Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ArmadilloProcessBot

ArmadilloProcessBot

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Operator: ArmadilloFromHell

Manually Assisted:Yes

Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia framework

Function Summary:To scan through User pages listed in userbox/template categories - to make a list of user pages that should be edited to remove the template category/ies. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#User_pages_in_template_categories

Edit period(s) : As required, probably a few times a day until the problems as cleared up, then once or twice a month.

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per minute

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

Function Details: The initial version of the bot will not do any user page (or article) editing, just create a list to see what the possible workload is.

Discussion

So it crawls through a list of template categories and finds user pages? That seems like a lot of page requesting. Also, where does it get the list of template categories from?Voice-of-All 19:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Please Make a suerpage for your bot. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:36, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry - the link was wrong --ArmadilloFromHell 20:58, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Starting at Category:User templates it would find all subcategories e.g. Category:Food user templates. In each of the categories and subcategories it would find entries beginning with User: (I'm only interested in top level User pages, as opposed to subpages) as opposed to Template: and create a unique list of those, together with a count of many times each is found. --ArmadilloFromHell 21:11, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Im not sure you want to use python. Python has a bug with userpages. (I know I have pywiki) I would sugest AWB. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 13:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, I just applied. However, I'm sure I tried it in the past and it would not work, but I'm on a new computer with a freshly installed WinXP so maybe it will be ok now. --ArmadilloFromHell 14:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)