Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LivingBot 19
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Approved.
Operator: Jarry1250 (talk · contribs)
Time filed: 15:57, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): PHP (Peachy)
Source code available: Haven't written it yet, will be (from my Toolserver SVN).
Function overview: Perform simple tasks relating to publishing The Signpost
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): N/A. I am currently responsible for this process, and no-one objected when I raised it recently. Any successor could choose to use the script (or not). Merely replacing manual edits either way (no innovation).
Edit period(s):Once a week.
Estimated number of pages affected: Half a dozen a week
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: I am current interim editor-in-chief of The Signpost. At the moment, every week, the editor-in-chief must perform a long series of edits (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Publishing) in order to publish. All of these are entirely robotic in nature (updated dates, etc.) and therefore are best done by bot.
Discussion
[edit]Sounds pretty simple to me. Which exact steps do you need the bot to do? I notice one step, for instance is to Semi-Protect a page. SQLQuery me! 20:07, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh, sorry, yes. This approval relates to all the tasks that involve editing English Wikipedia, except a number which are de facto obsolete (including the semi-protection step you mention). Hence LivingBot would not need +sysop. (Incidentally, I should mention that the script will have a master password, handed from editor-in-chief predecessor to successor, since other parts of it -- not included in this approval -- related to external sites, as mentioned in the instructions linked above.) - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 20:37, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- This is pretty uncontroversial. Let's see how it does for 2 weeks.
Approved for trial (14 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. SQLQuery me! 05:48, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- If the bot has other tasks that don't require sysop flag, you should probably make a separate account for the ones that do (i.e. this one). — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 07:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- No, I think you misread: this task does not require +sysop. Oh, and the first run completed last night, only one small error. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 17:03, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Woops! Misread indeed. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 17:45, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Second run last night, no errors with the actions of the bot viz this BRFA.
Trial complete.. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 18:52, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks like the trial went off without a hitch.
Approved. SQLQuery me! 23:03, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks like the trial went off without a hitch.
- Second run last night, no errors with the actions of the bot viz this BRFA.
- Woops! Misread indeed. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 17:45, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- No, I think you misread: this task does not require +sysop. Oh, and the first run completed last night, only one small error. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 17:03, 2 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- This is pretty uncontroversial. Let's see how it does for 2 weeks.
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