Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 7


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Theo's Little Bot 7
Operator:

Time filed: 00:19, Wednesday April 17, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python + mwclient

Source code available: on github

Function overview: Automatically adds and removes TAFI from articles selected as one of Today's articles for improvement; additionally adds Former TAFI to talk pages of former TAFIs.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: 30 per week (10 articles with template added, 10 articles with template removed, 10 talk pages updated with Former TAFI)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No, unneeded

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

Function details: Automatically adds and removes TAFI from articles selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. See full source code in link above (tl;dr - uses pages like Today%27s_articles_for_improvement/2013/16/1 that are filled in manually based on predetermined structure to determine which pages to edit based on ISO calendar). Additionally, tags the talk pages of all articles that it removes TAFI from with. Requesting speedy-ish approval so this can run on Monday morning at 00:00 UTC for next batch of TAFIs—I'll of course supervise this first run, but in a trial/don't-actually-save-the-revision test I just completely, everything worked perfectly well.

Discussion
Seems like a reasonable task/bot/operator for speedy-ish approval. -68.107.137.178 (talk) 02:17, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

but you can keep running it at the end while waiting for review/final approval.  MBisanz  talk 11:42, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The bot will run every Monday at 00:01 UTC when TAFI is updated, so "please hold" until then. :) — Theopolisme (  talk  )  01:21, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Cheers, — Theopolisme (  talk  )  01:11, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Should you be removing the template from the article and replacing it with a blank line, or just removing it completely? For the Listeria article, probably, but for the others will it be an AWB edit invitation? Also, should that talk page template go at the top above the existing templates? It seems they should just be added in order, but I don't know. Appears to have ran well; I only checked half a dozen. -68.107.137.178 (talk) 10:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Your first concern is resolved and the bot will now remove the template completely. Per WP:TPL, it looks like this template should theoretically go in at position #6 in the "Lead (bannerspace)" list. — Theopolisme (  talk  )  11:15, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Looks good. -166.137.210.32 (talk) 22:24, 22 April 2013 (UTC)


 *  MBisanz  talk 02:16, 23 April 2013 (UTC)


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