Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EBot IV

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 Speedily Approved.

EBot IV

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: — E ^talk

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl, using perlwikipedia

Function Summary: Clone of the always-down StatusBot #1 and recently down StatusBot #2.

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

Edit rate requested: 6 edits PER minute

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

Function Details: This bot updates user subpages, such as User:StatusBot/Status/TheFearow, to either say "online" or "offline". These pages can then be transcluded into other templates etc for user status updaters, to see who is online. These can be useful if you need to contact an online admin. The status is determined by checking for the users last edit, and seeing if the timestamp is over 15 minutes ago. If it is, it marks offline, otherwise, it marks online. Simple as that :)

Discussion

Well, let's see how long this one stays up ;) ... Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 07:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Looks like it is working well, and this code has been well-tested prior to this. This code has also been through a couple of previous BRFAs without issue. Speedily Approved. -- Cobi^(t|c|b) 08:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. — E ^talk 08:20, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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