Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Pi's Bot

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Withdrawn by operator.

Pi's Bot[edit]

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Operator: Pi (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 20:15, Sunday, May 13, 2018 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): VBA

Source code available: No

Function overview:To add WikiProject tags and set taskforce parameters for Reality TV Taskforce

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Wikiproject_task_force_tagging_(Reality_TV). This is a replacement of the previous request Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/The_Little_Pixie's_Friend

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 8,493 (approx, the data will be re-validated due to the time elapsed since the last request)

Namespace(s):Talkspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):Yes

Function details:A request was made on Wikipedia:Bot_requests for articles in certain categories to be tagged with the WikiProject Television template (if not already added) and to set the Reality TV Taskforce flag to true. I have written by first bot in order to complete this task.

A list of the articles in the categories that I have compiled is here

I will limit edits to one every 10 seconds, or another limit that is recommended.

Discussion[edit]

Approved for trial (60 edits or 15 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:31, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please trial and report back results here. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:31, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Sorry I only just saw this was approved, I'll be on it tomorrrow Pi (Talk to me!) 22:58, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. I have completed the initial trial. The report on the edited pages is here: User:Pi's Bot/RealityTV Pi (Talk to me!) 21:54, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pi: For Bill Murray & Brian Doyle-Murray's Extra Innings, the bot didn't edit it's talk page, it edited Bill Murray's talk page instead[1]. I assume something went off with the "&" with boolean operations or something. WikiVirusC^(talk) 22:18, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also a few edits added the tag but also some error code from the script to the talk page. Talk:Zee Super Talents, Talk:Zee Dance League, and Talk:Cheer Squad are three that I found. It seems to be on articles in which a new page was created. Along with the error message on talk page, on the report page it posted the diff from the previous article. Talk:The Voice – Magyarország hangja had a similar error on table where it used the diff from the article two rows above it(one in between was SATISFIED), but no edit was made at all on Talk:The Voice – Magyarország hangja, instead newly created Talk:The Voice â€“ Magyarország hangja was made. Error with the "–" it seems. I'm sure you are looking through the report as well, I'm just listing the things I found. WikiVirusC^(talk) 22:34, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot tagged Talk:The Voice (TV series), which was a redirect. This broke the redirect (I noticed this when the page landed in Category:Unsynchronized talk page redirects). Check for pages beginning #REDIRECT, and don't put project templates on them. – wbm1058 (talk) 14:52, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm going through the list of edits and correcting anything that needs correcting. I have a few things to fix. There was a bug about how it deals with non-existent pages, and then I need to deal with redirects.Pi (Talk to me!) 21:07, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The list of articles to run bot on was generated back in March, several pages probably have been moved/deleted since then, hence the issue with The Voice. WikiVirusC^(talk) 10:23, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I have made changes to the code to solve the issues from the first test. I have also manually checked all of the edits. I would now like to do another test run. Pi (Talk to me!) 21:28, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for extended trial (50 edits or 20 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. @Pi: OK. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:58, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Pi: do you still want to pursue this? — xaosflux ^Talk 02:44, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, yes, I'll work on this this evening Pi (Talk to me!) 13:40, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry I've been very tied up at work this week (making bots for web integration, no less). I'll be able to pick it up at the weekend. Pi (Talk to me!) 20:25, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

comment, this bot mangles talk pages[2], and even with the bot operator's intervention, the problem isn't fixed[3][4]. I am not confident that this bot can operate safely. Frietjes (talk) 15:13, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn by operator. Hi, I'm going to have to withdraw this for now, partly because I don't have the free time I had back in May, and because of the slow progress of getting approval for additional testing. I honestly can't remember how the bot works now. I will ensure that I review and fix what's necessary in the recent edits. Pi (Talk to me!) 21:43, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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