Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Joe's Null Bot 10

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Approved.

Joe's Null Bot 10[edit]

Operator: Joe Decker (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 04:35, Tuesday July 29, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PERL

Source code available: Yep, on request

Function overview: Purge WP:PERM 1/hour

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User_talk:Joe_Decker#New_Purge_Bot_task

Edit period(s): 1/hr

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes.

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): y

Function details: Purge WP:PERM 1x/hour to force an updated transclusion of its ten or so child pages.

Underlying detail: Like task 2, but unlike most of the other tasks for this bot, the current delay appears to be a job queue delay rather than a deeper bug., I've seen delays into the small number of hours there. Trivial change to existing code, so relatively low risk, and I'm more than happy to add it.

Discussion[edit]

Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — Please post any issues or results here after the trial. xaosflux ^Talk 11:52, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I requested this task, so will want another BAG member to review the trial for final approval. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:52, 29 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just started, will report back in 7 days. --j⚛e decker ^talk 18:41, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete.

As expected, I heard quite a bit of silence. A few tests with the code in manual mode showed that it did the right thing. A few spot checks after it's hourly run seemed to confirm that. Other than that, no problems were observed or reported. --j⚛e decker ^talk 23:29, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for update, pinging for someone else in BAG to comment or approve:

A user has requested the attention of a member of the Bot Approvals Group. Once assistance has been rendered, please deactivate this tag by replacing it with {{t|BAG assistance needed}}. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:03, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging recently active BAG'ers @Magioladitis:, @MBisanz:. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:01, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

xaosflux any comments of the bot trial? Do you think it was OK? I'll be back home in 2 days. If everything is OK I can approve the task. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:58, 10 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All looked fine from what I saw, this is a super-simple task (hit purge once an hour for 1 page) and it appears to be helping. If it's still running as trial, I'm fine to let it continue until approval completes. Thanks! — xaosflux ^Talk 03:44, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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