Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SunCreatorBot
Operator: SunCreator (talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Manually-assisted
Programming language(s): None, AWB
Source code available: If required, I can make the source code available in the form of AWB settings files.
Function overview: I am using AWB to inspect a lot of articles as part of WP:URBLP related checking. Hunting for articles that are missing/incorrect categories or WPBiography tags.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): There is a bot User:LivingBot that does similar tasks, but I've heard it's not working lately. Here I'm trying to find things that have previously been missed and thus the appropriate Category:Living people or similar is missing.
Edit period(s): Daily for a while until exhausted checked for BLP's.
Estimated number of pages affected: In some case the bot may add/remove Category:Living people, date of birth and age, birth/death year/unknown/missing category, living=yes/no. If that does result it will be manually-assisted.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N):
Function details: I am using AWB to build a list of articles, it returns a partial list of a maximum 25000 articles. The categories I wish to check are found in Category:Biography_articles_by_quality and some of those surpass the 25000 limit. To go beyond 25000 one must use a bot account, hence I find myself filling in this request!
Discussion
- Hey SunCreator! Im glad you've taken an interest in operating bots! While I do not know the full details of what you want to do, this kind of bot task seems to lend itself to SQL. If that is true, it will save you loads of time to use a Database query to build your list rather then AWBs functions. What, exactly, will you be parsing for? I may be able to help. Tim1357 talk 03:20, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Tim, yes, much of this could be done with a Database query, I am familiar with SQL. Here would be some obvious starters of conflicting data between something indicating a person is alive and something indicating they are dead.
- Moved database report criteria to => Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Living_people_possibly_deceased_or_deceased_people_possibly_living
- Regards, SunCreator (talk) 04:41, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Tim, yes, much of this could be done with a Database query, I am familiar with SQL. Here would be some obvious starters of conflicting data between something indicating a person is alive and something indicating they are dead.