Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FlammableBot 3
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Operator: FlammablePizza (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 00:02, Thursday, August 6, 2026 (UTC)
Function overview: Takes all articles in Category:United States National Film Registry films and attempts to diffuse them into sub-categories such as Category:United States National Film Registry films inducted in 1989 based on induction year.
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python (PyWikiBot)
Source code available: https://gitlab.com/flammablepizza/FlammableBot/-/blob/main/task3.py
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Sorting Films, WP:DIFFUSE
Edit period(s): One time run
Estimated number of pages affected: 707
Namespace(s): Mainspace/Articles
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes (through default PyWikiBot settings)
Function details: This bot uses a csv file found here, which is based off this table from loc.gov. The bot checks the title of each page in Category:United States National Film Registry films and attempts to check it against the csv file. If found, it replaces instances of Category:United States National Film Registry films in the article with Category:United States National Film Registry films inducted in XXXX, where XXXX is the induction year listed in the csv file. The bot only saves its changes there is a diff of exactly 17 bytes added. If any step fails, it saves the article title to a file to be manually checked later (which is a small number of articles).
I used the latest version of the script to generate a full list of diffs visible here (only difference between this and a regular run is skipping saving the changes). Scrolling through them, I do not see any out-of-place changes. I am also aware that most of the needed sub-categories do not exist yet; I will create them before the bot runs.
Discussion
[edit source]This BRFA and bot were created on behalf of the request at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Sorting Films. As the category originally contained over 900 articles before subcategorization (150 articles have already been subcategorized), this seemed to be a suitable bot request and candidate for diffusion. FlammablePizza (talk) 00:02, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – DreamRimmer ■ 17:05, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Trial complete. 50 Diffs. Reviewed all edits and they look correct (limited the run to three categories to avoid creating 30 categories with a few pages each). Did not have to manually intervene during the run. Mostly filled Category:United States National Film Registry films inducted in 1995, Category:United States National Film Registry films inducted in 1996, and a few pages in Category:United States National Film Registry films inducted in 1997 (each category is missing 1-2 pages that require manual review). FlammablePizza (talk) 17:28, 7 August 2026 (UTC)