Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2006-03/Request for bot status: PastBot


 * Bot: User: PastBot
 * Owner/operator: User: Connel MacKenzie
 * Purpose: Fill in past and past participle verb forms, exactly as is currently done manually.
 * Generation restrictions:
 * Entry must not already exist.
 * Root form must link the past and past participle forms identically, one or two lines after the ===Verb=== heading.
 * Inflection can be provided by regular text wikification, or any other template that wikifies terms, including Uncle G's inflection templates as well as Ncik's templates (or any others!)
 * All but the last three two characters of the root form must match the plural form to be auto-generatred in this manner.
 * Auto-generated only if there is no other inflected form (e.g. any adjective or noun inflection).
 * ===Verb=== header of root term must be within an ==English== language section.


 * VOTE:


 * For:
 * --Connel MacKenzie T C 05:44, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * -- Tawker 06:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * --SemperBlotto 08:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey 23:38, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * --MGSpiller 01:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * -- Keffy 06:32, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * -- Jonathan Webley 09:00, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * &mdash; Vildricianus 10:00, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Against:


 * Comments:
 * I would prefer that the headers of the created pages use ===Verb form=== rather than simply "Verb". This makes it clearer that mnore information will be found in a main entry. --EncycloPetey 23:38, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * What does this mean? "Auto-generated only if there is no other inflected form (e.g. any adjective or noun inflection)." Are these going to be list-verified as per earlier example of tired? Davilla 03:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)


 * It would appear to mean that the script will check for links to noun inflections (as per the plural bot above) & if there is a plural and a third person both pointing at the same page then this bot will not generate a new page. It's only as good as the existing data in the XML dump which is not perfect but pretty good. (That's how I'd write it anyway.) MGSpiller 18:50, 15 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Still don't get it. What do "-ed" entries have to do with plurals and third-person verbs? If I were to write it I'd verify each to check for adjective senses. Davilla 19:59, 15 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry yes, I'm confusing my bots, there are too many... Granted as adjectives like tired are root forms the bot is likely to miss them. My gut feeling is that these will be the exception rather than the rule and not significantly worse than a human editor missing the same homonym.MGSpiller 01:50, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, by "adjective...inflection" I do mean adjective senses. Although your example of tired makes me realize I need to revisit the parser.  Right now, I only search for wikified terms.  I need to expand the parser to also include terms that are merely bolded.  But for tired itself, since the entry already exists, no 'bot using this method can upload it.  This 'bot method will only work for entries that do not exist.  --Connel MacKenzie T C 04:02, 17 March 2006 (UTC)