Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/NoomBot 4
- 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
Approved.
Operator: Noommos (talk · contribs)
Time filed: 01:25, Saturday April 2, 2011 (UTC)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Auto
Programming language(s): PHP
Source code available: On request
Function overview: Moves stock ticker templates from fields within {{Infobox company}} to the new | traded_as field.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot request and field implementation
Edit period(s): One time run, perhaps a few rare runs afterwards
Estimated number of pages affected: Not sure on amount of pages using stock ticker templates, but the bot is set to cycle through approximately 35k articles using the infobox template.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: The bot will scan the pages using {{Infobox company}} for any usages of a stock ticker template. If the bot finds one or more (not in the traded_as field already), then it will create a new field (traded_as), remove it from the old field and update the infobox.
Discussion
[edit]See [1] for an example of the bots function. Noom talk contribs 11:39, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz talk 01:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Trial complete. A couple of stock ticker templates weren't being tracked, but are now. Also improved the bots ability to remove unnecessary formatting that was wrapped around the stock ticker templates. Noom talk contribs 12:48, 4 April 2011 (UTC)- {{BAG assistance needed}}
Approved. MBisanz talk 14:22, 14 April 2011 (UTC)- 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.
