Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Alaibot 2

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Approved.

Alaibot

Operator: Alai

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Python (replace.py from pywikipedia)

Function Summary: Parameterising {{importance}} by month

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one time run to clear existing category; manually re-run as needed thereafter

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per minute

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

Function Details: It's been proposed that Category:Wikipedia articles with topics of unclear importance, which is getting quite large, be split up by month, on the pattern of the various maintenance resources in Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month. (Discussion here and here.) Doing this seems straightforward technically: a number of initial runs, based on database category timestamps, to split the current category (about 5,000 edits total) by adding a parameter to existing template usages. Thereafter on the order of up to about 2,000 per month at current rates of tagging (run probably roughly weekly, or more often (up to daily) if there's a backlog). Alai 16:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

sounds ok can we get a few diffs? Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 16:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You certainly can: here's 10: [1]. Alai 17:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Task approved. Voice-of-All 19:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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