Operator: Connel MacKenzie - wikt
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Batch run initiated monthly (ish)
Programming Language(s): Python, pywikipediabot's replace.py
Function Summary: After running my script on en.wiktionary (I'm a sysop there) to Special:Import all the Category:Copy to Wiktionary (CAT:MtW) pages into en.wiktionary.org's Transwiki: namespace, and after the Transwiki log is updated indicating the moves, this bot will remove the ((subst:Move to Wiktionary)) stuff from the transwiki'ed articles here.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): I plan to run it once a month. If it works out to once a week, I'm sure Wikipedia will be happier, while Wiktionary would be sadder.
Edit rate requested: Couple hundred edits per run. (I'd prefer to run it un-throttled, as it is a minor number of total edits, once a month. In total, a very minor load to this server cluster.)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: See brief summary above.
Will you manually confirm each edit? What will happen to the pages here in that category? Will you request them for speedy deletion or make them soft redirects?Voice-of-All 04:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Applying a transwikification notice is not a back-door route to deletion, nor should it be. Many editors misapply ((dicdef)), for example. They apply it to short articles, erroneously conflating "short" with "dictionary". (Connel will attest that many dictionary articles are far from short. Wiktionary is not paper, either, after all.) I've long held the view that that template should redirect to ((stub)), since that is really what editors mean when they apply it.
Nor is the transwikification system a means for Wikipedians to avoid properly dealing with problem articles. We constructed several categories for articles to be placed in, for review by Wikipedians after transwikification, such as Category:Moved to Wiktionary. If you want some system in addition to simple inspection of the transwikification log to find articles to look at, then that is the system to use.
We went through the discussion of what a transwikification 'bot should do when Dmcdevit and I first started flushing the queue. What Voice of All is asking for on top of the simple act of transwikification is something that we came to the conclusion then must be done by Wikipedians, manually, after the articles have been transwikified.
For further reading on this subject, see also Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/8, Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/9, and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/10, which came later. Uncle G 11:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]