Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/William Avery Bot
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Operator: William Avery (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 20:04, Sunday, March 4, 2018 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Javascript (Node.js)
Source code available: https://bitbucket.org/WilliamAvery/willsnodebot/src
Function overview: Move all pages for mollusc taxa that have a year of description to the appropriate year category under Category:Molluscs_by_century_of_formal_description. Many are currently directly under the "Animals described in..." categories. Move gastropod taxa to subcategories of the molluscs-by-year-of-description categories, with names beginning "Gastropods described in". None of the gastropod-by-year-of-description categories have been set up yet, as far as I know.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Gastropods#Populating_the_"Molluscs_described_in_YYYY"_categories
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Bivalves#Populating_the_"Molluscs_described_in_YYYY"_categories
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cephalopods#Populating_the_"Molluscs_described_in_YYYY"_categories
Edit period(s): A series of one-time runs, tackling one year of description at a time
Estimated number of pages affected: 30 thousand. See for instance Category:Stub-Class_Gastropods_articles
Namespace(s): Mainspace/articles
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details:
- For non-gastropod molluscs currently placed in animal categories
- Regular expression "(\\[\\[\\s*Category\\:\\s*)(Animals)(\\s*described\\s*in\\s*\\d\\d\\d\\d\\s*\\|?[^\\]]*\\]\\])"
- Substitution string "$1Molluscs$3"
- For gastropod molluscs currently placed in animal or mollusc categories
- Regular expression "(\\[\\[\\s*Category\\:\\s*)(Animals|Molluscs)(\\s*described\\s*in\\s*\\d\\d\\d\\d\\s*\\|?[^\\]]*\\]\\])"
- Substitution string "$1Gastropods$3"
Candidate pages for each kind of update can be generated from PetScan queries. e.g. for year 1880
- Non-gastropods under animal category
- Gastropods under animal category
- Gastropods under mollusc category
Discussion
[edit]- Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please do 25 of each type and report back here. — xaosflux Talk 02:15, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Trial complete. Edits to non-gastropod molluscs Edits to gastropod molluscs
- Thank you for allowing me to run this germ of a tool at an early stage. The PetScan queries correctly selected candidate pages. The changes to categorisation of the pages were as specified. I have noticed a slight problem with the link in the edit summaries intended to take users to this page, in that I mistakenly used "[[WP:BRFA#William_Avery_Bot]]", when it should be to "[[WP:Bots/Requests for approval/William Avery Bot]]". I have corrected this error. diff William Avery (talk) 15:56, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Checking back later, I noticed that Category:Gastropods described in 1880 was now one snail short of the 25 previously present. I have invited comment at User talk:Simuliid#Your edit to Hydrobia glyca. William Avery (talk) 21:54, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Anything further required? I'm not getting any younger :-)
- Approved. ~ Rob13Talk 15:36, 9 April 2018 (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.