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Time filed: 12:11, Wednesday, February 12, 2020 (
UTC)
Function overview:
Template {{
R from scientific name}} can take a parameter ('fish', 'insect', etc) to subcategorise redirects from scientific names of organisms to their common names.
The parameter is often not present in cases where it could usefully be supplied.
This bot will add the parameter, where the correct value can be determined from the taxobox of the article that is the target of the redirect.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
I am not aware of any.
Edit period(s):
One-time run to remove the current backlog. I will divide it into tranches using gcmstartsortkeyprefix and gcmendsortkeyprefix generator parameters. It might be re-run periodically in the future.
Estimated number of pages affected: 6000–8000 (25–30% of 25000 category members)
Fetch the HTML for the target page of each redirect, use BeautifulSoup to get taxonomic data from the taxonbox. Because the automatic taxobox system may be involved, examining the output HTML of the relevant taxobox is the cleanest route I can see to the required taxonomic information.
Run the algorithm to determine the parameter value from the taxonomy
Use mwparserfromhell to add the parameter value to the wikitext. There is a slew of redirects to template {{
R from scientific name}}.
Update page
Preliminary examination of a couple of thousand pages indicates many cases where 'fish', or 'insect' needs to be added, a few requiring 'crustacean', 'spider' or 'fungus' and none for 'plant'. (Plant articles are mostly *at* their scientific names.)
Discussion
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's see how this does and go from there.
William Avery, take all the time you need (no rush). --
TheSandDoctorTalk 20:53, 7 March 2020 (UTC)reply
Thank you. I just this evening started looking at implementing this task with pywikibot, as the novelty of node.js is wearing off.
William Avery (
talk) 21:07, 7 March 2020 (UTC)reply
I have edited the BRFA information above to reflect my revised approach.
William Avery (
talk) 20:51, 10 March 2020 (UTC)reply
N.B. During the development process, on 9 March, I logged in under the bot account to create a bot password to use with pywikibot. I then inadvertently moved a page and did a couple of edits whilst logged in under the bot account. I'm aware I shouldn't make such edits using a flagged account.
William Avery (
talk) 07:50, 15 April 2020 (UTC)reply
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