Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xenobot 2


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Xenobot 2
Operator: – xenocidic  ( talk )

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (supervised)

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Template substitution in the User talk: namespace, updating userbox transclusions

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): No more than once per day

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

Function Details: The bot will substitute templates that are improperly transcluded on user talk pages. The list of such templates is found here. This will be done daily, or perhaps a few times a week (as required). Here is an example of such edits. While on the subject of find & replace, I would also like to use it to occasionally update transclusions of userboxen (example).

Discussion
BJ Talk 22:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Trial ✅. For the first task (template substitution) here's 22 edits. There would've been more but another bot beat me to job list that I compiled this morning. Note the first four edits were problematic because AWB seemed to mistakenly identify some code as trancluding the subst template - so I removed that template from the list. For the second task, here's 20 edits. No issues were encountered. – xenocidic  ( talk ) 23:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Here's 8 more template substitution edits. – xenocidic  ( talk ) 13:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I've just gone through about 125 transclusions under my username, to refine the method a bit, clean out some really old transclusions, and see what kind of false positives the bot might pick up. Should be good to go now. – xenocidic  ( talk ) 15:18, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Go ahead with these 155 uses needed for WP:RTV. Gimmetrow 23:04, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Here are the 155 edits I needed to do. Of course, I miscounted, so I did another 185 manually under my name. No issues - not much that can go wrong with updating userbox transclusions. – xenocidic  ( talk ) 01:06, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

BAGAssistanceNeeded I can haz approval? – xenocidic  ( talk ) 03:38, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * —Giggy 03:42, 13 July 2008 (UTC)


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