Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SAMI.Bot

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Denied.

SAMI.Bot[edit]

Operator: S.M.Samee (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 20:12, Sunday February 3, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia

Function overview: mainly interwikis from Urdu wikipedia

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): one time run

Estimated number of pages affected:

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No)Yes

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

Function details:

Discussion[edit]

A question that always comes up. Which namespaces will it be doing?—cyberpower ^Chat_Online 21:39, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mostly main spaces_SMS ^{Let's talk} 10:33, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This bot appears to have edited since this BRFA was filed. Bots may not edit outside their own or their operator's userspace unless approved or approved for trial. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:54, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please DO NOT edit user pages or user talk pages. MBisanz ^talk 14:20, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Done --_SMS^{Let's talk} 19:23, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just got reminded of the pending Wikidata. We are trying to get interwiki bots shut down are we not?—cyberpower ^Chat_Offline 19:50, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm told Wikidata is not 100% complete, so the interwiki editing module will need to be re-coded to sense where it has entries and not act on those. MBisanz ^talk 03:10, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

But rather than adding those links to EN would it not make more sense to add them to Wikidata? ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 14:24, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That would make more sense. I just don't have a good grasp on how easy it is to add things to Wikidata or how likely they are to complete the en.wiki articles in a reasonable period of time. MBisanz ^talk 00:21, 13 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

FYI... With pyrev:11073, any pywikipedia bot should no longer function on English Wikipedia. Bgwhite (talk) 18:32, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Denied. Bots should no longer need to add interwiki links onto en.wikipedia but on wikidata instead. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 19:18, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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