Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DeltaQuadBot 5

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DeltaQuadBot 5

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Operator: DeltaQuad (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 19:24, Sunday March 27, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Not Public.

Function overview: Report names just as the UAA Module for SoxBot did.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Every 5 or 10 minutes.

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N

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

Function details: Checks usernames on API, if they match the criteria, report them.

Discussion

• {{BAG assistance needed}} Flagging this right away as the trial needs to start ASAP to get this thing starting to report some names as this was requested a while ago. -- DQ (t) (e) 19:24, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
• Please note the following different from SoxBot:

• The Wait until edits is not yet programmed in, instead a message is outputed
• All entries that do not directly match the Blacklist are subject to the similar charecters search
• All entries are read as regex, but in a safe way (as in could be anything around it)
• {{note}} will be fixed on next upload to SVN.

Thanks. -- DQ (t) (e) 19:24, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

• Where does it report doubtful names?
• Does the wording of the report include what you have sensibly said here, that regex can be wrong?
• Why wait until they edit?
• Does it do anything else than report?Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:27, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Well as SoxBot had it:

1. Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention/Bot
2. The regex is only a way to try and check, quite a few entries were already regex flaged, but the operation should still be the same as if regex wasn't run (please also understand I am bridging between PHP and Python here). It's like walking your dog around the block one way or the other way.
3. Why wait until they edit, because that is how admins have asked for it. And also it just makes sense to see if a username is editing promotionally before you report/block them. (See the username policy for more info).
4. Uhh...in this task? No. As a bot, yes, I have other already approved tasks. Please see User:DeltaQuadBot for more information on what is already happening with the bot.

For more informtaion on the old SoxBot UAA task, please see the userpage, the the BRFA, and the old code. -- DQ (t) (e) 02:48, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Good for a test. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 02:53, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I released the bot this morning to edit unsupervised on TS. Few minor template errors, but other than that it's running as it should/was asked to. DQ.alt (t) (e) 16:06, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

This is lovely. I started a non-IRC version because it kept crashing...edited on linux and now it's gone. Will be rebuilding that for now and compensating for the wait till edit. -- DQ (t) (e) 02:10, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Still in the debugging state at this point. It was blocked for errors today. I will be looking into the exact cause for this. There was extended downtime last week due to toolserver issues. DQ.alt (t) (e) 16:09, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

• Trial complete. I'm done debugging one minor issue and a ready to go block button on the history so it's friendlier for watchlists. And I think I have overstayed my welcome on the trial. I will let it keep editing though. -- DQ (t) (e) 20:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

  I'm currently reviewing this, first thing to note is that the bot should remove blocked users from User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Wait - I doubt they're gonna be editing any time soon ;), so checking for edits from them is a waste of resources. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 15:41, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

 Approved. I have spoken to DeltaQuad about this, just to record on-wiki: The bot will now remove blocked users and will also not in the report if the bot waited for the user to edit. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 20:23, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

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