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Operator: Jlwoodwa (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 02:59, Monday, January 13, 2025 (UTC)
Function overview: For species articles (under a binomial name title) in a genus category, adding the specific epithet as a sortkey.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised
Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser
Source code available: Find & Replace in AWB.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): It's common practice to add these sortkeys, but I can't find it discussed anywhere. I've started Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life § Sortkeys for genus categories just in case, but I really don't expect any opposition. More generally, the WP:SORTKEY guideline says that sortkeys can be used to exclude prefixes that are common to all or many of the entries
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Edit period(s): Open-ended (as long as I keep finding genus categories without sortkeys)
Estimated number of pages affected: I expect to edit no more than about a thousand articles each day.
Namespace(s): Mainspace
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes (AWB is exclusion compliant by default)
Function details: In AWB, I generate the list of articles in a genus category and filter out all titles not of the form ^Genus .*. Then I use the Find & Replace option, from [[Category:Genus]] to [[Category:Genus|{{subst:remove first word|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}]]. I am willing to turn off genfixes if this is preferred.
Discussion
[edit ]- How many pages are expected to be edited with this run? – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:15, 29 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- @DreamRimmer: Sorry, I didn't see this until now. When you say "this run", do you mean something like a trial run (in which case I propose Category:Stenoma (373)), or are you asking me to make the edit period less open-ended? jlwoodwa (talk) 03:36, 7 February 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Total number of pages expected to be edited as a result of this task. To quote the comment in the BRFA,
Should be a reasonable guess as to how many distinct pages you'll be editing. For open-ended tasks, estimate pages per some reasonable time period
. Primefac (talk) 19:37, 9 February 2025 (UTC) [reply ]- I'm sorry, I don't understand how this question differs from "estimated number of pages affected", which I answered in the initial BRFA template. Is there a problem with my answer? If so, I'll revise it, but I can't determine the problem from what's been said so far. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:50, 12 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- In the request you say you expect to edit no more than 1000 pages per day. Are you running this for a day? A week? Every day for a year? You have not said how many pages you are expecting to edit with this bot run, which is what we are asking. We are not particularly concerned about the daily edit count. I recognise that you are essentially asking for an open-ended approval, but you should have some idea of what the count stands at as of now. Primefac (talk) 01:07, 12 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Thank you for clarifying. I went through a random 200-category section of Category:Wikipedia categories named after genera and calculated that those 200 categories contained 1187 articles needing a sortkey. Since there are currently 6274 genus categories listed there, that suggests that roughly 37 thousand articles need a sortkey. I'm still in the process of populating that category, but I'm done with invertebrates; according to Genus § Numbers of accepted genera, arthropods alone account for more than half of all genera, so this estimate shouldn't be too far off. jlwoodwa (talk) 02:29, 12 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- In the request you say you expect to edit no more than 1000 pages per day. Are you running this for a day? A week? Every day for a year? You have not said how many pages you are expecting to edit with this bot run, which is what we are asking. We are not particularly concerned about the daily edit count. I recognise that you are essentially asking for an open-ended approval, but you should have some idea of what the count stands at as of now. Primefac (talk) 01:07, 12 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- I'm sorry, I don't understand how this question differs from "estimated number of pages affected", which I answered in the initial BRFA template. Is there a problem with my answer? If so, I'll revise it, but I can't determine the problem from what's been said so far. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:50, 12 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Total number of pages expected to be edited as a result of this task. To quote the comment in the BRFA,
- @DreamRimmer: Sorry, I didn't see this until now. When you say "this run", do you mean something like a trial run (in which case I propose Category:Stenoma (373)), or are you asking me to make the edit period less open-ended? jlwoodwa (talk) 03:36, 7 February 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please include a link to this BRFA in the edit summary. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:27, 26 March 2025 (UTC) [reply ]