Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot 12


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RileyBot 12
Operator:

Time filed: 07:43, Saturday April 20, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: N/A

Function overview: Updates Good Articles in respect to the Good article template.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bots/Requests for approval/Good Article Patrol Bot

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: N/A, less than 17,340

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details:
 * 1) There is a desire in the GA Project for a bot that would periodically check the Good articles; adding the template to those that don't have it, and removing the template from pages that are no longer Good articles. The bot would use Category:Wikipedia good articles as a list of actual GAs, since the category is populated by GA, which is put on talk pages of GAs and determines whether or not the article is actually a Good article. To check articles that use the template, Category:Good articles is used, since it is populated by Good article.
 * 2) Run through Category:Delisted good articles and Category:Former good article nominees to make sure that Good article is not on the articles, if it is; the bot will remove the template.

Discussion

 *  ·Add§hore·  Talk To Me! 17:37, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Could be tricky, but looks like a solid get-a-bot-up-and-monitoring task for an experience bot operator. -68.107.137.178 (talk) 16:31, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Ran the trial but had to stop because of and . The issue has been fixed though (it was getting tripped by an old template from 2006). I have started my bot back up to finish the trial. -- Cheers,  Ri l ey    19:35, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Oops, my fault—my code—sorry about that. — Theopolisme ( talk )  11:29, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Bot operator has retired. '''-- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Riley_Huntley/You_missed! Cheers, ] Ri l ey   ''' 23:14, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Going to wait two weeks before doing running the bot for the trial again because while this is a good task, there isn't many pages that need to be fixed at the moment. -- Cheers, Ri l ey    04:11, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
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