Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/H3llBot 3
- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Request Expired.
Operator: H3llkn0wz (talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s): WikiSharpAPI (C#)
Source code available: Not now, I will make API available when it's actually usable.
Function overview: Reference and citation completion
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User:RjwilmsiBot is probably the relevant almost-same task bot.
Edit period(s): Continuous (when I'm online)
Estimated number of pages affected: All encountered pages with issues
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details:
1) Add title and bot comment to bare referenced external links:
- <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8759590.stm]</ref> → <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8759590.stm Users report 'fault' on iPhone 4 <!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
2) Visit the sites from a known list of sites (manually selected) and fill citations with available missing info. This includes visiting archived copy if the original is unavailable.
2.a) Remove redundant title labels:
- "BBC News - Users report 'fault' on iPhone 4" → "Users report 'fault' on iPhone 4".
2.b) Add |title=
, |date=
, |author=
, |publisher=
, |work=
and |location=
, etc. that can be unambiguously identified from sites, such as, [1] meta-data.
2.c) Change {{Cite web}} to {{Cite news}}, {{Cite journal}} and similar where appropriate.
Discussion
[edit]- This task seems pretty similar to a task once preforemed by User:DumZiBoT. Read the documentation at User:DumZiBoT/refLinks. I'd urge you to read through the opperator's talk page to see the problems he ran into. Tim1357 talk 21:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for helpful pointer. I think I'll go through all the archives and compile a list of things that need to be taken into account, then possibly do a dry run. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 22:01, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- There seems little value in you processing the news sites that RjwilmsiBot already covers - see USer:Rjwilmsi/CiteCompletion. Adding archive links or covering other non-news sites would certainly be useful. User:ThaddeusB has/had something that deals with archive links. Rjwilmsi 07:43, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm already archiving links. I was going to start with video game news sites and such, so that it does not overlap with RjwilmsiBot. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 10:50, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I would suggest sharing information with Rjw and others. Since you use pye and he uses AWB, a central repository of architecture neutral information would be potentially be usable by all. Rich Farmbrough, 03:05, 2 October 2010 (UTC).[reply]
- Yes, it would, I will make my lists and regexes available, when I have coded the thing. Also, I am using C# with my own framework, not py, so same as AWB except stand-alone. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:22, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I would suggest sharing information with Rjw and others. Since you use pye and he uses AWB, a central repository of architecture neutral information would be potentially be usable by all. Rich Farmbrough, 03:05, 2 October 2010 (UTC).[reply]
- I'm already archiving links. I was going to start with video game news sites and such, so that it does not overlap with RjwilmsiBot. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 10:50, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- There seems little value in you processing the news sites that RjwilmsiBot already covers - see USer:Rjwilmsi/CiteCompletion. Adding archive links or covering other non-news sites would certainly be useful. User:ThaddeusB has/had something that deals with archive links. Rjwilmsi 07:43, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for helpful pointer. I think I'll go through all the archives and compile a list of things that need to be taken into account, then possibly do a dry run. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 22:01, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Any update on Rich's suggestion? MBisanz talk 05:36, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I have not made any content yet, so there is nothing to share. The main task is taking too much fiddling, so I may need to put this on a hold for a while. I am aware of the BRFA and accompanying issues though. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 11:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Request Expired. As usual, if you solve those fiddly issues and want to reactivate this request, feel free to simply undo this edit and relist it. Anomie⚔ 02:51, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.