Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiCleanerBot
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Speedily Approved.
Operator: NicoV (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 15:26, Friday, December 21, 2018 (UTC)
Function overview: Regularly analyze enwiki dump files and generate list of pages with some problems.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic (fully automated task, only launching it is done manually after downloading the current dump file)
Programming language(s): Java
Source code available: WPCleaner on github (including the specific task subject of this BRFA)
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): Usually twice a month, once for each new dump (currently dumps are generated twice a month for enwiki, on the 1st and the 20th)
Estimated number of pages affected: currently around 50, probably won't go over 100
Namespace(s): Only Wikipedia namespace, list of errors are stored in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC xxx dump, or Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISBN errors for ISBN and Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/ISSN errors for ISSN.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No. The edited pages are not supposed to have such templates as they are supposed to be edited by bots, so the bot doesn't check for such tag.
Function details: For this function, I manually download the latest enwiki dump file, and then run the task to List different kinds of errors. The analysis is first done on the version of the article in the dump file (no access to enwiki) and if an error is spotted the current version is then checked also to check if the error is still existing. At the end of the dump analysis, the pages containing the list of errors are updated by the bot. An extra step is done to update specific pages for ISBN and ISSN errors.
I've been running this task for several years without any problem, but user SQL asked me to seek approval here, so I'm creating this page.
I would prefer that the edits are not flagged as bot edits if possible.
Discussion[edit]
- @SQL: any specific comments on this? Looks like it is long-time running and doesn't actually require a bot flag. As it is limited to editing specific pages and requires a manual 'start' each time I'm pretty good with just speedily approving for this use with no flag. — xaosflux Talk 15:32, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
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