Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FlagBot 2
- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard. The result of the discussion was
Speedily Approved.
New to bots on Wikipedia? Read these primers!
- Approval process – How this discussion works
- Overview/Policy – What bots are/What they can (or can't) do
- Dictionary – Explains bot-related jargon
Operator: FlagSteward (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 21:56, Tuesday, November 29, 2022 (UTC)
Function overview: Requesting a renewal of the approval given to User:FlagBot back in 2008, which lapsed in 2015 during an extended time away from Wikipedia.
It's an article assessment bot.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Lot of manual supervision of the choice of assessment, then a curated list is sent to AWB to process automatically
Programming language(s): PHP grabs various parameters via the API (which is a change, the 2008 was scraped off HTML but the output is the same) and dumps them into a spreadsheet, which does a few calculations and then I review manually, before taking lists off the spreadsheet to feed AWB.
Source code available: AWB
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Previously approved at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/FlagBot, but lapsed whilst I was away
Edit period(s): One-time run, as and when I have time
Estimated number of pages affected: 200-20,000 pages per project, but the amount of manual intervention means I won't be tackling more than one of the big Wikiprojects per week
Namespace(s): Talk pages of the namespaces assessed by a Wikiproject
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: As per previous approval, with some inconsequential changes under the hood, like extracting data via the API rather than scraping. Something new I'm extracting is the mw:ORES ratings, but at present I'm just using ORES to help guide my "manual" oversight, it's not incorporated into any of the "automatic" assessment. I agree with ORES maybe 80% of the time so it is useful but not something to follow blindly.
User:FlagBot's AWB approval has lapsed so would need reviving but my personal AWB approval has been revived after my Wikibreak. If you want examples, I've done a few thousand pseudo-FlagBot edits with AWB on my personal account in the last few weeks, my AWB settings seem to be working robustly with the current state of Wikiproject banners.
Discussion[edit]
Speedily Approved. Since this is the same task, which was only stopped due to inactivity, I see no issue with restarting it. If there are issues, WP:BOTN is the place to post (after, of course, you discuss with the botop). Primefac (talk) 18:04, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard.