Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Automation

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India article statistics

This list is generated automatically every night around 3 AM UTC here.

India articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	6	34	48			90
FL	6	10	33	136			185
A			2	2			4
GA	24	55	170	460		1	710
B	115	411	843	1,617		75	3,061
C	93	799	2,243	9,671		517	13,323
Start	19	1,030	5,176	61,739	1	1,631	69,596
Stub	1	308	2,458	95,608	1	1,489	99,865
List	21	198	618	4,996	27	151	6,011
Category			7	47	40,654		40,708
Disambig		1		42	730		773
File			12	7	1,453		1,472
Portal					89		89
Project					209		209
Redirect	2	107	403	5,875	3,469		9,856
Template		1	2	4	6,256		6,263
NA					2		2
Draft				35	838		873
Assessed	283	2,926	12,001	180,287	53,729	3,864	253,090
Unassessed		2	2	49	2	3,045	3,100
Total	283	2,928	12,003	180,336	53,731	6,909	256,190
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,011,081			Ω = 5.42

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The automation department of the India WikiProject uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.

The current scope of the India WikiProject is enormous and covers thousands of articles. These articles must be tagged, their infoboxes replaced or deprecated, and so forth. Given the sheer number of articles, it is quite tedious to do these things by hand; therefore, various automated or semi-automated processes must be set up to perform these maintenance tasks.

Depending on the nature of the task, it can be either completely automated and run by a bot, or semi-automated via AWB, requiring a user's decision to whether or not implement the changes. Indeed, in order to minimize false positives, some of the operations should be performed by hand.

Rules of thumb:

• If you don't have a bot, don't take up a task that can be automated and involves a great number of articles - you will lose precious time pressing Ctrl-S in AWB.
• Don't create your own bot if there is no need to - a few bots will probably be more than enough.
• Don't assign yourself a task if you don't have time for it.
• If you can only do a part of a task, once finished, update the number of articles remaining, and move it back to unassigned.
• If the task is semi-automated only, it is because there are numerous false positives, so check every article before saving.
• Don't forget to uncheck "ignore unexisting pages" in AWB's "Set options" tab when dealing with talk pages!
• If you want to help, look at the list of unassigned tasks below, assign it to yourself by adding your name to the appropriate column, and start kickin' :)
• Once completed, put this fact in a visible manner somewhere in the list.

What is a task?

A task is a maintenance operation that can be executed on a precise set of articles. It can be identified by several parameters:

• Its name
• A description of the initial set of articles on which the operation must be performed and of the unitary operation itself, along with conditional parameters. The initial set can be:
  • A category
  • A list of pages transcluding a template
• Whether or not it can be automated (see above)
• The number of articles in the initial set

Note: "non-recurrent" tasks should actually be reperformed once every few months, to take into account new articles created on the subject. However, moving a finished non-recurrent task back to unassigned will be done at discretion of the project coordinators.

General notes

When a task involves tagging articles from a stub tag and automatically rating them as "Stub-Class", the auto parameter in {{WP India}} must be set:

{{WP India
|class=Stub
|auto=yes
...
}}

Bots and operators

Recurrent

Non-recurrent (unassigned)

Non-recurrent (assigned and pending)

Non-recurrent (completed)

Please add a brief description of the proposed task below; once it has been determined that it can be safely carried out, and that there are no objections to doing so, it will be moved into the tables above.

All project members are invited to comment on these requests—particularly if they notice any problems with the proposal!

1. Add {{WP India|class=Image|maps=yes}} to maps in commons:Category:WikiProject India Maps
2. Add locator maps from commons:Category:WikiProject India Maps to articles of regions in List of regions in India. I have mad a map for almost every region with the name: India <region name> locator map.svg -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 12:51, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• AutoWikiBrowser page - you can download AutoWikiBrowser there.
• Kingbotk Plugin for AWB - An AutowikiBrowser plugin for WikiProject templating and Wikipedia assessments. Use generic project plug-in. Full support for {{WP India}} is currently under development.
• Pywikipedia - a set of Python scripts to use as bots.