PendingChangesBot

PendingChangesBot is a Pywikibot script which tries to automatically review changes using Flagged Revisions in Wikipedia using predefined rules and ORES.

• Homepage: https://github.com/zache-fi/PendingChangesBot
• Wikiproject: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekti:ORES

Rules for approval

Approve article edits if :

• ... edit was made by autopatrolled or autoreviewed user
• ... edit was interwikichange
• ... edit was made by bot
• ... edit was made by former bot
• ... edit was reverted
• ... edit was revert to reviewed version
• ... edit was patrolled
• ... edit has high ORES goodfaith scores

Missing rules

• ... no content from the edit is in the latest version

Prerequisite

Install pywikibot:

$ git clone --recursive https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core.git pywikibot-core
$ cd pywikibot-core
$ python generate_user_files.py

Running the script:

$ cd ..
$ git clone https://github.com/zache-fi/PendingChangesBot.git
$ python pywikibot-core/pwb.py PendingChangesBot/import_candidates.py -lang:fi -family:wikipedia -pendingchanges -simulate

Parameters

-pendingchanges Work on all NS0 articles where changes are pending

-unreviewedpages Work on all NS0 articles which have never been reviewed using Flagged revision

-noformerbots Do not autoreview former bots

-noores Do not use scores from ORES for approval

-simulate Do not login or do actual reviews

-daylimit:N Do not review page if version to be reviewed is older than N days

-ores_goodfaith_true_min:n Minimum value needed for ORES goodfaith true value

-ores_goodfaith_true_max:n Maximum value needed for ORES goodfaith true value

-ores_goodfaith_false_min:n Minimum value needed for ORES goodfaith false value

-ores_goodfaith_false_max:n Maximum value needed for ORES goodfaith false value

Examples

Review unreviewed articles without flooding the pending changes queue

$ python pywikibot-core/pwb.py PendingChangesBot/pendingchanges.py -lang:fi -family:wikipedia -unreviewedpages -daylimit:30

Change ORES review parameters

$ python pywikibot-core/pwb.py PendingChangesBot/pendingchanges.py -lang:fi -family:wikipedia -unreviewedpages -ores_goodfaith_true_min:0.9 -ores_goodfaith_false_max:0.1

Review a single page

$ python pywikibot-core/pwb.py PendingChangesBot/pendingchanges.py -lang:fi -family:wikipedia -page:New_York

Tool labs support

Script will fetch data from Tool Labs in cases where there is no good way to get that data using mediawiki API.

• formerbots – historical bot users who doesn't have bot flag anymore http://tools.wmflabs.org/fiwiki-tools/pendingchanges/?lang=uk&action=formerbots&family=wikipedia

• reverted – test if revision was reverted http://tools.wmflabs.org/fiwiki-tools/pendingchanges/?lang=uk&action=reverted&family=wikipedia&rev_id=15556107

• revert – test if revision was revert to reviewed version http://tools.wmflabs.org/fiwiki-tools/pendingchanges/?lang=uk&action=revert&family=wikipedia&rev_id=14304076