Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/The wubbot 2


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User:The wubbot 2
Operator:

Time filed: 23:22, Wednesday May 11, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard Pywikipedia

Function overview: Updating Portal:United Kingdom

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: about 600

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N/A

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function details: I wish to update the randomly displayed features on Portal:United Kingdom using my bot. Briefly the bot will: This will increase the number of featured articles in rotation on the UK portal. I may also want to perform other maintenance tasks on sections of the portal in future. All of these edits will be confined to subpages of Portal:United Kingdom. the wub "?!"  23:22, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Take a list of approximately 650 Featured Articles/Biographies relating to the UK which I have prepared manually
 * 2) Check the talk page of each article for whether it has appeared on the Main Page
 * 3) If so, copy the relevant blurb (e.g. Today's featured article/May 7, 2011) into a numbered subpage of Portal:United Kingdom/Featured article or Portal:United Kingdom/Featured biography as appropriate

Discussion
While BRFAs cannot approve you for unspecified future tasks, those can probably be speedied. About current task, Let's see some sample diffs of what this does. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 08:44, 12 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Done . the wub "?!"  14:46, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Wouldn't it be easier to transclude the required "Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/XXXX" articles or is that impractical? — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * No, because those pages include the links to "Recently featured" articles and the standard TFA footer TFAfooter. These aren't relevant on the UK Portal, so the bot clips them off when copying over. the wub "?!"  15:27, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah, OK, I see. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 15:59, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Project space FA-related work. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 15:59, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


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