Wikinews:Bots
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All bots must be approved here to run regardless of if they need a bot flag. Non-approved bots may be blocked at an administrator's discretion. This may be for reasons such as flooding recent changes. The bot flag will not be granted to any bot that does not have the {{botblock}} template on its userpage. A bot's userpage should clearly state the bot's intended purpose and other relevant details. See also Wikinews:Global Bots.
For archived discussions, see the Archive.
To add a new bot request, click here.
Bots on WikinewsEdit
Active botsEdit
These are bots that have made any page edit or logged action within 30 days:
- BOT-Superzerocool (Talk • contribs • bot status log • actions • block log • other log)
- Revibot I (Talk • contribs • bot status log • actions • block log • other log)
Inactive botsEdit
These are bots that have not made any page edits nor logged actions within 30 days:
- Bawolff bot (Talk • contribs • bot status log • actions • block log • other log)
- GrondinBot (Talk • contribs • bot status log • actions • block log • other log)
- MikemoralBot (Talk • contribs • bot status log • actions • block log • other log)
- Trigonidiida (Talk • contribs • bot status log • actions • block log • other log)
Defunct botsEdit
Discussion about current botsEdit
- General question regarding the 'inactive bots' list above
- Block, remove bot flag or, ...? --Brian McNeil / talk 08:51, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
- I'd think, in general when a bot goes inactive for, say, a year, remove the flag. Eventually block; just to name a figure, maybe that's two years? --Pi zero (talk) 14:11, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
- Would suppose the idea that if inactive for a year, remove the flag. --LauraHale (talk) 06:43, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Discussion about new botsEdit
- The following discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
- This has been open more than a week, there's some support and no opposition. We'll see how things go. --Pi zero (talk) 02:19, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
Trigonidiida (talk · contribs)Edit
- Operator: Gryllida (talk · contribs)
- Bot name: Trigonidiida (talk · contribs)
- Programming language: Perl, https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/weabit
- Already used on: en.wn
- Task: Notify people of new drafts submissions to engage people in group topical work that allows prompt feedback on newly created articles. The notifications are delivered to a personal talk page or to email. There is more details at User:Gryllida/welcome a bit.
CommentsEdit
- Thanks to Acagastya for the feature suggestion in the vote below, I've added this to the plans for version 4. --Gryllida (talk) 01:37, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
VotesEdit
Support Though I still wonder about long-term policy on who uses this, for now it seems a reasonably positive experiment. --Pi zero (talk) 00:26, 16 May 2019 (UTC)- The description seems interesting. One suggestion (if not already implemented; notify people based on categories they like to work on, if the drafts have categories mentioned.). I am okay with this bot running (but hopefully silently). Would love to see that implemented, in this bot or the other one, Gryllida.
•–• 05:38, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
DannyS712 bot (talk · contribs)Edit
- Operator: DannyS712 (talk · contribs)
- Bot name: DannyS712 bot (Talk • contribs • bot status log • actions • block log • other log)
- Programming language: Javascript
- Already used on: None for this task
- Task: Update use-counts regularly (weekly, biweekly, monthly / up to discussion)
The below SQL query retrieves, for each template that has a "use count" sub template, the template/module name, the full number of transclusions, the number that would be put in the template (not the exact number, but some number below it to say "over xxx"), and the name of the use count page. I've only some of the results here, but the total query retrieves 61 rows
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USE enwikinews_p;
SELECT
CONCAT (
CASE
WHEN tl.tl_namespace = 10 THEN 'Template'
WHEN tl.tl_namespace = 828 THEN 'Module'
END,
':',
tl.tl_title
) AS 'Page',
COUNT(*) AS 'Transclusions',
CASE
WHEN COUNT(*) < 1000 AND MOD(COUNT(*), 100) < 60
THEN CONCAT( SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 1, LENGTH(COUNT(*)) - 2), '00' )
WHEN COUNT(*) < 1000
THEN CONCAT( SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 1, LENGTH(COUNT(*)) - 2), '50' )
WHEN COUNT(*) < 10000 AND MOD(COUNT(*), 100) < 60
THEN CONCAT( SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 1, 1), ',', SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 2, 1), '00' )
WHEN COUNT(*) < 10000
THEN CONCAT( SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 1, 1), ',', SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 2, 1), '50' )
WHEN COUNT(*) < 1000000 AND MOD(COUNT(*), 1000) < 600
THEN CONCAT( SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 1, LENGTH(COUNT(*)) - 3), ',000' )
WHEN COUNT(*) < 1000000
THEN CONCAT( SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 1, LENGTH(COUNT(*)) - 3), ',500' )
ELSE
CONCAT( SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 1, 1), '.', SUBSTR(COUNT(*), 2, 1), ' million' )
END AS 'Over',
CONCAT (
CASE
WHEN tl.tl_namespace = 10 THEN 'Template'
WHEN tl.tl_namespace = 828 THEN 'Module'
END,
':',
tl.tl_title,
'/doc/use-count/doc'
) AS 'Counter'
FROM templatelinks tl
WHERE tl.tl_title IN (
SELECT
SUBSTR(pg.page_title, 1, LENGTH(pg.page_title) - 18)
FROM
page pg
WHERE
pg.page_title LIKE '%/doc/use-count/doc'
AND pg.page_id IN (
SELECT cl.cl_from
FROM categorylinks cl
WHERE cl.cl_to = 'Possible-risk/use-count'
)
)
AND tl.tl_namespace IN (10, 828)
GROUP BY CONCAT(tl.tl_title, tl.tl_namespace)
HAVING COUNT(*) > 100
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC;
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The bot would, at a set duration, go and update each counter template with the current transclusions, to keep them (relatively) up to date. The bot will only edit pre-existing templates. Let me know if there are any questions. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 21:37, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
CommentsEdit
Comment This doesn't seem needed. I of course have long freely admitted I'm unfond of bots. So I'm left with vaguely negative feelings but, atm, not strong enough to actively oppose. --Pi zero (talk) 22:11, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
VotesEdit
InternetArchiveBot (talk · contribs)Edit
- Operator: Cyberpower678 (talk · contribs) and Harej (talk · contribs)
- Bot name: InternetArchiveBot (Talk • contribs • bot status log • actions • block log • other log)
- Programming language: PHP
- Already used on: Operates on dozens of additional Wikimedia wikis
- Task: InternetArchiveBot identifies dead links and adds links to archived versions where available. Per request on Phabricator. Harej (talk) 22:32, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
CommentsEdit
Task 1Edit
Old requirements
We needed IABot to take care of two different tasks. Upon careful discussion, it was agreed to split the tasks, the prior being taking the snapshot of all the sources in archives (currently under progress, oversee by user:acagastya); and the other being taking snapshots of all the sources for new articles. Since the first task is under progress, let's focus the discussion on just the latter task.
•–• 20:34, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Task 2Edit
- Comment @Harej: All the sources used in a mainspace article are expected to be listed in the url parameter of {{source}}. {{source}} also accepts archiveurl parameter. Could you configure IABot in such a way that it archives the sources from mainspace articles (which are NOT archived), from url and update archiveurl? @Pi zero: does this sound safe? I hope I am not overlooking something, please let me know if I am.
•–• 20:41, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- Comment Seems to me one ought to wait until publication-plus-24-hours before archiving sources. Other than that, I have no strong objection; the most technical harm that could possibly be done is quite limited. --Pi zero (talk) 21:05, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Question @Harej: Does IABot have specific triggers (like working at the time of new page creation)? Or does it work in a said time-interval? Re what @Pi zero: has added Harej, I think IABot can just check, if(wikitext.categories.includes('Published')) { run(); }. Will that work? Additionally, can you control which snapshot instance will be added to archive URL? The snapshot with timestamp closest after category:published was added will be ideal.
•–• 07:17, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Question @Harej: Would IABot be able to fill in all three parameters on {{source}} for pages with deadlinks? Namely also, brokenURL and archivedescription when links are being recovered? —chaetodipus (talk · contribs) 04:46, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
VotesEdit
Support given the limitations of the bot (the way it was designed, to serve a specific purpose), I think it is achieves a part of the task, and I am okay with the compromise.
•–• 17:34, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
- And thinking about it, if the bot does not edit semi-protected pages, we won't royally screw up. :D
•–• 17:36, 1 February 2021 (UTC)