Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 2

DannyS712 bot 2

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Operator: DannyS712 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 02:35, Tuesday, January 8, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Add {{WikiProject Soil}} to talk pages per request (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bot_requests&diff=877156145&oldid=877118167&diffmode=source)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: <1261 pages (not accounting for duplicated pages or those already having the wikiproject tag)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details:

AWB:

1. Make list from category
2. Convert to talk pages
3. Preparse to remove if {{WikiProject Soil}} already present
4. Prepend wikiproject tag.

Analyzed list of categories, including individual sizes

Category:Soil - 108 Category:Soil by country - 48 (including Chile and US sub categories) Category:Types of soil - 140 Category:Alkaline soils - 4 Category:Serpentine soils - 2 Category:Volcanic soils - 5 Category:Soil improvers - 59 Category:Soil mechanics - 67 Category:Soil tests - 20 Category:Soil science - 87 Category:Soil scientists - 92 (including individual country sub categories) Category:Agricultural soil science - 55 Category:Soil biology - 82 Category:Soil chemistry - 34 Category:Edaphology - 10 Category:Environmental soil science - 91 Category:Environmental issues with soil - 9 Category:Pedology - 191 Category:Regolith - 11 Category:Soil physics - 58 Category:Soil erosion - 18 Category:Soil science in India - 5 Category:Soil science-related lists - 10 Category:Soil science stubs - 55 Total (not accounting for duplicated): 1261

Discussion

How many talk pages are expected to be edited with this run? Primefac (talk) 20:14, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

@Primefac: Less than 1261 pages will be edited. For a trial, you may want to choose one of the small categories listed in the "Analyzed list" (which includes individual sizes) and I can check every edit manually afterwards. --DannyS712 (talk) 21:12, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Followup questions:

1. What do you mean by Preparse to remove if {{WikiProject Soil}} already present?
2. Are you just adding the template, or are you also assessing?

Primefac (talk) 21:28, 8 January 2019 (UTC) (please do not ping on reply)

Here is what I would do with AWB:

1. Tell AWB to skip a page if it already contains {{WikiProject Soil
2. Turn on "pre-parse" mode, and run

   This means that, rather than editing each article that is not skipped before proceeding, it saves articles that should be edited, and skips those that shouldn't be

   Thus, at the end, I know that the list I have does not contain any pages that already have {{WikiProject Soil}}

   For more information, see Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual#Options

3. Turn off pre-parse mode, and prepend {{WikiProject Soil |class= |importance= }} to the remaining talk pages

   This would not actually assess the article itself. I can see a future task where, for pages already tagged as stubs, |class= | is replaced with |class=stub |, but that is not part of this request.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:42, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} --DannyS712 (talk) 03:00, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

• Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 00:36, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

  Trial complete. I'm going to review each of the edits, and will link to my analysis. --DannyS712 (talk) 01:15, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

  Edits and issues documented at User:DannyS712 bot/Task 2 Trial analysis --DannyS712 (talk) 01:32, 20 January 2019 (UTC)