Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SodiumBot


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SodiumBot
Operator:

Time filed: 02:43, Tuesday, May 30, 2023 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: supervised

Programming language(s): NodeJS + mwn

Source code available: TBD (will publish in a dedicated subpage/on github)

Function overview: Adding Navboxes to pages corresponding to Indian villages

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Expected to be uncontroversial

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: ~3300 ++

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No (Will/Can respect any variation of   if required)

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

Function details:

- Finding all instances of articles inside of Category:Villages in India by district.

- Filtering articles that do not have a Navbox corresponding to their district. (The heuristics I used to get to the 3300 number is by checking if a template with the name of the district existed in the page)

- Adding appropriate navbox related to the district to which the village belongs.

Discussion
Could you please give an example or two of an edit the bot would be performing? Primefac (talk) 08:36, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Something similar to 1156232688 and 1156210338. Sohom (talk) 18:36, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Could you please help me understand 1156232688? It appears Yermal is not included in Settlements in Udupi district.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 22:45, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @GoingBatty Yermal does show up in Category:Villages in Udupi district and benefits from being linked to a bunch of other articles via the Navbox. That being said, I did not see that it was not linked in the Navbox, and it maybe we can expand the scope to add the article to the navbox as well ? Sohom (talk) 00:42, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Sohom Datta: If it is appropriate to add the article to the navbox, then it is appropriate to add the navbox to the article, per WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. GoingBatty (talk) 01:05, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, WP:BIDIRECTIONAL is important here. Anytime a navbox is added to an article, it should already be wikilinked in the navbox. It would be out of policy to add navboxes to articles that aren't in the navbox. – Novem Linguae (talk) 05:44, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Primefac (talk) 09:37, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Noting here, I'll be traveling till the end of June, will run the trial once I'm back. Sohom (talk) 02:57, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Sohom Datta any update? — Qwerfjkl  talk  17:48, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * This appears to have fallen off my radar, will run the trial in a bit Sohom (talk) 14:07, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Have you had a chance to look at this? Anything we can do to assist? —&#8239; The Earwig (talk) 05:35, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Not yet I'm afraid :( Will take a look this weekend to see if I have time to implement it. Sohom (talk) 20:05, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

It has been more than a month since the last post, is this trial still ongoing? Primefac (talk) 13:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
 * No reply after a fortnight. Primefac (talk) 07:38, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
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