User:HersfoldBot
 | This user account is a bot operated by Hersfold (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it. |
Current status: Inactive. The operator of this bot has retired and is no longer maintaining this bot. Hersfold (t/a/c) 01:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Current Transwiki category size: -3 (this does not include the three Wikipedia: project pages which are permanently included)
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Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
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Function
[edit]HersfoldBot is a Transwiki bot between the English Wikipedia and the English Wiktionary. It uses the Special:Import API to transfer the entire attribution history of an article marked for Transwiki in Category:Copy to Wiktionary to Wiktionary's Transwiki: namespace, and logs the moves appropriately on both ends. Some articles will not be transferred automatically if they have an excessive number of revisions, or the current revision is over 5000 bytes in size. The latter size limit can be ignored once the article has been reviewed by a human editor.
Future updates
[edit]To suggest an update to the bot, please contact Hersfold. Suggestions for updates should relate to the bot's current task; if you would like a bot to perform a totally different task, please make your request at WP:BOTREQ.
- None currently
Completed updates
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Won't fix: Removing disambiguation from titles ("Shaw (woodland)" → "shaw")The import API does not permit the bot to specify a target title that is different from the source. Stripping out the disambiguation causes the bot to import the wrong page. This can be dealt with on the destination wiki following editing.
Done: Have the bot ignore |date= parameters in the transwiki templates.- Done: Constructors need to be fixed to prevent two bots from running at once. Right now they're tripping over each other and causing problems.
- Done: Have the bot strip out redlinks and nonexistent templates on the imported version of the article
- Won't fix
Adding functionality to import to other English-language projects.This doesn't seem to be worth it, as most other projects either don't import enough or are so substantially different from Wikipedia that the process needs to be done manually. If you're from another project and you feel this bot could be useful there, please let me know. - Done: Set the bot so it handles Template: being present in the transwiki template.
- Done: Set the bot so that duplicate transwiki templates on a long page do not cause multiple manual review templates to be added. (as of v1.2.16)
Trial run pages
[edit]When operating in trial mode, the bot will not edit live log pages, but instead subpages below. Logs generated by the bot during trial runs will also be copied in by the operator.
/Wikipedia:Transwiki log/Articles moved from here/en.wiktionary - /Trial run log