Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotMultichill 8

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Approved.

BotMultichill 8

Operator: Multichill (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 12:11, Saturday October 29, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic supervised, later automatic unsupervised

Programming language(s): python (pywikipedia)

Source code available: Not so simple script based on pywikipedia, see here

Function overview: Convert lists of National Register of Historic Places listings to a template based format

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#Wiki Loves Monuments 2012

Edit period(s): Conversion happens only once.

Estimated number of pages affected: About 5600 pages

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: The bot will convert lists of National Register of Historic Places listings to a template based format with to a template based format using {{NRHP header}} and {{NRHP row}}. The layout of the page won't be changed for the casual reader, but for the updater live because a lot easier:

Consistent layout is ensured
Updating is easier and it's easier to find incorrect templates
It becomes possible to make detailed progress statistics (example)
It becomes possible to automatically suggest images to be added to the lists. See for example nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Erfgoed/Belgische Erfgoed Inventarisatie/Vlaanderen/Ongebruikte foto's
It becomes possible to plot items on the map: All monuments, just monuments in a certain region, monuments lacking an image (great for photo expeditions). (example 1 and example 2)
It becomes possible to automatically categorize images at Commons (example).
It becomes possible to automatically add coordinates to images at Commons (example).

This system is already in use on several Wikipedia's.

The bot tries to extract the different fields from the current table with a bunch of regular expressions and it will also try to find the reference number of a listing in linked articles. I already did some tests and I'm now working of fixing the last bugs and tweaking things. I'm checking every edit now. When I'm confident that the bot isn't producing strange results I'll probably speed up. multichill (talk) 12:11, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Come back when you have a good sample of the bot's edits. --Chris 06:32, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. did some more tests. See the recent edits or Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:NRHP row. multichill (talk) 21:40, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. MBisanz ^talk 00:48, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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