Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MelonBot 8

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was

Approved.

MelonBot

Operator: Happy‑melon

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Adding code to WikiProject banners

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one-time run

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: Per this discussion, we need to add to the code that does categorisation into the Category:Articles by quality tree in most WikiProject banners. Currently most banners contain code like

...
 |FA|Fa|fa=[[Category:FA-Class PROJECT articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |A|a=[[Category:A-Class PROJECT articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |GA|Ga|ga=[[Category:GA-Class PROJECT articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |B|b=[[Category:B-Class PROJECT articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Start|start=[[Category:Start-Class PROJECT articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 |Stub|stub=[[Category:Stub-Class PROJECT articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]
...

We need to add the line

 |C|c=[[Category:C-Class PROJECT articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]

filling in PROJECT as necessary. This is an easy task for AWB's find-and-replace. The only snag are the projects that have opted-out of C-Class; I intend to simply remove their banners from the list before handing it to AWB. I can't guarrantee to get them all, only the ones that have identified themselves with WP:1.0, but since it's only a 1-time run, any reverted edits won't be remade. Happy‑melon 17:58, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

On a related note, perhaps it would be better to implement a meta template of some sort instead of simply adding a line? For the most part the assessments are standardized, but the code is an ugly mess for a lot of the WikiProjects (lots of copying and pasting). Perhaps coming up with a standardized WikiProject banner would be better and then having a bot (or humans) set that up one time would be better?

If you do decide to simply add the C-class line, I would recommend figuring out what to do with the category description page. Either having a bot create it or leaving a note on the WikiProject talk page telling them to create it. And, of course, instructions (what qualifies as C-class, etc.) will need to be updated, so perhaps you could mention that in the note as well. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:17, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cough {{WPBannerMeta}} :D. Unfortunately, its deployment is still proceeding quite slowly - we have 368 banners using the template, against about 850 that aren't. This is just a quick-and-easy stopgap measure - the ultimate goal is to deploy WPBannerMeta universally or near-universally. All the C-Class categories have already been created (see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MelonBot 7!), so there shouldn't be any issues there. Many projects transclude {{grading scheme}} to serve as assessment instructions, which has been updated with the new criteria and class. Of course there are a considerable number of projects that don't do that, but the variety of the instructions they do use precludes using a bot to update those. Happy‑melon 09:01, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Looks pretty obviously useful. Let's just make sure it does what we expect. – Quadell ^(talk) 10:54, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Fifteen or so edits in the bank. No problems to note, except for a couple of protected templates that were skipped. I'll reload that list and run it through on this account at the end, I think - easiest way. Good to go? Happy‑melon 18:50, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, it's been less than 24 hours. I'm just waiting for others to have a chance to look over the changes and comment. Give it a couple days. – Quadell ^(talk) 13:38, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, if that's what you want to do. The template wasn't "I want approval now" so much as "is anyone actually listening?". Happy‑melon 13:44, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, we are always watching, mwa-ha-ha.

– Quadell ^(talk) 13:58, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Go for it. – Quadell ^(talk) 13:38, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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