Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RonaldBot
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Approved.
Operator: RonaldB-nl, admin on a.o. nl:w: (home wiki)
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): VB6 + SQLserver running on own server
Function Summary: Reports any edit by an open proxy known in user's database. See here for further background info.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): 7/24
Edit rate requested: depends on occurence of open proxy edits, experience so far: < 100 per day, see [1] as an example of a typical day.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N - Note: w/o bot flag, it might be easier for vandalism fighters to note the occurence of a suspicious edit in e.g. the rc list.
Function Details: The bot only updates Wikipedia:Open proxy detection. This procedure is in operation on nl: since january 2007, added a few major languages on 3 July and was invited by some smaller languages to help them out as well. See iw links.
This process was interrupted by this block.
Discussion[edit]
It all looks good, it's been running without problems. 
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 22:35, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- Please stop your bot from editing. It has not yet been approved. It has performed 3799 edits as at 10:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC). Please wait for approval before editing again. Thank you, — E talkbots 10:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
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