Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JoelHelperBot

{{Newbot|JoelHelperBot|}}

Operator: {{botop|Spellcheck}}

Time filed: 07:49, Friday, November 4, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: [https://github.com/cincodenada/JoelHelperBot Github] (Editing functionality untested, pending trial approval)

Function overview: Assists in maintaining and creating pages in the United States presidential election imagemaps category, which are currently misaligned and only partially complete, and are easily generate-able.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One-time initial run, followed by manually-initiated runs as updates are needed or new pages are created

Estimated number of pages affected: 58 for the current set, plus one additional one every 4 years. Plus, any pages the templates are included in.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details: Generates imagemaps programmatically, based on a curated set of state outlines, combined as needed for each year, and edits the imagemap templates to ensure consistency and accuracy.

It uses pywikibot for the edit functionality, which I believe I have configured correctly via pwb.py to log in via OAuth. I've set up a sub-account under my account for the bot, and created an OAuth Consumer for it to use.

The bot is generically named because I foresee using it for other similar tasks (editing large categories of pages that are generate-able), but this request is just for the initial functionality of the election imagemaps.

As a demonstration, I've copy/pasted the output from the bot to make a manual edit on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AUnited_States_presidential_election%2C_2012_imagemap&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=747777234&oldid=711834259 2012 imagemap]. This is the nature of the edits the bot would be making, plus a comment at the top noting that the content was generated. In order to see the improvement you'll have to open the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:United_States_presidential_election,_2012_imagemap&oldid=711834259 old page] alongside the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:United_States_presidential_election,_2012_imagemap&oldid=747777234 new page] and hover over the states - notice how the linked areas in the new version are much better aligned (compare, for instance, Florida). There are further improvements to be made - the callout labels are a mess, and DC isn't even included at all - put I plan to do an initial round of edits to fix the alignments, then get to work on the callout labels. Once that's done, I plan on generating maps for all the elections, starting with the modern-map ones not represented yet that are ready to be generated (1848-1872), followed by the earlier ones that require more manual editing. The Human Spellchecker (talk) 09:30, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

:{{BotTrial|edits=10}} Please make some test edits, and post your results here. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:22, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

::Thanks, I did a few [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/JoelHelperBot test edits] that all went as planned - I tested having the bot update an existing page, update several existing pages, and create a new imagemap for an existing image. I also had it run an update on 2000-2016 after doing the tests, and as expected, it found that the pages looked like it wanted them to and left well enough alone. I didn't yet test fixing the callout labels, because I haven't yet created those areas, and it's the same procedure as updating alignment, just with a different end-result for the wikitext. The Human Spellchecker (talk) 07:07, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

:::Do not include "credits" in the wikitext (e.g. ) the edit summary in the page history serves this purpose. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:37, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

:::: Okay, thanks, I've removed that bit from the code, so the next edits will trim that out. I realized too the "(semi-automated by JoelHelperBot)" in the edit text may be duplicative, perhaps just "(semi-automated)", or leave it off entirely? The Human Spellchecker (talk) 19:51, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

::::: I'd just leave it out, the edit summary should tell the story. One thing you could do is like what I do with User:Fluxbot - describe the functions on the userpage, and then just link to the task in the edit summary (e.g. Special:Diff/747894924). This becomes more and more useful as you get multiple tasks to do. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:45, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

:::::: Other example: meta:User:Fluxbot. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:47, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

:{{BotExtendedTrial|edits=10}} Please make a final trial run with your updated settings. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:21, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

:{{t1|OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D}} Do you still want to proceed with this? — xaosflux ^Talk 15:25, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

{{BotExpired}} No response from operator. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:34, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

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