Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Pi bot 21

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Approved --Lymantria (talk) 05:31, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pi bot 21 edit

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Operator: Mike Peel (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: Remove text in brackets from human name labels

Code: Available on BitBucket

Function details: The code runs a query for instance of (P31)=human (Q5) items that have brackets in their labels, which are often imported based on article titles. It then removes the text in brackets. It does this across all language labels (i.e., it assumes that brackets should never be in a label). It was suggested by @Jura1:. Example edits: [1], [2], [3], [4] ('Tim Coleman' in nl has another item with the same description, so that edit failed). Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:30, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. Thanks for doing this. --- Jura 22:59, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I will approve this task in a couple of days, provided that no objections will be raised. Lymantria (talk) 07:49, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Review of edits edit

@Mike Peel: thanks for the heads up on this. I reviewed some of the edits done since the approval. While, I don't have much of an opinion on labels that are not in Latin script, for any edit, it might be worth mentioning the previous label in the edit summary.

Sample: [5]

Current edit summary: Changed label, description and/or aliases in en: Remove text in brackets from en label
Suggested new summary: Changed label, description and/or aliases in en: remove text in brackets from label "Alan McLean (New Zealand cricketer)"

"Changed label, description and/or aliases in en" is the automatic part, so I suppose it can't be changed but gets internationalized.

Also, Master of the Codex Manesse (Q59285703) shouldn't have been done. I don't think it much of an issue, especially that it lacked notname (Q1747829) that would be sufficient to identify/skip it. --- Jura 08:04, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jura1: I prefer not to quote the labels in the edit summary, but can do if needed. You see the new label anyway when you are browsing in that language. I don't understand why Master of the Codex Manesse (Q59285703) is an exception? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:07, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Peel: With the correct P31, Master of the Codex Manesse (Q59285703) would have been part of [6] who are mostly named for whatever work of theirs is known. --- Jura 08:25, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Given that the bot does edits in multiple languages, people who review wont see all labels. If you prefer, you could add the new label in the summary (this would be closer to what Wikibase does automatically). This could be accompanied by some note, e.g.

Suggested new summary: Changed label, description and/or aliases in en: label "Alan McLean" after removing text in brackets

Personally, I prefer the earlier suggestion. --- Jura 08:25, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally, if only the label is edited, the automated part would state that, but maybe this is not something the bot operator can modify. Avoids having to repeat it afterwards. Sample:

Suggested new summary: Changed English label: Alan McLean // task: remove text in brackets

Not sure about the ideal way to separate the label from the explanation (I used "//" here). I considered using square brackets ("[]"), but, at least for this task, it could be confusing.

If the default summary can't be changed, it would be:

Suggested new summary: Changed label, description and/or aliases in en: label "Alan McLean" // task: remove text in brackets

The same could be helpful for other tasks. @Mike Peel: --- Jura 09:51, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jura1: I went with the first option in the end, code changed. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:51, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested new summary: Changed label, description and/or aliases in en: Alan McLean, #task 21: remove part of label in brackets

@Mike Peel: Thanks, sounds good. After doing some experiments with edit summaries and looking at the ones Magnus' tools add (", #"), the above would probably be closest to his. --- Jura 17:15, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]