Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 16

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Approved.

Theo's Little Bot 16[edit]

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

Time filed: 01:00, Tuesday May 28, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python + mwclient

Source code available: Still in progress

Function overview: Maintains {{cite wdl}} by automatically creating subpages of the template with citation contents.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:GLAM/World_Digital_Library#Citation_template should explain everything

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: Unknown...user-triggered, see below

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No need

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

Function details: The bot's processes are explained at {{cite wdl}}—basically, it waits for a user to add {{cite wdl|##}} to an article, and then creates Template:Cite wdl/## with the citation template for that given ID at the World Digital Library. Examples are available at the template's page, and addition of more parameters is ongoing.

Discussion[edit]

Approved for trial (25 edits or 5 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete., This trial must have at least 25 edits and last for at least 5 days. If you hit 50 edits please stop :) ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 10:31, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Seems there might be plenty of ways to go wrong here, but it is also the sort of task tailor-made for a bot to ease a tedious aspect of human editing. Please check results of trial carefully. Thanks for posting to community discussion on issue. -68.107.136.227 (talk) 22:40, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On hold: All source code for this task was stored solely on the machine that died (*headdesk* *headdesk* BACKUP *headesk* *headdesk*). Trying to recover data; if I'm unable to, I'll have to recode from scratch. Theopolisme (talk) 16:04, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Trial in progress Theopolisme (talk) 02:49, 6 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Trial complete. Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Cite wdl Theopolisme (talk) 01:07, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 18:45, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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