Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ProcBot


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ProcBot
Operator:

Time filed: 00:44, Tuesday, July 14, 2020 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: supervised

Programming language(s): Ruby

Source code available:

Function overview: Replace community sanctions templates with the DS template, for affected climate change talk pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Climate change (GS -> DS)

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 100-250

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: Community sanctions for climate change were superseded by DS, but a number of GS sanctions templates remain on 100-250 pages, roughly. Effectively, this task is a small script to replace the community sanctions template with a DS template. If a DS template is already present (as well as a general sanctions template) it just removes the general sanctions template, leaving the DS one intact.

Sample edits at my sandbox. Particularly: Special:Diff/967562876 and Special:Diff/967562797

It will process article talk pages in this list this list (previous search misses some results), but excluding subpages (simple check for if the page title contains a /).

Discussion
By the time everything gets tested and a trial run, you might as well have just done it on your own. 100-250 is a bit small for a bot run. Primefac (talk) 01:14, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It felt somewhat tedious to do by hand. It could be done by hand if need be, and another editor volunteered to handle some manually, but it does seem like more effort than just running a script. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 01:31, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * AutoWikiBrowser * Pppery * it has begun... 02:28, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * If it's possible with AWB, sure, I can file a request at WP:AWBREQ instead. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 02:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Done with AWB (or, JWB rather). Believe I've gotten them all, so this is no longer needed. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:32, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
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