Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Numberguy6Bot

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Approved.

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Operator: Numberguy6 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 15:48, Sunday, April 21, 2024 (UTC)

Function overview: Sorting Template:Expand language by topic category

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Self-written; not available yet

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 20,000

Namespace(s): Main

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Goes through pages marked with Template:Expand language, and sorts them by topic, based on categories that the page is in (e.g. "Living people").

Discussion

Sort where? Could you please give an example of an edit this bot would make? Primefac (talk) 08:02, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Numberguy6 (talk) 15:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How would it categorise a page such as 1976 in Venezuela? Primefac (talk) 11:58, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My bot would not categorize all articles. It would only do the ones where the topic is obvious, e.g. articles in Category:Living people. Numberguy6 (talk) 13:13, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 11:33, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All contributions are under Special:Contributions/Numberguy6Bot. Numberguy6 (talk) 15:38, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Numberguy6 (talk) 17:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have now fixed the bot so that, if the template contains a blank or invalid "topic" parameter, the bot deletes it (instead of letting there be duplicate parameters). Numberguy6 (talk) 16:01, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for extended trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. I have restored the original state for the following five pages; please run the bot on them again to demonstrate the coding changes you made work as intended: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Primefac (talk) 12:54, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Numberguy6 (talk) 16:16, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Um... that's more than five edits. Are the five pages I asked for in there? I only see the fourth. Primefac (talk) 16:20, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1 2 3 4 5 Numberguy6 (talk) 16:31, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Primefac: I did more than five edits because I wanted the bot to cycle through the articles in alphabetical order, like it normally does, to make sure there weren't any bugs there. Numberguy6 (talk) 16:17, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Primefac (talk) 13:13, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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