Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 22

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Approved.

Qwerfjkl (bot) 22

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

Time filed: 19:18, Friday, September 8, 2023 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: pywikibot

Function overview: Converting Gutenberg author IDs from strings to actual IDs

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Gutenberg author IDs

Edit period(s): one time run (can be run again if necessary in the future)

Estimated number of pages affected: 7000 (estimated, based on a sample of pages)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: It will check all pages with {{Gutenberg author}}. Then, if it has an ID parameter that is non-numeric, it will query https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/authors/search/?query= with it and if there is only one result from that, it will use that result's ID for {{Gutenberg author}}.

Discussion

Here's a few replacements the code would make:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/authors/search/?query=Burr,+Aaron

with https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2717

(It would actually be modifying the template, I've just used the URLs for convenience.) — Qwerfjkl talk 19:39, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nice. Thanks for doing it! Added this RFA to my watchlist. I am the original author of Module:Gutenberg. The module can pull IDs from Wikidata, and the work here could be used to update Wikidata. Ideally we hard-code the numbers on enwiki per this RFA, it will be safer since Wikidata is more prone to vandalism and mistakes and harder for users to figure out and update. -- GreenC 00:01, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.

@@Primefac,

Trial complete. See these 50 contribs. — Qwerfjkl talk 17:37, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I checked them for syntax errors (none) and spot checked those with common names to make sure there were no disambiguation errors with multiple names and they all looked good also. -- GreenC 17:55, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've been having some issues querying gutenberg org, that's why this thing took a few days to complete. — Qwerfjkl talk 17:58, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Is it bot blocking, or just slow/intermittent response? It was responding slow for me via browser. -- GreenC 16:47, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenC, the latter. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:59, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Primefac (talk) 09:50, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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