Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 6

SmackBot

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
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• flag)

Operator: Rich Farmbrough

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Auto.

Programming Language(s): AWB/Regex

Function Summary:Replace "cleanup" tag

Edit period(s) : Occasional unless integrated with regular task.

Edit rate requested: say max 1 edit per min (expected to be much slower)

Already has a bot flag (Y):

Function Details: On disambiguation pages with a cleanup template replace "{{cleanup}}" and "{{disambig}}" with "{{Disambig-cleanup}}" template.

Discussion

Fairly trivial. Rich Farmbrough, 16:13 2 March 2007 (GMT).

Ok one question, how do you plan on getting the list of items? Do you plan on iterating through the cleanup category? If so may I suggest a faster method (should allow you to increase your edit speed). Take the intersection of the whatlinks here for both {{cleanup}} and {{disambig}}. Whatever is in both of those, run your bot on. Of course you would double check that the page really does have those templates. Just a thought as to speed up your bot. —— Eagle101 ^{Need help?} 20:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

The intersection method is what I used. I then used a set up that checked the presence of tags and made the appropriate changes. Since there were only 40 items, I did them by hand. However approval would still be appreciated for ongoing changes. Rich Farmbrough, 13:44 13 March 2007 (GMT).