Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VRTS Migration Bot

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Approved.

VRTS Migration Bot

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

Time filed: 07:41, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Replacement of outdated OTRS templates to generic templates per consensus of OTRS to Znuny LTS migration project team, see: phab:T280392, c:Commons:Bots/Requests/VRTS Migration Bot. Mentions of "OTRS" shall be replaced per advice from the WMF legal team per discretion of the migration team.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: No

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): phab:T280392

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: Not yet known, suspect around 1k or 10k.

Namespace(s): Mostly file and article talk, perhaps all namespaces in small amount.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Could be done if any need arises, but per nature of the task should likely be not done without special need.

Adminbot (Yes/No): Not from the start, but perhaps template editor or similar could be required later.

Function details: See c:Special:Contributions/VRTS Migration Bot. More details available on request, program code for enwiki is not complete and is to be continuously developed.

affected templates

(Additional templates may be affected later after separate discussion and approval.)

Discussion

A little background can found here here. I thought this request might be corporate legal gold-plating, but given the recent events it seems prudent. William Avery (talk) 09:10, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 09:19, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing the template as requested here is ok. But I note that replacing references in free text would likely be WP:CONTEXTBOT, and I would not include that in an approval here at this time. Anomie ⚔ 11:26, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My assumption reading the request and skimming the contribs at Commons was that it just replaces templates. After I approved the trial the bot made this edit on Commons which also replaces "OTRS" in text. To be clear, whereas CONTEXTBOT might be a possible concern indeed, I also think bot replacement of OTRS or similar in actual text needs wider community consensus. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 11:42, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Text content changes on Commons include removal of the wort OTRS only, which though sometime requires rewording of the surrounding sentence, like: c:Special:Diff/559798533 or c:Special:Diff/559786216. Such changes are not intended on enwiki, and are not part of this bot request. Should there arise any need for such edits, I think they will be of small amount and can be made manually. --Krd 13:56, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, could you please make a list of all template name replacements (before/after) this task will be doing, and drop a link to WP:VPM and Wikipedia talk:Volunteer Response Team. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 13:57, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done as requested. --Krd 10:10, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There appears to be no objection after a week in the started discussions. I tried to make more test edits today but am now run stuck in the rate limit. --Krd 07:30, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It was already approved for trial above. With regards to rate limits, a bot flag shouldn't be necessary to edit at the speeds described in WP:BOTPERF (1 edit every 5-10 secs). I would also suggest moving the two pages to the new title (by RM or otherwise), because that'd be necessary anyway, and also would better serve as the consensus for the change. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:24, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The templates are moved and test edit are made as requested, see: Special:Contributions/VRTS Migration Bot. --Krd 07:10, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ProcrastinatingReader: if you get a moment to review, I think we're ready to complete this task. Keegan (talk) 18:30, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. All looks good. For clarity, this approval is for the scope of changing the name used to call the template in wikitext. I'd recommend linking to this BRFA as approval for the task in addition to the phab ticket. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 19:19, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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