Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Thehelpfulbot 10


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Thehelpfulbot 10
Operator:

Time filed: 22:21, Saturday March 3, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python (pywikipedia)

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia, interwiki.py

Function overview: Interwiki links

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Close to continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: Several

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: The bot will be doing the typical interwiki linking for pages that link back to the English Wikipedia. The parameters I plan to use are: ''python interwiki.py -start:! -autonomous -async -family:wikipedia -lang:en -cleanup -nolog''. Thanks.

Discussion
Standard interwiki.py, trial to make sure everything has been implemented okay for this case. - Kingpin13 (talk) 22:28, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, removing the log parameter, else the log become quite large quite quickly. The  Helpful  One  22:45, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * - just under 50 edits. The  Helpful  One  18:33, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, the script continued to run on the cron tab (did another 10-15 edits) - should have stopped now. The  Helpful  One  19:50, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't see any problematic edits in the trial run, but I'll let a BAG'er more expert than me with interwikis to approve the task.  Snowolf How can I help? 19:53, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

The removal at Tenkovo is incorrect. I suspect this is because the link is to sr:Tenkovo, which seems to automatically redirect to sr:Тенково, although the API does not pick up on this (see this query). Either way, I think you may be better off running without -cleanup, unless you're willing to check all removals. - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay - I will run it without the -cleanup parameter, else it would create a lot of work to review all of those edits. The  Helpful  One  20:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Everything checks out. - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:29, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
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