Operator: Multichill (talk · contribs)
Time filed: 12:11, Saturday October 29, 2011 (UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic supervised, later automatic unsupervised
Programming language(s): python (pywikipedia)
Source code available: Not so simple script based on pywikipedia, see here
Function overview: Convert lists of National Register of Historic Places listings to a template based format
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#Wiki Loves Monuments 2012
Edit period(s): Conversion happens only once.
Estimated number of pages affected: About 5600 pages
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: The bot will convert lists of National Register of Historic Places listings to a template based format with to a template based format using ((NRHP header)) and ((NRHP row)). The layout of the page won't be changed for the casual reader, but for the updater live because a lot easier:
This system is already in use on several Wikipedia's.
The bot tries to extract the different fields from the current table with a bunch of regular expressions and it will also try to find the reference number of a listing in linked articles. I already did some tests and I'm now working of fixing the last bugs and tweaking things. I'm checking every edit now. When I'm confident that the bot isn't producing strange results I'll probably speed up. multichill (talk) 12:11, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Come back when you have a good sample of the bot's edits. --Chris 06:32, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]