English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 4
- 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
Approved.
Monkbot 4
Operator: Trappist the monk (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 00:00, Wednesday April 2, 2014 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AWB
Source code available: Yes (source)
Function overview: Working in Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters, replace deprecated CS1 parameters |coauthor= and |coauthors= with individual |authorn= parameters (n is a number 2–10). Task 4 operates on CS1 citations that have |coauthor= parameters that contain a comma-separated list of names where the names are in the general form: Last, First Middle.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Occasional
Estimated number of pages affected: At the time of this writing, Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters has 99,178 pages.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Full details are listed with the source.
Discussion
I have taken a brief look at this bot's code and documentation, and it looks reasonable to me. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:33, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Approved for trial (1 week). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. -- as per the other approval, just do the first couple slowly and check them please -- Tawker (talk) 07:14, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you. First 50 done. I didn't see anything untoward in those edits. The test edits are listed at Special:Contributions/Monkbot beginning at 10:46, 6 April 2014 (UTC) and ending at 10:56, 6 April 2014 (UTC). The test edits have this edit summary: Task 4: Fix CS1 deprecated coauthor parameter errors (bot trial).
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 11:17, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
- I checked all of these edits. I did not see any errors. At least half of the edits only unitalicized "et al.", a documented feature. I expect that the
|coauthors=in those articles may be fixable by one of Monkbot 4's siblings. I did not see any author counts above six. It would be nice to see a nine-author result, but that may take a while to find.
- I checked all of these edits. I did not see any errors. At least half of the edits only unitalicized "et al.", a documented feature. I expect that the
- Another 50; this time with the italicized et al., one-coauthor, and empty-coauthor rules disabled so edits were constrained to
|coauthor=name lists of 2–9 names. Here's your nine-author result.
- Another 50; this time with the italicized et al., one-coauthor, and empty-coauthor rules disabled so edits were constrained to
- Special:Contributions/Monkbot beginning at 18:25, 6 April 2014 (UTC) and ending at 21:32, 6 April 2014 (UTC).
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 21:45, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Comment - if we have lastn/firstn combinations should we not be converting the coauthor to the next available lastn/firstn for consistency of output? Keith D (talk) 18:06, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
- See my reply at BRFA/Monkbot 5 in answer to another question on the same topic.
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:24, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Trial complete.
Following the edits described above, I ran task 4 once a day, 500 edits per day, and frequently inspected random edits. I found nothing to cause concern. All of these edits are listed at Special:Contributions/Monkbot with the edit summary Task 4: Fix CS1 deprecated coauthor parameter errors (bot trial) and in this edit summary search result.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:33, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
A user has requested the attention of a member of the Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with {{t|BAG assistance needed}}. —Trappist the monk (talk) 11:55, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
