Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotPuppet

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

BotPuppet

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Operator: Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)}

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised for the first bit, then I'll let it run by itself.

Programming Language(s): Wikipedia:AWB.

Function Summary: Substitute widely-used templates to conserve processing power, such as {{unsigned}}.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily.

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Nay.

Function Details: Basically, I'll use {{unsigned}} as an example. There are approximately 25000 transclusions of this template that are not substituted. Say each of those pages is accessed 5 times a day by unique users; that means {{unsigned}} is being used 125000 times a day, using unnecessary resources.

Discussion

If there's already a bot like this, please don't hate me. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 06:55, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

What's And Sri-Lankan.? =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

That was a joke. I'll remove it, this probably isn't the time to be silly. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 07:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

This is one of the most cloned tasks there is. Do you have a list of all the templates you plan to substitute? BJ^Talk 07:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, if there are lots of people doing this, they're apparently not doing it. As for templates;

• {{bio-cats}}
• {{footnotes}} & {{Footnotestext}}
• {{lived}}
• {{prettytable}}, {{Prettytable-center}}, {{Prettytable95}}, {{Prettytable100}}, {{Prettytable100center}}, {{Prettyinfobox}}, {{PrettytableN}}, {{Prettytablewidth}}, {{Prettytable-center2}}
• {{tmfrom}}, {{tmto}}
• All warning templates
• {{afd top}}, {{afd bottom}}
• {{mfd top}}, {{mfd bottom}}
• {{rfd top}}, {{rfd bottom}}
• {{mfd}}
• {{debate top}}, {{debate bottom}}
• {{Nowrap}}
• {{WP:RM}}, {{Move2}}
• {{afd}}
• {{doctl}}
• {{nld}}
• {{NoMoreLinks}}
• {{nrd}}
• {{nsd}}
• {{orfud}}
• {{or-fu-re}}
• {{prod}}
• {{rfu}}
• {{refu-c}}
• {{copyvio}}
• {{unsigned}}

If I add all of those then I may as well make it a daily bot. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 07:22, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. BJ^Talk 20:20, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Trial went great; contributions are green across the board. The majority were unsigned notices, but there's 25000 of those so it'll be working those for a while. Anyway, I'm happy with the performance (set it to edit once every 6 seconds, is that ok? It's ok for me). Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 03:00, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

 Approved. Good trial, works well, simple. — Coren ^(talk) 03:11, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.