Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/UnCatBot

UnCatBot

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic with manual oversight every so often

Programming Language(s): AWB (C#/VisualBasic)

Function Summary: To be an automated AWB tagging bot that will add the uncategorized, orphan, and wikify templates to all pages that do not already have them, in Special:Uncategorizedpages.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Whenever the cache of Special:Uncategorizedpages is updated, then continuously until done.

Edit rate requested: 3 edits per minute

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

Function Details: Pretty much summed up in Summary. I don't really intend to modify AWB in any way as I'm still very new to coding and really only have marginal experience with html and php. This is the text from the AWB user manual:

“

Auto tag — Appends {{wikify}}, {{uncategorised}}, {{stub}} and {{orphan}} tags when appropriate. Removes stub tags from long articles. Adds the date parameter to the by-date sorted templates.

”

So that is basically what I am requesting. I have already manually gone through the Uncategorized pages once (see my Contribs), and there wasn't an edit in there that I had to click ignore on. It gets extremely tedious staring at the AWB screen for 3 or 4 hours just clicking save.

Discussion

I created the pages for you. <DREAMAFTER> ^<TALK> 22:57, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the operator to the correct operator name (it was the bot's). Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 22:58, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

lol, thanks :D. --Nn123645 (talk) 23:11, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed a request on Wikipedia:Bot_requests to add the uncat tag to articles, which is pretty much what this bot is intended to do so I would like to extend the edit periods to allow for making requests by editors or browsing of all pages based on a database dump. --Nn123645 (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Uncategorizedpages is often broken, for example the very first entry on the list 'Til Death was already in seven categories at the time of the update listed. Will you be doing sanity checking to NOT tag pages that actually are categorized? — xaosflux ^Talk 04:17, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, that page is broken and is (at least currently) failing to list beyond 1000 entries. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:20, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As per the first concern, I would simply setup AWB to skip any article to which there are no changes to be made. AWB does not add templates to articles if the template that it is going to add already exists on the page.

As per the second concern, to my understanding the page isn't broken, just cached, if I had to guess to the reason I would guess it would have something to do with performance. It is this reason that I have requested to run it every time I notice a update in the page. --Nn123645 (talk) 04:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In example one above, the page was well categorized, and did not contain any uncategorized templates, you request also appears that you will be adding this template to pages that don't have it, how are you configuring the skip on these? (I didn't see it as a native AWB action). — xaosflux ^Talk 06:15, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know the last time more then 1000 entries were actually available on this page? — xaosflux ^Talk 06:15, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have uploaded an image here of the skip option highlighted. Based on what I have seen from manually going through the pages AWB does not add the uncategorized template if it sees catagories. Apparently the reason the page you linked to showed up on Uncat pages is because of an incomplete cite template. (see this diff).

Per the second comment, no I do not know the last time more than 1,000 entries were available on the page. I have noticed that the page is cached as previously mentioned ("The following information is cached, and was last updated 02:49, December 22, 2007." on the top of the page.). I'm not really trying to be able to find uncategorized articles in real time not on Special:Uncategorizedpages, though that could be a possible feature which could be implemented at a later time. (possibly using database dumps?) --Nn123645 (talk) 07:18, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have you noticed that User:BetacommandBot has done this, and continues to do this? <DREAMAFTER> ^<TALK> 17:32, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Diff One and Diff Two. <DREAMAFTER> ^<TALK> 17:33, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Someone pointed that out to me on IRC last night, when I filed the request I was unaware that Betacommand bot did that (I thought it only did images lol). I was able to find two inactive bots that did this task User:stwalkerbot (which I found before I opened this request) and User:UncatTemplateBot (which I was unaware of until after I opened this request). --Nn123645 (talk) 17:39, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]