Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RileyBot 12

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Withdrawn by operator.

RileyBot 12

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

Time filed: 07:43, Saturday April 20, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: N/A

Function overview: Updates Good Articles in respect to the {{Good article}} template.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Good Article Patrol Bot

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: N/A, less than 17,340

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details:

There is a desire in the GA Project for a bot that would periodically check the Good articles; adding the template to those that don't have it, and removing the template from pages that are no longer Good articles. The bot would use Category:Wikipedia good articles as a list of actual GAs, since the category is populated by {{GA}}, which is put on talk pages of GAs and determines whether or not the article is actually a Good article. To check articles that use the template, Category:Good articles is used, since it is populated by {{Good article}}.
Run through Category:Delisted good articles and Category:Former good article nominees to make sure that {{Good article}} is not on the articles, if it is; the bot will remove the template.

Discussion

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.'·Add§hore·' ^{Talk To Me!} 17:37, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Could be tricky, but looks like a solid get-a-bot-up-and-monitoring task for an experience bot operator. -68.107.137.178 (talk) 16:31, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ran the trial but had to stop because of [1] and [2]. The issue has been fixed though (it was getting tripped by an old template from 2006). I have started my bot back up to finish the trial. -- Cheers, Riley 19:35, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, my fault—my code—sorry about that. —Theopolisme (talk) 11:29, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Going to wait two weeks before doing running the bot for the trial again because while this is a good task, there isn't many pages that need to be fixed at the moment. -- Cheers, Riley 04:11, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. Bot operator has retired. -- Cheers, Riley 23:14, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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