Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/MsynBot 13
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Approved--Ymblanter (talk) 20:00, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
MsynBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: MisterSynergy (talk • contribs • logs)
Task/s: remove unnecessary use of preferred rank
Code: at Github, will be run on Toolforge via User:MsynBot
Function details: The bot queries all claims with preferred rank when there is no claim for the same property on the same item page with normal rank. Since preferred rank has no effect in these cases, the bot then lowers the rank to normal rank which is the default rank for all claims. If more than one claim (per item+property) with preferred rank is found, all of them are adjusted in a single edit. Claims with deprecated rank do not have any effect on the bot's behavior. If there are reason for preferred rank (P7452) qualifiers on the claims with ranks to be lowered, these qualifiers will be removed as they are superfluous anyways.
Adjusting ranks in this way does not impact which data is visible to end users, so query results for all reasonably written queries should be identical, and data usage on Wikipedias etc. does not change as well. However, the editing process would become easier particularly for newer users since already existing claims on an item page have the default normal rank, thus they would not interfere as much with potential new claims as pre-existing claims with preferred rank do.
There are currently ~541k statements with unnecessary preferred rank (out of 5.8M claims with preferred rank in total). Many of these exist in this condition for years.
I plan to make an initial bot run to remove all existing unnecessary use of preferred rank; subsequently, weekly jobs will take care of new cases.
There are 25 sample edits available at [1]. —MisterSynergy (talk) 07:41, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support surely needed. --Epìdosis 16:11, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]