User:Dpmuk/DpmukBOT

My thoughts on CCI and a bot to do a lot of mundane tasks. Comments to the talk page please

CCI Changes

Some changes to the way CCIs are run / formatted would help a bot and hopefully users as well.

Keep the main CCI page mainly as as, with two differences:

1. For requests have some way of marking them accepted - the bot would then generate the relevant pages and transfer them to open - or rejected - when the bot would archive them.
2. Have a section for "Awaiting closing" - where the bot would move cases that appear to be complete (all articles marked in some way).

For investigation pages, I suggest three sections:

1. Open articles - these have not yet been assessed by anything other than a bot and the bot hasn't found them to be completely clean
2. Clean articles - Articles that have been checked (either by bot or human) and are clean. Collapsed by default.
3. Cleaned articles - Articles that were a problem but have now been clean. Collapsed by default.

Articles would be moved from open / suspect when a {{y}} or {{n}} tag was added.

Bot Tasks

Housekeeping

1. Create new case pages by running contribution survey, then doing it's own checks (see below) and then formatting the results
2. Move pages from Requested to Open to Awaiting Close to Archive based on tags or state of the investigation
3. Move articles to appropriate sections once checked.

Checks - when creating new pages the bot would do some checks itself:

1. Check to see whether a diff is trivially OK by checking that it only consists of:
1. Reference additions (coded)
2. Formatting changes (coded)
3. Very short additions (<15 characters) (coded)
4. Moving text around (coded)
5. Reversions (check a few revisions back to see if any are identical)
2. Check to see whether any of the additions / changes are copyvios

When the bot was finished I'd forsee a sample article line looking like (this is purely an example of what a new diff line may look like - I've not atually tested these diffs yet so ignore what I say the diffs are here):

• Craquelure: (5 edits, 5 major, +4391) (+4391) (+628) (+100) (+172)[1] (+569)

Where struck through links the bot has found OK and underlined it's found a possible problem with a link to the webpage next to it. Would prefer to use different colours but CSS has never been my strong point so not currently sure how to.

There may well have to be a few changes to templates etc to get this all up and running.

For Image investigations it would only do the housekeeping bits.