Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/XLerateBot

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Approved.

XLerateBot

Operator: XLerate (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Function Summary: add New Zealand project banner {{WikiProject New Zealand}} to talk pages of a vetted list of Category:New Zealand articles.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one time run

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details: the update is to add the Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand talk page template to a vetted list of 11k articles under Category:New Zealand. It adds class=stub when the article has a stub tag, and importance (low, mid, high, top) based on a recent article traffic survery for NZ pages. It would skip pages with any existing WikiProject templates, for manual checking (to avoid issues with nested templates etc).

Discussion

Are you using the KingBotK Generic Banner Plugin? This custom module is coded to work with banner shells and the like. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 23:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's a better way, so I'll run it with KingBotK to remove the substantial manual part. XLerate (talk) 06:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

After spending considerable time trying to get the KingBotK Generic Banner Plugin to work, I discover it appears to have a bug (every page is rejected due to bad tag), scheduled to be fixed in the next build. So I proceed with the original method, skip any existing tags, then look to the remainder when KingBotK is working. XLerate (talk) 08:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Looks simple enough. MBisanz ^talk 19:15, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete.

Approved. BJ^Talk 04:59, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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