User talk:AIDbot

Bot for checking what needs to be updated on Article Improvement Drive.

This bot connects to AID page, retrieves it, checks if every nomination is formated as expected, counts votes, whether header of every nomination states correct number of votes and correct "stays until" date, checks whether the nomination collected enough votes to update "stays until" date and finally checks for nominations that expired and should be removed. It then does what he is capable of doing (things which are obvious) and prints out what needs to be done by hand.

The bot usually takes aprox. 15 seconds to execute. If bot hangs for more than 30 seconds, something's wrong (probably Wikipedia having problems again) -> try running the bot in 5 minutes. If in 5 minutes it stil hangs, try in a hour :-)

This bot is still in developement phase and therefore isn't very user friendly. Messages it provides are pretty short and are not explanatory. But, I myself am user friendly, and I'll be glad to help you using this bot. If you have problems understanding what the bot wanted to say, contact me on my talk page, and I will not only help you, but I will change the message the bot displays into one more explanatory, so that other people don't have hard time understanding what the bot wanted to say.

--Dijxtra 09:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is a automated to all bot operators[edit]

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 18:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Automated message to bot owners[edit]

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 23:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]