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Operator:
SunCreator (
talk ·
contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Manually-assisted
Programming language(s): None,
AWB
Source code available: If required, I can make the source code available in the form of AWB settings files.
Function overview: I am using AWB to inspect a lot of articles as part of
WP:URBLP related checking. Hunting for articles that are missing/incorrect categories or WPBiography tags.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): There is a bot
User:LivingBot that does similar tasks, but
I've heard it's not working lately. Here I'm trying to find things that have previously been missed and thus the appropriate
Category:Living people or similar is missing.
Edit period(s): Daily for a while until exhausted checked for BLP's.
Estimated number of pages affected: In some case the bot may add/remove
Category:Living people, date of birth and age, birth/death year/unknown/missing category, living=yes/no. If that does result it will be manually-assisted.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N):
Function details: I am using AWB to build a list of articles, it returns a partial list of a maximum 25000 articles. The categories I wish to check are found in
Category:Biography_articles_by_quality and some of those surpass the 25000 limit. To go beyond 25000 one must use a bot account, hence I find myself filling in this request!
- Hey SunCreator! Im glad you've taken an interest in operating bots! While I do not know the full details of what you want to do, this kind of bot task seems to lend itself to
SQL. If that is true, it will save you loads of time to use a
Database query to build your list rather then AWBs functions. What, exactly, will you be parsing for? I may be able to help.
Tim
1357
talk
03:20, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
reply
- Hi Tim, yes, much of this could be done with a Database query, I am familiar with SQL. Here would be some obvious starters of conflicting data between something indicating a person is alive and something indicating they are dead.
- Moved database report criteria to =>
Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Living_people_possibly_deceased_or_deceased_people_possibly_living
- Regards,
SunCreator (
talk)
04:41, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
reply
LivingBot never really did it very efficiently anyway, best of luck to you. -
Jarry1250
Humorous?
Discuss.
19:38, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
reply
- Thank you! I think it's useful to clarify that I'm not replacing LivingBot or any other automated bot(learnt of
User:Yobot recently). I'd like access to more then 25000 articles in category so that I can correct errors like
226 year old(infobox age), the now deleted
Duck, marked as a BLP, this 'living' ceramic duck
File:Roberto the duck.jpg - actual picture that was in the infobox and was aged 1 year old in the infobox. Numerous other
B
L
Ps that for reasons unknown aren't marked with
Category:Living people even if they are on the
talk page. Regards,
SunCreator (
talk)
00:31, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
reply
- You should grab a database dump. Last one is 12th march, but they should be running again soon.
Rich
Farmbrough,
15:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC).
reply
- I like the idea as using the database scanner is fast. Unfortunately my hard disk has only 30Gb free so I can't download the zip file let alone uncompress it. Regards,
SunCreator (
talk)
21:48, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
reply
- There is always
WP:DDR for dump scans, if you don't mind waiting for other people to do the scan for you.
Tim
1357
talk
03:28, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
reply
- You don't need 30gb to d/l the dump it is about 4-5 G but it is 27 G uncompressed. You can scan the compressed dump but not with AWB.
Rich
Farmbrough,
19:34, 20 June 2010 (UTC).
reply
What's the status of this?
Josh Parris
02:29, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
reply
- Really, what is the status of this? Nothing has been happening; I'm inclined to expire just because there's no activity at all. —
The Earwig
(talk)
19:39, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
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- What? Am I suppose to use the bot without getting approval? Regards,
SunCreator (
talk)
08:47, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
reply
You do not seem to be on wikibreak anymore, judging by
Special:Contributions/SunCreator. Do you intend to resume this request?
Anomie
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00:03, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
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