Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RagesossBot

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Approved.

RagesossBot

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

Time filed: 18:58, Wednesday February 26, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python (pywikibot)

Source code available: I've requested space on gerrit to maintain the source code, but for now it's quite simple. I've pasted the source here: User:RagesossBot/coursesupportlinker.py.

Function overview: To replace links to course pages on Wikipedia:Education noticeboard and Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Incidents with the helper template {{course link}}, which shows some extra contextual information about courses.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard#idea:_showing_who_is_supporting_each_course

(It's not a very significant discussion, but then again it's a pretty minor task that only affects two pages.)

Edit period(s): Continuous (once I figure out how, if not immediately)

Estimated number of pages affected: 2

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details:

Search the text of Wikipedia:Education noticeboard and Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Incidents for plain wikilinks to course pages (that is, links that start [[Education Program: ) and replace the links with the {{course link}} template.
The bots exclusion template isn't relevant at this point, since it's only going to work on two pages.
The bot can be easily disabled by changing the text of its control page, User:RagesossBot/control. This is documented on the bot's userpage.

Discussion

(BotTrial|1 week) — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 22:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The bot has been running for one week now, but it has not actually had an chance to do its job, because there have not been any links to course pages on the noticeboards. The bot performed a single edit after I added a course page link just to verify that it was on and working. Based on that, it seems to work as expected, but I'd like to keep it running for a longer trial until there are some real chances for it to do its work.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 14:06, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to run it as long as needed to accumulate enough edits. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 14:59, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

((OperatorAssistanceNeeded)) Did this ever get enough edits and can it be approved? Thanks. MBisanz ^talk 18:34, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

MBisanz: I still hasn't had a chance to do very many edits... it's been a surprisingly quiet term for course-specific issues on the noticeboards. But it seems to be working as intended so far.--ragesoss (talk) 15:26, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Ragesoss: any updates? Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 17:48, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Snowolf: Not really. I've had to restart the crontab a few times, but it's been so quiet in terms of discussion of courses that use the extension that the bot hasn't had much to do. I'm comfortable with how it's working, but I'm happy to leave it as a trial until it has a chance to do more edits, if necessary.--ragesoss (talk) 14:49, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

((BotExtendedTrial|days=30|edits=50)) (recordkeeping) Trial is extended to gather more sample edits. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:25, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Ragesoss: did you start the extended bot trial? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:54, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Magioladitis: Yes. I haven't shut the bot off, but the noticeboards were unusually quiet in terms of links to courses this last term -- and now typically quiet during US summer break. The bot seemed really useful last year when there were so many specific courses with issues being discussed on the noticeboards, but (hurray!) not so much recently.--ragesoss (talk) 21:15, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ragesoss, anything in the last month? MBisanz ^talk 20:03, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The bot has made a couple more edits, and there haven't been any problems. It's unlikely to make all that many more edits before September, when things start to pick up with new courses.--ragesoss (talk) 23:43, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Ragesoss: It's been more than 30 days. What is the status of this one? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:32, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

More or less the same as before. It's working fine, although it has few edits.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:38, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Approved.. Still better than doing manually. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:45, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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