Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted in configuration and then automatic run.
Function Summary: Autoassessment for WikiProject banners based on other already assessed Project banners.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): On request
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function Details:
Assessing articles is an important part of the workload of most, if not all WikiProjects. However, many articles fall under the jurisdiction of two or more projects. As all projects use the same or very similar assessment criteria ( based on WP 1.0 guidelines ) , it seems silly and unwanted rework for the same article to be assessed multiple times by different projects manually. Why can't the project look at the article and tag its banner based on other project banners if it is already assessed ?
The bot wants to do this : It looks at the Talk: page for an article, and looks at the classes it has been given. Then, it adds the highest class to the template for the project that it is working for.
E.g. if a talk page of article has one Project banner with 'Start' class and 'B' class from another Project banner, '|class=B' will be added to the Project banner class to our project banner.
And also "|class=Stub" if the Bot is running over articles in stub categories (using the Kingboyk plugin option) and "|class=Cat" , "|class=Template" if it is category,template respectively etc.
This process saves hours of work (some projects have 9000+ unassessed articles!) for human editors, leaving them free to actually improve the articles in question.
The module code is borrowed from an already approved bot User:Bot0612 ( BFRA ) by Richard0612. I think BetacommandBot also did something similar earlier. and Chris G Bot 2 etc.
What about those using the hard B-class critera, like Talk:Timeline of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. If you just add class=B without the B1=yes|B2=yes| etc etc then it will still be rated at C-class. And wouldn't this upwardly bias hundreds of assessments? Some wikiprojects are very sloppy about their assessments, and I wouldn't trust their judgements to be passed on to every other wikiproject. In fact, the only assessments that I trust enough to relay to all wikiprojects without human oversight are the formal GA and FA reviews - both of which are covered by GimmeBot Plasticup T/C 15:20, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
((BAGAssistanceNeeded)) 05:37, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
((BAGAssistanceNeeded)) 05:26, 7 September 2008 (UTC)