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| Author | Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) |
| Approved? | Yes |
| Flagged? | Yes |
| Task(s) | Pass or fail Military History articles following an A class review; or keep of demote them after a reassessment |
| Edit rate | Hourly |
| Edit period(s) | Periodically |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
| Programming language(s) | Perl |
| Exclusion compliant? | No |
| Source code published? | published |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | Yes |
The Bot promotes or fails an A-Class review following the manual procedure. This procedure is straightforward, but has many steps, and has proved very error-prone for humans. The bot is triggered by a MilHist coordinator changing the A-class=current to A-class=pass or A-class=fail on the article's talk page. This is similar to the Bots that process GA and FA articles.
| A-Class review/reappraisal closure instructions for coordinators | ||||
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| edit | A-Class review | A-Class reappraisal | ||
| Closure takes place after minimum of five and maximum of twenty-eight days | Pass • at least 3 comprehensive supports and • no outstanding criteria-based objections |
Fail • less than 3 comprehensive supports or • outstanding criteria-based objections or • no consensus |
Keep • clear consensus to keep or • no consensus |
Demote • clear consensus to demote |
| {{WPMILHIST}} on article talk page | • Change A-Class=currenttoA-Class=pass | • Change A-Class=currenttoA-Class=fail | • Change A-Class=currenttoA-Class=kept | • Change A-Class=currenttoA-Class=demoted • Reassess article and record new class |
| The MilHistBot will take care of the details. For detailed advice and manual procedure instructions see the full Academy course. | ||||
The MilHistBot duplicates the manual procedure for closing A class reviews, which can be found here. If a manual procedure is desired, conflict with the MilHistBot can be avoided by removing the assessment from the nomination page (performing Step 4) first.
Bot sweeps through the current FACs, FARs, FLCs, GANs, GARs, DYKs and PRs selecting the MilHist ones, format them up and updates the Template:WPMILHIST Announcements page.
The Bot checks the list of active members of WikiProject Military History (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/Active) and moves members who have been inactive for more than 365 days to the inactive members list (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/Inactive). (This is similar to the function performed by the Rick Bot for the list of administrators.)
Processes MilHist award nominations
{{subst:MILHIST Quarterly Reviewing Table}}. Save the thread, reopen it and change the months and year in the subject line and table, add a comment under the table, sign and save the thread again. Then tally the qualifying reviews:
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/201X]] (inserting the correct year) and click on the links to check all the A-Class articles that were promoted, failed, kept or demoted in the relevant quarter. Tally the number of articles reviewed by each editor. One suggested method is to use a simple pen-and-paper tally of usernames as you scroll through the relevant archive; another is to save the relevant reviews into a word processor and delete all content except the usernames of the reviewers, then tally from there. Regardless of which method is chosen, it can be time consuming so you may need to do it over several sessions. Once done, add each editor who completed an A-Class review to the User column of the Quarterly Reviewing Table, and add one point to the ACR column for each article that editor reviewed.Tallies the reviews performed by editors and posts a report to the MilHist coordinators' page, with recommendations for awards.
In November 2019, the Bot began automatically assessing articles with incomplete MILHIST assessments.