Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ProcBot 2.5

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ProcBot 2.5

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

Time filed: 20:26, Thursday, September 24, 2020 (UTC)

Function overview: Extension of task 2 to allow for general maintenance of date params in television-related infoboxes

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Ruby

Source code available:

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:ProcrastinatingReader#Initial_run_complete

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 5000 initial run

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Task 2 was approved to convert text dates to date templates, tracking Category:Pages using infobox television with nonstandard dates. Initial run of task 2 has been completed, but 5000 pages remain in the category. These have various issues, ranging from the wrong template being used (eg {{start date}} for |end_date=), to wikilinks in dates, invalid values, start and end dates both in start_date, uppercase "Present", and likely other formatting issues we haven't considered yet (since there's 5000 pages currently, hard to know all of what's wrong with them). Thus, requesting an open ended maintenance approval (as described in the function overview). Aim is to fix the obvious, repeated errors, so the category numbers are more manageable for human review of the remaining contextual cases.

Discussion

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 14:55, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Trial complete. Edits. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 16:57, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

 Approved. Other than the fact that you're linking to the wrong bot task, looks good. Primefac (talk) 15:40, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

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