Anomie⚔ 20:47, 31 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @Anomie: Adding the parameter to WikiProject African diaspora adds the page to Category:Pages using WikiProject African diaspora with unknown parameters.  removed the parameter from the page you mentioned, and the category is now empty. GoingBatty (talk) 03:55, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I missed escaping a pipe in the regex so it was matching  rather than   which is why it matched   Primefac (talk) 11:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, since it's fixed then . Anomie⚔ 11:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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