User:MilHistBot
 | This user account is a bot operated by Hawkeye7 (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
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| Author | Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) |
| Approved? | Yes |
| Flagged? | Yes |
| Task(s) | Pass or fail Military History articles following an A class review; or keep of demote them after a reassessment |
| Edit rate | Hourly |
| Edit period(s) | Periodically |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
| Programming language(s) | Perl |
| Exclusion compliant? | No |
| Source code published? | published |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | Yes |
Contents
A-class review[edit]
The Bot promotes or fails an A-Class review following the manual procedure. This procedure is straightforward, but has many steps, and has proved very error-prone for humans. The bot is triggered by a MilHist coordinator changing the A-class=current to A-class=pass or A-class=fail on the article's talk page. This is similar to the Bots that process GA and FA articles.
Automated procedure[edit]
| A-Class review/reappraisal closure instructions for coordinators | ||||
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| edit | A-Class review | A-Class reappraisal | ||
| Closure takes place after minimum of five and maximum of twenty-eight days | Pass • at least 3 comprehensive supports and • no outstanding criteria-based objections |
Fail • less than 3 comprehensive supports or • outstanding criteria-based objections or • no consensus |
Keep • clear consensus to keep or • no consensus |
Demote • clear consensus to demote |
| {{WPMILHIST}} on article talk page | • Change A-Class=current to A-Class=pass | • Change A-Class=current to A-Class=fail | • Change A-Class=current to A-Class=kept | • Change A-Class=current to A-Class=demoted • Reassess article and record new class |
| The MilHistBot will take care of the details. For detailed advice and manual procedure instructions see the full Academy course. | ||||
Manual procedure[edit]
The MilHistBot duplicates the manual procedure for closing A class reviews, which can be found here. If a manual procedure is desired, conflict with the MilHistBot can be avoided by removing the assessment from the nomination page (performing Step 4) first.
Source code[edit]
Approval[edit]
Announcements[edit]
Bot sweeps through the current FACs, FARs, FLCs, GANs, GARs, DYKs and PRs selecting the MilHist ones, format them up and updates the Template:WPMILHIST Announcements page.
Source code[edit]
Approval[edit]
Membership[edit]
The Bot checks the list of active members of WikiProject Military History (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/Active) and moves members who have been inactive for more than 365 days to the inactive members list (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/Inactive). (This is similar to the function performed by the Rick Bot for the list of administrators.)
Source code[edit]
Approval[edit]
Awards[edit]
Processes MilHist award nominations
- Posts the award template on the user's talk page (in this test case, the Bot's own page) [1] (the typo has been corrected)
- Changes the nomination page (ie Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Awards) to indicate that the award was awarded. [2]
- Adds the award to the historical list (eg. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Awards/ACM) [3]
- Adds the award to next month's Bugle (eg. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/March 2018/Project news) [4]
