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.

Operator: Locos epraix

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (supervised)

Programming Language(s): AWB, pywikipedia

Function Overview: Clean out the list of articles with wrong wikisyntax (WP:CHECKWIKI).

Edit period(s): When required.

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

Function Details: Basically it will have the same task that DrilBot and SteveBot:

• <references /> missing (AWB)
• Wrong templates, without "((" or "))" (AWB)
• Blabla, the project indicates which errors can fixed trough bot (ex:[1]).

Plus

• Fixing double redirects (I have ran this script without approval, I hope you don't hit me).
• Template substitution.

As you in my contributions (main account), I have been checking the wikisyntax with help of WP:AutoEd, but the bot will help me to make the process easier.

Discussion[edit]

• Would the 3 of you need to coordinate, so that you're not overlapping each others lists of edits and getting in each other's way? – Quadell ^(talk) 15:08, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see when somebody finish a section it is usually hidden, also there shouldn't be any problem if the edits get overlapped. Locos ~ epraix Beaste~praix 18:07, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would probably be wise to create a template which could be put at the top of a section before we start running a bot through it... if it takes a few hours for a bot to do a full list, just marking it as having been done by bot at the end is likely to still create some redundancies. Maybe a notice like

This list is actively being fixed by (({bot|))} Please do not start another bot using this same list while this message is displayed.

would make sense to avoid redundancy. –Drilnoth (T • C • L) 15:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Be sure to mark the section before you begin, and remove the note when your trial is complete. – Quadell ^(talk) 16:49, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Fixed this section section using AWB Locos ~ epraix Beaste~praix 02:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't looked at many of the edits, but there are a few things I think are worth mentioning:

• It's not specifically related to the bot, but when you finish the locally listed articles but there are still ones left on the toolserver page, you should just remove the list and not the whole section. That way other users know that there are still some left.
• You should probably add to your bot's edit summary what list you are working through at any given time, to make it easier to check for "pseudo-false positives" (those where the bot didn't do anything wrong, but just didn't fix the error detected by the CHECKWIKI script).

–Drilnoth (T • C • L) 02:17, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll make that in the future. Locos ~ epraix Beaste~praix 02:22, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. – Quadell ^(talk) 14:48, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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