Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Oreobot

Oreobot

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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

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Operator: - Milk's Favorite Cookie

Automatic or Manually Assisted:

• Manually assissted

Programming Language(s):

• AWB

Function Summary: Will fix obvious spelling errors based on this list

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

Edit rate requested: 5 (at most) edits per minute

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

Function Details: This bot will be used with AWB. Using this list it will manually replace commonly misspelled words, which are done every once in a while on Wikipedia. For example, if somone edits an article and it says "absolutly" it will be manually replaced with "absolutely". That is just an example. The edit summary will say "Changing possible spelling error by ____________. Mistake? Report it. Thanks, Oreobot" (It will have links to the appropriate pages of course.

Discussion

Read Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots BJ^Talk 00:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

He changed it to manually assisted.   jj137 (talk) 23:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:BOT#Requirements β^_command 16:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

This seems to be the same basic request that E has put in above. So long as you're manually approving weach edit, I don't see an issue with doing this. SQL^{Query me!} 20:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Please rephrase your statements for what the 'manually assisted' bot will carry out. I need to also know what modules are you using in AWB. Find/Replace?? Please elaborate and we will decide on a trial from there. Thank you. — E ^talk 07:00, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I rephrased them. I will be using RegexTypoFixer, based on the list I mentioned above. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 19:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Three things: I think the edit rate is a tad too high, users might have something to say about a 'bot' editing spelling errors - just because bots are not usually approved for spell checking and how can it be a 'Continuous' mechanism if it's manually assisted? You aren't on Wikipedia 24/7 are you? — E ^talk 20:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

YFixed - Milk's Favorite Cookie 18:36, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I might suggest, just going ahead and running this task, under a username that does not include the phrase "bot" (per the username policy, IIRC). I've run this task myself several times under my user, back when I used windows. I don't believe that you need BAG approval to do this, so long as you are manually approving each edit (and, that's also the only proper way to do semi-auto spell checking). So, to recap, I would suggest saving OreoBot's username, for perhaps a future AWB bot, that you might want to run, withdrawing this request (or, someone in bag could mark it expired / declined / whatever, I spose), and just going ahead with this under an account of your choosing. SQL^{Query me!} 22:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I wouldn't mind just closing this request. I can always do it manually on my current account. Thanks. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 22:20, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Withdrawn by operator. SQL^{Query me!} 20:53, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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