Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Pi bot 2

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

Pi bot 2

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

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

Time filed: 23:47, Saturday, October 14, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python (pywikibot)

Source code available: User:Mike Peel/WHS script

Function overview: Move uses of {{Infobox World Heritage Site}} that only use Wikidata to a Wikidata-specific version so that the main version can have Wikidata calls removed from it.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template_talk:Infobox_World_Heritage_Site#RfC:_revert_back_to_non-Wikidata_version.3F

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 900-1000

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No, not relevant in this situation

Function details: The bot as written will move calls to {{Infobox World Heritage Site}} that entirely use Wikidata information to a separate version of the template (which will be created before this run) so that the main version of the template can have Wikidata functionality removed from it. Calls with a mix of local and Wikidata info will be manually changed. There is an ongoing RfC about this, linked to above, and it looks like this will be the minimum outcome, hence this preparatory bot request. A more extreme outcome may be substitution of the Wikidata information back into the articles, which will be subject to another bot request. The bot will only be run if this is part of the conclusion of the RfC. Mike Peel (talk) 23:47, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

@Mike Peel: Could you do one edit manually/from your main account, so we have an example of what exactly it is you are proposing? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:51, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

@Headbomb: [1] Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:58, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

 On hold. Judging from the state of that RFC, I'm not comfortable moving to trial. Let's revisit this when the RFC is over. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:35, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Sure, that's fine. TBH, I wasn't expecting so quick a response here. :) Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 00:56, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

• Strongly oppose. There is no valid purpose to be served by converting ~1000 articles to a redundant template, especially when consensus has been established to convert articles using this template to non-wikidata. The sole purpose of such a bot-run would be to circumvent consensus. Alsee (talk) 21:42, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
• Withdrawn by operator. Given the opposition to bot work on this topic by @Alsee and @Fram, I withdraw this request. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:34, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Revisiting RfC after it is over

• See open discussion at Template talk:Infobox World Heritage Site#Discussion (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Pi bot 2). --Francis Schonken (talk) 11:15, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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.