MyWiki:Bots/Requests for approval/AussieBot 2

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AussieBot 2

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Operator: Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 11:00, Wednesday, June 18, 2025 (UTC)

Function overview: The Bot will go through:

• Category:Start-Class articles conflicting with C-Class project-independent quality rating (0),
• Category:Stub-Class articles conflicting with C-Class project-independent quality rating (0),
• Category:C-Class articles conflicting with Start-Class project-independent quality rating (0),
• Category:Stub-Class articles conflicting with Start-Class project-independent quality rating (0),
• Category:Start-Class articles conflicting with Stub-Class project-independent quality rating (0),
• Category:C-Class articles conflicting with Stub-Class project-independent quality rating (0)

and resolve conflicting quality ratings, setting it to stub or start depending on its rating in Liftwing.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): C#

Source code available: [1]

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Template talk:WikiProject banner shell#Conflicting quality ratings

Edit period(s): Daily until all are resolved.

Estimated number of pages affected: ~ 35,000

Namespace(s): Talk

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Bot goes through each article in the category, clears the current ratings and applies the Liftwing rating of start or stub as appropriate.

Discussion

Thanks for filing this. I think we discussed running this for all Stub/Start/C classes? So that would include the following categories:

• Category:Start-Class articles conflicting with C-Class project-independent quality rating (0)
• Category:Stub-Class articles conflicting with C-Class project-independent quality rating (0)
• Category:C-Class articles conflicting with Start-Class project-independent quality rating (0)
• Category:Stub-Class articles conflicting with Start-Class project-independent quality rating (0)
• Category:Start-Class articles conflicting with Stub-Class project-independent quality rating (0)
• Category:C-Class articles conflicting with Stub-Class project-independent quality rating (0)

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:06, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Yes, the bot can handle this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 12:33, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

@MSGJ: In testing, I have found that some of the C-class articles would be eligible for a B-class rating. Should they be rated B or C? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:28, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

I think the bot should rate according to its algorithm. Could it produce a log so that we can spot check a sample manually? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:58, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it can. Normally on WikiProject:Military History we double-check all the articles that have been Bot-rated as B-class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:24, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Hmmm. Maybe I cannot. The Bot requires the createpage right to be able to do this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:28, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

All registered users have the right. You likely need to adjust the BotPassword grants to include it. – SD0001 (talk) 15:48, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

All users should have this right, but AussieBot does not and I do not know how to grant it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:11, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Go to Special:BotPasswords, open the botpassword you're using in the bot, tick the "Create, edit, and move pages" grant. Update. – SD0001 (talk) 07:14, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:48, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

If you plan to cover all the mentioned categories, please update the function details to reflect them, and adjust the estimated number of pages affected and the function overview accordingly. – DreamRimmer ■ 06:05, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:12, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Since LiftWing may rate some of them as B or C class, please update the task details to reflect that. The lines that say "rating of start or stub as appropriate" and "stub or start depending on its rating in LiftWing" should be updated to include B and C as well. – DreamRimmer ■ 10:32, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Approved for trial (120 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please process 20 pages from each category. – DreamRimmer ■ 10:37, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done The report can be found here Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:34, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Looks great to me. I spot-checked about 15-20 articles and could not disagree with any of the assessments given — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:14, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7 the bot seems to be continuing with its edits today. Has an additional trial been authorised? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:58, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Oops. My apologies. After trial I have to move the bots from my server to the Toolforge, and I activated AussieBot 2 instead of AussieBot 1. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:59, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer: please review when you have time, thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:29, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

 Approved. Please limit the bot to only the WikiProject banner shell and the WikiProject templates so that it does not make cosmetic changes outside those templates as it did here. – DreamRimmer ■ 14:58, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

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