Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Top25ReportBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard. The result of the discussion was  Approved.

Top25ReportBot

New to bots on Wikipedia? Read these primers!

• Approval process – How this discussion works
• Overview/Policy – What bots are/What they can (or can't) do
• Dictionary – Explains bot-related jargon

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: ElijahPepe (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 03:22, Sunday, September 4, 2022 (UTC)

Function overview: Automation of the Top 25 Report

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: GitHub

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Automating the Top 25 Report

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: Indeterminate (see Function details)

Namespace(s): Wikipedia/Talk

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Function details: This bot takes the current date and determines the Sunday and Saturday of the week from the the date. Then, it determines an appropriate title for the Top 25 Report page for the week. It then analyzes the most visited pages for each day, excluding bogus entries, and recreates the list into a weekly list. The bot then creates the Top 25 Report page for the week using the top 25 most visited pages of the week and creates a new entry in its talk page with the top 50 most visited pages for each week.

Discussion

Approved for trial (28 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Primefac (talk) 08:26, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Trial complete. The bot created Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 4 to 10, 2022, Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 18 to 24, 2022, and Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 25 to October 1, 2022 in the trial period. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 00:25, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Everything seems to have gone according to plan. Anything that needs tweaking doesn't need BAG supervision at this point, so  Approved.. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 03:58, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard.