Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Darkicebot II

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Darkicebot II

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Operator: Razorflame

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic, unsupervised.

Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia bot

Function Overview: Standardizing interwiki links on all articles here.

Edit period(s): Once every 2 weeks

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function Details: Will be using standardize_interwiki.py to standardize the interwiki links across all of the articles on the English Wikipedia. Should only need to be run once every two weeks.

Discussion

This bot is my second bot on here. Thanks, Darkicebot II (talk) 05:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Why the second bot? It looks like your original request already covers the sort of edits that this will be making. Will Darkicebot II be making edits at a higher rate? Also, will this be doing anything other than alphabetizing the interwiki links? Wronkiew (talk) 06:20, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh. You want to run it unsupervised. I see now. Wronkiew (talk) 06:21, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it will be making edits at a higher rate. It should be making at least 8 edits per minute, if not more. No, it won't be doing anything other than alphabetizing the interwiki links...it might do some interwikis if Darkicebot cannot connect for some reason, but I can't see that happening in the forseeable further. Cheers, Razorflame 06:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

How will you detect mis-ordered links? I am puzzled as you say "all" articles will be standardized - this means sorted? Rich Farmbrough, 17:31 2 March 2009 (UTC).

Yes, it means sorted. The program should automatically detect mis-ordered links and should order them. Cheers, Razorflame 19:33, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

• Since Razorflame's been doing this manually anyway, I don't see a problem with a trial. – Quadell ^(talk) 20:29, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Do I have approval for a trial run yet? Cheers, Razorflame 02:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

This seems like the kind of thing that should be done when adding or removing interwiki links or as something part of AWB general fixes. As a standalone bot, these seems like far too trivial edits to be making en masse. Mr.Z-man 17:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

If you want me to, at the same time that the standardize_interwiki.py program is running, I can run AWB and have my bot do general fixes on every single article as well (though that might be a bit of a stretch because I would have no idea how to make it make general fixes on every single article as well.) Cheers, Razorflame 18:56, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

You missed the point, I think. The answer isn't to run general fixes on every article (and if you did, you'd likely break thousands of articles and flood the revisions table needlessly). The point is to have the AWB developers incorporate any appropriate changes into AWB and deny this request altogether as unnecessary. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Very well then. You can mark this request as rejected then. Razorflame 22:41, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

• Denied. ST47 (talk) 13:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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