Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AP.BOT
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This is a simple bot to clean up the huge userbox backlog Here. It will use AutoWikiBrowser and will only run when I give it the instructions.
For example it will replace {{User diy}} with {{User:Holek/Userboxes/Do It Yourself}}
It pretty much does the same job that Botdotcom bot does.
It is operated only by me, Andeh.
I could do this task on my current account but feel it would be better opening a separate account to do it.
When the backlog is cleaned up, I will request an administrator to block the account indefinitely. If I decide to give it another function, I'll request it here first before requesting the account to be unblocked.--Andeh 11:03, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, give us a few diffs and we'll approve it from there -- Tawker 05:24, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Could you add the account to the AWB allowed list? Then I'll do a few to show you I know what I'm doing.--Andeh 15:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Done -- Tawker 15:57, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Could you add the account to the AWB allowed list? Then I'll do a few to show you I know what I'm doing.--Andeh 15:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- 249 edits to user space;
talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log • count--Andeh 15:06, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Bot approved for continuous operations, that backlog is getting small now though, this should be able to be run without a flag; use an AWB delay of 13-20 seconds. — xaosflux Talk 15:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Request to substitute vandal warning templates, such as {{test}} with {{subst:test}} and {{test2}} with {{subst:test2}}. And will be made to only edit in User talk space. And possibly in the future, other templates mentioned here.
My userbox replacing has gone near-perfect and the bot has only made 1 erroneous edit[1] which I fixed immediately [2] and made the adjustments for the bot to continue working correctly.--Andeh 08:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Indeed, substing these is a good idea, but how does the bot get the list of pages that need substing? Does it check categories for the tags? How does it tell subst ones from non-subst ones?Voice-of-All 15:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- It will be using the "What transcludes here" function, I'll also filter it to only the user_talk space.--Andeh 15:53, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Trial run approved, there are are a few other bots running these, but most don't run on any schedule. Report in in a week with some results. — xaosflux Talk 03:22, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- It will be using the "What transcludes here" function, I'll also filter it to only the user_talk space.--Andeh 15:53, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I've been doing anything listed at Wikipedia:Template_substitution, the only other task I have been doing is fixing the user box redirects. Everything seems fine so far.--Andeh 14:35, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- This looks fine, APPROVED, ping me if you think you will need a flag. — xaosflux Talk 01:22, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Updating categories which have been renamed due to discussions at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. So just replacing old categories to new ones, so the old ones can be deleted.--Andeh 18:36, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please fill these in: — xaosflux Talk 22:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Automatic or Manually Assisted: manually given tasks
Programming Language(s): (AWB?) <--yep, same as usual
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): anytime, whenever I tell it to
Edit rate requested: X edits per TIME, well I don't really mind, but the backlog is pretty big so at least 5 per min, maybe higher at off-peak times.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): don't mind, all edits will be marked as minor so people can filter them out, but if i'm going to be changing article categories probably best if it was flagged.
- Hope the answers are satisfactory. :) --Andeh 23:03, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion
[edit]Looks like you will likely be needing a bot flag with all these tasks, unless your edit rate requested above will be low. — xaosflux Talk 22:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks Good, go ahead and trial run this, flag as minor, trial run up to a week/up to 300 edits. Unless this gets declined for some reason then upon closing, BOT FLAG APPROVED. — xaosflux Talk 02:20, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Approximately 330 category replacement edits done, all seems fine. Backlog has become huge since. When the backlog has been reduced I may request the bot be un-flagged. Special:Contributions/AP.BOT.--Andeh 16:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Everything looks fine, BOT APPROVED, FLAG APPROVED. — xaosflux Talk 01:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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