The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

AnomieBOT 30[edit]

Operator: Anomie⚔

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually assisted / Automatic unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Overview: Add ((OnThisDay)) to the talk pages of articles featured in the Main Page's "On this day..." section.

Edit period(s): Daily

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

Function Details: Per request, the bot will do the following:

  1. First, the bot will process a list much like this one to tag the pages that have been featured over the past 5 years. This is the manually-assisted part.
  2. Then, the bot will run daily just after 00:00 UTC to add/update the tags on the articles featured the previous day. This is the automatic part. The bot will refuse to tag (double-)redirects, disambiguation pages, articles with redirected talk pages, and non-article pages; these will be output to an appropriate talk page (likely either WT:Selected anniversaries or User talk:AnomieBOT) for human attention. It will also create "Category:Selected anniversaries (year)" and "Category:Selected anniversaries (month year)" if either does not already exist.

In both cases, ((OnThisDay)), if not already present, will be added after all other templates in section 0 besides ((archive)), ((archive box)), and any with a "small=yes" parameter. If it is present, the existing template will simply be modified in place.

Discussion[edit]

Source is at User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/OnThisDayTagger.pm. Anomie⚔ 21:07, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. for the manually-assisted backlog part. Then we'll look at the daily part. – Quadell (talk) 15:03, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. [1] I did notice a bug in the sorting of the dates, already fixed that. Otherwise, it seems to have gone well. Anomie⚔ 21:01, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The edits look good to me as well.  Approved. for the one-time run to fix the backlog. Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. for the daily tasks. – Quadell (talk) 18:57, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. I've created the category tree Category:Selected anniversaries from January 2004 until December 2009. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Running the backlog now, then I'll start the 7-day trial. Would it be worth adding "Monthly, create the new Category:Selected anniversaries dated subcategory if it doesn't already exist" to the bot task? Anomie⚔ 02:16, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nah, it's understood. – Quadell (talk) 02:27, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It is? Not that it's anything but trivial, just subst the appropriate content into the category page so it isn't a redlink at the bottom of the talk pages. I'll just add it above for good measure. Anomie⚔ 02:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The first day's trial results: [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] There are also edits for 2009-05-15 to 2009-05-19 earlier in the day. Anomie⚔ 00:20, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More trial diffs: 2009-05-21[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and 2009-05-22.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Anomie⚔ 00:56, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More trial diffs: 2009-05-23[24][25][26][27][28][29] and 2009-05-24.[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] Anomie⚔ 01:12, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Even though there are a few days left on the trial, the results so far show perfect performance, so I'm going to go ahead and approve now. – Quadell (talk) 14:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]


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