Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ButlerBlogBot 2

ButlerBlogBot 2

Operator: Butlerblog (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 18:09, Friday, October 6, 2023 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Function overview: Monitors television project-specific maintenance categories for proper date formatting in project-specific templates {{Infobox television}}, {{Episode list}}, and {{Series overview}}.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 20-30 per day

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

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

Function details:
1. Using entries in the date-specific television project maintenance categories, it corrects the date format in {{Infobox television}}, {{Episode list}}, and {{Series overview}} to make sure that the following exist:
1a. Format Infobox television |first_aired={{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} (add df=y when applicable)
1b. Format Infobox television |last_aired={{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} (add df=y when applicable) or "present" (lowercase)
1c. Format Episode list |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} (add df=y when applicable)
1d. Unformat Episode list |AltDate={{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} per reasons given in template documentation, applies MOS date format accordingly (either January 1, 2023 or 1 January 2023, depending on formatted parameter)
1e. Series overview start/end dates should use {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} and {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} respectively.
2. Since it already has the article open, it checks the television infobox to apply other genfixes to clean up additional items, including removal of unknown, deprecated, and unnecessary parameters, as well as parameter values for images that are malformed.
This is selected from a series of regex patterns I have used and refined in AWB manually clearing these maintenance categories and then manually running daily over the past year to keep them cleared. It is limited to regex patterns that are robust enough to provide a zero-intervention rate. I already do this via manual AWB daily; I'm just seeking to approve for automation.