Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/XLerateBot


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XLerateBot
Operator: XLerate (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Function Summary: add New Zealand project banner WikiProject New Zealand to talk pages of a vetted list of Category:New Zealand articles.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one time run

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details: the update is to add the WikiProject New Zealand talk page template to a vetted list of 11k articles under Category:New Zealand. It adds class=stub when the article has a stub tag, and importance (low, mid, high, top) based on a recent article traffic survery for NZ pages. It would skip pages with any existing WikiProject templates, for manual checking (to avoid issues with nested templates etc).

Discussion

 * Are you using the KingBotK Generic Banner Plugin? This custom module is coded to work with banner shells and the like.  §hep   •   ¡Talk to me!  23:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That's a better way, so I'll run it with KingBotK to remove the substantial manual part. XLerate (talk) 06:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * After spending considerable time trying to get the KingBotK Generic Banner Plugin to work, I discover it appears to have a bug (every page is rejected due to bad tag), scheduled to be fixed in the next build. So I proceed with the original method, skip any existing tags, then look to the remainder when KingBotK is working. XLerate (talk) 08:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Looks simple enough.  MBisanz  talk 19:15, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

BJ Talk 04:59, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


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