Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ChrisSalij Bot

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Approved.

ChrisSalij Bot[edit]

Operator: ChrisSalij (talk · contribs)

Supervised Does not make changes

Programming language(s): Ruby

Source code available: Not Available yet

Function overview: This bot will be used in order to gather data for a summer research internship. (Full details in Function Details)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One Time Run

Estimated number of pages affected: No pages will be changed

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details: This bot is a data gathering bot. It's task will be simple, to get the last 5000 revisions of a small number of articles (10-100). This information is then stored locally so it can be processed. It is a one-time task (May be repeated twice for testing). It will make no edits or changes to wikipedia.

Discussion[edit]

Do you mind if we block the bot so it can't edit but can still gather data? Also, can we deflag automatically in six months? MBisanz ^talk 02:59, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds fine to me. I defiantly won't be editing pages as it's not part of this project, so it wouldn't make sense to let it edit. ChrisSalij (talk) 07:34, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't foresee needing the bot in 6 months so automatically deflagging it is okay. If I am still using it at that time can I appeal to reinstate it? ChrisSalij (talk) 07:34, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. FinalRapture - † ☪ 12:56, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well thats fine by me then :)ChrisSalij (talk) 13:18, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedily Approved. Per above. MBisanz ^talk 03:48, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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