Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/The Sky Bot

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The Sky Bot

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

Time filed: 00:48, Sunday, November 12, 2023 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Replace {{ct}} with {{UCI team code}}

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template_talk:UCI_team_code#Requested_move_30_October_2023

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 11,500

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: Making use of regex {{ct\|(.*?)}} to replace transclusions of {{ct}} with {{UCI team code}} in the article namespace, in preparation of usurpation of {{ct}} redirect for {{Contentious topics}}.

Going by the linkcount tool, there are currently 11,400+ articles to be worked on, and 200-300 non-article namespace pages to look at. This bot will primarily work on the article namespace as the usage of the {{ct}} template is pretty much direct there, whilst the non-article namespaces will be worked on either manually or semi-automated manner in case of surprises.

As for the result of the regex application to find and replace the template, I have worked on some of the pages which can be seen at Special:Contributions/RobertskySemi.

If this passes, I would like to request for AWB perms for the bot account as well. Can it be granted through here, or I will have to request at the AWB perms board? – robertsky (talk) 07:32, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

Hmm. This will make old revisions very annoying to read on 11,500 articles for the benefit of creating a short redirect for {{Contentious topics}}, which is a disambiguation template and not even something we'd ever use directly? I admit I'm not a big fan of this. — The Earwig (talk) 06:26, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@The Earwig, I think this should be part of the post-closure discussion at Template_talk:UCI_team_code#Requested_move_30_October_2023 at the very least. Courtesy ping to @Awesome Aasim, who's the OP of the abovementioned move discussion that leads to this request. – robertsky (talk) 17:55, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

I would agree with Earwig. Template:Contentious topics is a placeholder template as well. I'd be suspicious that the benefits of having that at {{ct}} outweigh the negatives of breaking old page revisions. I know we'd generally give up support for old page revisions where this materially improves our ability to present or deliver content (eg appropriate TfDs), but there's definitely a weighing of pros/cons that needs to be done. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 09:33, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

I am willing to disagree. It might break old page revisions in the short term, which will be a little annoying for anyone viewing an old ID, but in the long term it will become less confusing. We could also have the Ct page read this:

<includeonly>{{UCI team code}}</includeonly><noinclude>[disambiguation stuff]</noinclude> Awesome Aasim 16:31, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. There seems to be a disparity where two different templates are using the same prefix, so that should be fixed. Primefac (talk) 08:36, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

@Primefac Trial complete. I have done 50 edits with User:The Sky Bot account via AWB, you can see the list of 50 edits at Special:Contributions/The Sky Bot (the account has only 50 edits). I have pulled out contributions at random for your quick checks: Special:Diff/1194306495, Special:Diff/1194306189, Special:Diff/1194306249, Special:Diff/1194306142, Special:Diff/1194306338, and Special:Diff/1194306172. – robertsky (talk) 08:58, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@Robertsky You can simply use TemplateBotTrialComplete in your reply to switch its status from 'in trial' to 'trial complete.' – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:56, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer: thanks for the tip! – robertsky (talk) 15:17, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

 Approved. Primefac (talk) 12:59, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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