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I'm requesting approval to run Fluxbot with AWB semi-automatic mode.
Please consider the uses below seperatley.
It's primary purpose would be updating article categories that qualify under CFDS. I currently run these either by hand, or with AWB under my admin account. Working CFDS requires an admin, as the final step is a deletion. The deletion would of course always be run manually by my admin account.
AWB's throtle feature would be utilized to prevent excessive server utilization.
These categories can be quite large at times, so in addition to running with AWB's automode, a bot flag may be useful to reduce overhead on recent change patrollers. — xaosflux Talk 04:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Example of a run can be seen at: Special:Contributions/Fluxbot (run in manual mode). — xaosflux Talk 05:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
A seconday proposed use would be replacing user space templates that have been migrated according to The German Solution. A bandaid solution on these is temporarily leaving Tempalte: --> User: redirects in place, pending cleanups. — xaosflux Talk 05:03, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Substing in stylistic tempaltes such as {{ clear}} that were not substed in during the original use. — xaosflux Talk 01:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Both uses (#1 and #2 <three added after the fact by — xaosflux Talk>) look fine to me, go ahead and run it on a trial run -- Tawker 05:07, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Sounds good, I'd recommend some form of sanity-checking on the cfd tasks. People make mistakes. If the bot reads some incorrectly formatted (or just plain wrong) category information, some fool will be like "zomg broken bot" and block it indefinitely. — Jun. 13, '06 [03:19] < freak| talk>
This bot would run in AWB's automatic mode on my second computer using my User:Alphachimpbot account. It would automate the tedious task of assigning a particular month tag to articles listed in [[Category:Wikipedia cleanup]]. Wikipedia cleanup states that the pages are automatically assigned a month after 24 hours. In my experience, however, this is not the case. The bot users listed on the Wikipedia:Cleanup_Taskforce/Members/Members_by_interest#Bot_programmers are all currently inactive.
I've been doing this task for several days on my primary ( User:Alphachimp} account. To say the least, it is incredibly tedious and easily automated. Admittedly, the changes I've made using my primary account have been somewhat larger than those I am proposing. I have removed multiple wiki links, removed stub cats for large articles, categorized, and unicoded the articles. I am not proposing these changes. This bot would only replace the {{cleanup}} tag with the {{Cleanup-date|MONTH YEAR}}.
As to the scope of the changes, there are currently 1210 pages listed on [[Category:Wikipedia cleanup]]. The bot would specify the specific current month as the situation merited (probably once daily). I would be open to suggestions for best run times to minimize server stress and response times. The bot would run at 30-60 second intervals, as specified on WP:BOT. It would always be attended, and I would be willing to submit to a trial run (although I have already been making these changes manually).
I appreciate your consideration. -- Alphachimp talk 22:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, go ahead and trial it for a week, it looks ok to me -- Tawker 23:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Looks good to me, bot flag is on the way -- Tawker 04:49, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Requesting approval for this, a simple clone of tawkerbot, will be added to the pool when needed (high levels of vandalism or the other bots die) Shaun Eccles-Smith 08:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC).
Tawbot uses Tawbot framework (in Perl). It has over 100000 edits on pl.wp. It is maintained by me.
It never runs automatically.
The only thing I intend to use it for is importing stubs for Polish members of Parliament, probably just 2001-2005 and 2005-2009 terms. Example (in Polish) - pl:Jacek_Bogucki.
Here here - User:Tawbot/Sample Polish MP stub. Taw 12:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, so first round is done. 439 new stubs were created, 24 had pre-existing articles and weren't touched by the bot.
I'd like to do Senate (100 people + replacement MPs / term) and earlier terms.
I think it would make sense to import every MP since 1989. Earlier (Communist) parliament wasn't that important, and I think significant number of MPs from that time weren't really notable enough for encyclopedia. And there isn't that much data about those times on parliament's website in any case.
So we have five terms to do: 1989-1991, 1991-1993, 1993-1997, 1997-2001, and 2001-2005. The first two have no photos (but many MPs were also in the parliament later, so we may still have their phonos), but these were pretty hot times, so it would be silly not to have them described. As 43% of current MPs were in parliament before I guess that would be some 1700 new stubs.
The data for each term is different, so I'll make a few samples before running.
Any comments ? Taw 20:46, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I would like approval to run my interwiki-bot TuvicBot (using Pywikipedia). This bot will run in manually assisted mode, adding and updating interwiki-links, using the Dutch wiki as a starting point. I'm mostly planning to solve interwikis that autonomous bot skip because they're ambigious. -- Tuvic 20:37, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
If approved, this bot will be a semi-automated maintenance bot, performing tasks such as template substitution using AWB. It will run automatically (without each edit being manually approved) but will be supervised at all times. The main use of the bot will be subst'ing certain user talk messages such as {{ welcome}} per WP:SUBST. Thanks, — Fire Fox 17:23, 03 July '06
Greetings. I'm requesting affirmative go for the running of a keiteibot by a keitei. The bot is automatic and runs on pywikipedia. I'm open to input on how often to run it, but every 10-30 minutes is ideal. The purpose is for the Mediation Cabal. Currently it's a mess to add new cases, with several templates and complicated instructions. This bot would just compile a list of pages in a category and list them at the bottom (There's an inputbox in the works that would complete the super simple process). If there's no change, it doesn't edit. With additional community support, it'd do the same for open cases, at the same time, on the same page. Mostly I need it because I'm not awake 24/7 and because I'd like the MedCab to be more friendly and easier to use. The script was written by Ericj and is available here. He notes that it's not polished yet, and may change. I don't think this bot would ever require a bot flag. Pretty please? :] -- Keitei ( talk) 12:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Bot has been running smoothly (once the regulation was figured out) without a hitch. No borking of any pages has occurred! -- Keitei ( talk) 08:05, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm the owner of the account MiszaBot ( talk · contribs · count) and have already been performing some tasks using it (the bot has been listed on Wikipedia:Bots under "bots running without a flag" for a long time now). The bot's duties include:
Technical details:
As of now, the newsletter has been delivered succesfully 4 times, with much success (only a few errors which have since been corrected). The spamming is getting heavy though (400+ members) and hard on the RC (many complaints about poisoned watchlists also), which leads me to request a bot flag. Misza 13 T C 12:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
I request to run an AWB based bot under the account User:KonstableBot. I intend to initially use it to do automatic Unicodification of articles relating to New Zealand. There are a lot of place names and terms used throughout the articles which are in Te Reo Māori and it can be needlessly difficult to read and edit some articles due to use of HTML special characters rather than unicode. Later on I may expand to unicodify other areas of Wikipedia if there is a need. The bot would make edits automatically using AWB's existing features (unicodification only, everything else turned off). -- Konstable 15:20, 8 July 2006 (UTC) After some thinking I realised that the Unicodification task of NZ articles would only take a couple of days at the most. So I would like to extend my request to allow me to help out with subst:'ing templates, more specifically for user and user talk namespaces. I would choose targets using "What links here" for each template found under: Wikipedia:Template substitution#User_namespace.-- Konstable 00:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
I'd like permission to assist FFBot in subst'ing warnings/message templates on talk pages (using AWB). I have discussed this with FireFox and he has welcomed my assistance.
Even though I've already said it, Alphachimpbot is a directly monitored bot account of Alphachimp, an established user with over 6000 edits in the English wikipedia. Alphachimpbot currently replaces cleanup templates with cleanup-by-month templates to replace work once done by other bots. Alphachimp talk 16:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello. This is my first time trying to request permission to run a bot so I apologize if some things aren't so neat. Anyway, I am requesting permission to run TuspmBot (as you can see, I've already set up a userpage for it). I plan on this bot being a spell-checking bot and manually operated. You can expect the bot to run everyday. The language the bot will use will be English. The purpose of my bot is to correct spelling errors on Wikipedia and make it a more better website. I've been part of the Wikipedia community since February 2006 and I already have over 2,000 edits (most of which are reverting vandalism). I would like to have this bot to assist me in fixing common spelling mistakes. Thank you. -- Tuspm Talk | Contribs | E-Mail Me 17:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Previous request for full approval and bot flag was archived here, without explicit approval, disappoval or pending questions from the AG. Can someone finish reviewing, or clarify if there are any outstanding issues? Thanks. Alai 03:30, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Per the earlier response, you are approved for your trial run. Please posts some results and difs when complete. — xaosflux Talk 04:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, and the linked-to request was for final approval. (Seemed inappropriate to file this under "one week trial", give the timeframe.) OK, here's some diffs chosen arbitrarily from the contribs. All arise from SFD discussions, or I think in one case a discussion with clear consensus (nay, unanimity) at WP:WSS/P. Alai 05:38, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Since there are so many orphan images on Wikipedia, I've been using AWB for the last couple of days to tag unused fair use images listed at Special:Unusedimages with {{ Orphaned fairuse not replaced}}, but clicking "Save" every 30 seconds is getting a little bit boring, so I'd like to get a bot permission for this so I can use AWB's auto mode. I will of course still monitor the process. -- Fritz Saalfeld ( Talk) 14:21, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Requesting permission to run WdefconBot ( talk · contribs · count). This is a combo of an IRC bot (nick WdefconBot) that sits (so far only) in #vandalism-en-wp and:
!wdefcon edit level=[0-5] info=<situation description>
The bot is live - you can visit #vandalism-en-wp and try it yourself. While people aren't eager to use it yet, some have expressed interest in its services. Misza 13 T C 15:34, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
No major objections really, but allowing any user in the channel to use the bot to make an edit seems to me to violate the policy against role accounts... accounts for a specific role that many people have access too... The policy allows exemptions agreed to by the foundation (their PR firm or somesuch was allowed one). Perhaps you should ask for one for this as well? - M ask 01:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I have no problems with this one, as for the role account concerns, I think it's pretty obvious what it's doing and isn't a concern at all (in that sort of regard the Tawkerbot series is a role account as multiple people have access to those accounts) - Essjay has my full approval to flag this one -- Tawker 02:02, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
On average, between five and ten AfD nominations made each day are incomplete (for various reasons). In at least one case, these can be fixed (semi)-automatically: when all steps are performed but the third (listing the subpage in the daily AfD page). I'd like to have permission for DumbBOT ( talk · contribs) to perform the following functions:
This is to be done semi-manually: I'd run the first script, then check the incomplete noms that can be fixed automatically and run the second script on them. ( Liberatore, 2006). 14:46, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I request permission to run the bog-standard pywikipediabot on English wikipedia under account RobotG, manually. I intend to start gradually, and will begin by instructing it to do simple category renaming and/or removal per WP:CFD (for which I see there is a small backlog). If I see other tasks I could ask the bot to help with then I will ask permission here first. Category renaming/removal are community-endorsed edits, so the bot flag would help avoid clutter in the recent changes log. Please may I have permission to test it out? -- RobertG ♬ talk 09:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Seems fine to me. You've obviously been doing trial runs, so do a week's run starting now and bring us back results this time next week. Essjay ( Talk • Connect) 04:11, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I am requesting to run an AWB bot to 1. Subst talk page templates listed in Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace, especially {{ unsigned}} and test templates. 2. Unicodfying China-related articles, with article list from categories and stub categories. -- WinHunter ( talk) 16:54, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
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is a much nicer answer.
Martin 10:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I was given permission a month ago to run a special redirect fixing bot in trial-mode. I'd like to see if it can be fully approved. Its contributions are here. Will ( message me!) 18:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
More comments: In it's current state, it fails the usefulness requirement, but that will necessarily change in time. I can vouch for it's harmlessness because I meticulously check output for errors before running a real test which includes an upload action. It will not be a server hog because I will happily use database dumps (they're as good as the real thing, right?).
Basically, just a SandBot. Xaxafrad 07:01, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Just so I understand things clearly...If I ran a snippet of recursion code to progressively download every non-orphaned article with the pywikipedia framework, there's a built-in throttle so there'd be no problem, right? And so you understand clearly, any uploading will be to the bot's userpage (but I'm not working on that part yet). And that's okay? Xaxafrad 04:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Yo, per the request of Joturnner, I've expanded the functionality of LDBot to create the new subpages for the Current Events portal. An example edit can be seen here.
I'm not sure if I can approve my own bot, as I am in the approvals group, but I see no problem with it, as it's behaving just as the AFD functionality does. It'll create the page at midnight EASTERN, rather than UTC like the AFD functions.
Any questions, or concerns, let me know. -- light darkness ( talk) 18:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
I'd like DumbBOT ( talk · contribs) to produce, on a schedule, a list of prod'ed articles with times and reasons, such as User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary. This requires loading the category Category:Proposed deletion and all articles therein, and parsing the Template:Dated prod template arguments ( Liberatore, 2006). 11:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC) P.S. I was thinking to schedule this to be run each six hours or so. ( Liberatore, 2006). 11:53, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I would like to request a bot flag for the User:Wikipedia Signpost account. The account will be a backup to Ralbot ( approved in May) when Ral315 is unavailable, except that it will only spam the people on the Wikipedia Signpost spamlist, using only AWB. This will be manually-assisted; in other words, while the "automatic" feature will be used in AWB, it will have to be started manually and be monitored at all times. Given that I can't program (well, excluding java, which isn't an ideal language for bots), the account will not and can not do much else. I am also aware that manually-assisted use of AWB doesn't require a bot flag; however, I would like to not flood RC with the nearly 200 users on the spamlist. The account will only run and spam the people on the list on distribution days (usually late Mondays or early Tuesdays) when Ral315 and Ralbot is unavailable, meaning that the account should be sparingly used. I don't anticipate a problem with using AWB for this purpose. Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 23:58, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
EssjayBot ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
As anyone who pays attention to such will know, Sandbot ( talk · contribs) died on July 14th, roughly a week ago. I've been waiting and watching to see if it would come back to life, or if AllyUnion would be around to fix it, but that hasn't happpened. As such, I've gotten ahold of a sandbox reset script (thanks Jude) and set EssjayBot up to be able to run it. Assuming there won't be any objections, as all it does is reset the sandbox, I'd like input on how often to have it done; there is a manual reset function as well, located at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~essjay/sandbox.php. For me it's just a matter of setting the crontab and letting it run; I just need to know what to put in.
For the moment, I have it set to reset my own sandbox, to prevent abuse until everything is cleared; I will look at the best way to have it do everything that Sandbot handled shortly. I intend this as a temporary measure, with every confidence that Sandbot will be back; if not, I'll register a more appropriate name and set it up dedicated. Essjay (Talk) 06:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Okay, here's the update. I've gotten everything worked out so that it will cover all the sandboxes that Sandbot covered; a full list is on User:Essjaybot. There are manual resets for all the sandboxes (but not the talk pages) listed there. Additionally, unless I've messed up my crontab entry, it should run to clean the main sandbox & talk page every 12 hours (noon and midnight), and to clean all the others on Sunday night at midnight (I assume that is local time for Zedler). Per Tawker's authorization, I'm flagging it as a bot. Essjay (Talk) 12:42, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
This bot would run using AWB in bot mode, replacing with on Templates subst'ed by User:BetacommandBot. Crazynas t 01:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
There's a substantial backlog of re-sorting tasks for already-identified stubs in oversized categories. Sometimes these are double-stubbed with two stub types that now have been given a common child type, and this is in such cases becomes a purely mechanical task of replacing {{ X-stub}} and {{ Y-stub}} with {{ X-Y-stub}}. To help deal with these, I've written a simple extension of replace.py (please excuse my Python) which does such replacements, on an "all or nothing" basis (that is, it makes no change if it's not able to replace both original templates with the new one). This would run on lists of double-tagged articles produced from an offline partial database dump, and/or StubSense. As this uses different code from that already trialed and approved, I suggest a new trial run under a non-bot-flagged account, User:AlaibotToo, with the final-approved (if and when) updates to be done with the existing bot-flagged account. Alai 04:15, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
The bot is manually assisted, performing interwiki links and standardization, plus handling double redirects. It runs in the pywikipedia framework. It shall mostly see to that articles from the Romanian Wikipedia get linked to their homologues in the English one. -- Rebel2 19:15, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Alright, week's over. Seems fine to me. -- Rebel2 02:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
EssjayBot_II ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
EssjayBot's little brother, EssjayBot II, would like approval to archive pages in the same fashion as Crypticbot did. This is not the Crypticbot code, but a pywikipedia version worked up by Misza13. It archives based on the last timestamp in a section, working in whole-number days; sections without timestamps will be untouched.
Since WerdnaBot is handling most of Crypticbot's old haunts, my intention is to set it up to do various other pages that are not regularly archived: WP:CHU, WP:BN, and the talk pages of each. My intent is to have anything older than 2 days archived off CHU, anything older than 7 days archived off BN, and anything older than 10 days archived off the talk pages. Anyone interested in using EssjayBot II for archiving should drop me a talk page message.
I've done a quick test in my sandbox and everything seems in order. Due to the nature of the bot (archiving pages) and the limited number of times it should be editing, I don't think a flag is needed or desirable. Approval requested for the pages mentioned and others as needed. Essjay (Talk) 16:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Oy, I notice that Werdna648 ( talk · contribs), who runs Werdnabot ( talk · contribs), has not edited since July 20th (a week) and indicates he may not be back for several months. Given that Crypticbot, which did what WerdnaBot is doing now, was quickly blocked when Cryptic left, it looks like I may need to have EssjayBot II do some of the pages Crypticbot/WerdnaBot was doing, in particular, AN & ANI (I don't want to get into user talk page archiving as WerdnaBot did). I'm going to ask Misza13 to look into an auto-incrementing archive option (right now you have to hand-insert the archive number into the code) in case EssjayBot II is needed for AN/ANI. I would normally say that this would be included in the original authorization I requested ("the pages mentioned and others as needed") but I thought it best to bring it up anyway. Essjay (Talk) 05:01, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I've gotten a request to put the bot on ANI, as Werdnabot is having difficult with sections that have === subsections. My intent is to have the bot archive anything older than 24 hours once a day at midnight; I would go with longer, but the page is hovering near 300KB with anything over 48 hours old being archived 4 times a day. I'm also going to put in a manual archive trigger, though I don't plan to publicize it highly since manual archiving shouldn't be needed. I've run a test in my sandbox and everything worked fine; can I get an approval to go ahead an put the bot on ANI on this schedule? Essjay (Talk) 06:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
In the past I've been using Drinibot to handle tasks related to TFD (substing or removing templates prior to deletion, changing templates, etc). Now I?d like to request permission for Drinibot to handle CFD taks as well.
So in detail, this is what I need drinibot to do.
-- Drini 19:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I would like permission to run a bot to tag newly created copyvio articles with {{db-copyvio}} (although I would only tag with {{nothing}} and exit so I can look over the edit until I am confident in its accuracy in identifying copyvios). The bot is written in perl, although it calls replace.pl (from pywikimediabot). Once I work out the bugs, I would want to have the bot running continuously. -- Where 01:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The bot is currently listing possible copyvios to User:Where/cp as it finds them. -- Where 01:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Howdy. The bot has been running for a tad over a week. If anybody has any suggestions for improving the bot, I would be appreciative. Also, I am kind of curious how long the trial period lasts. Many thanks, -- Where 03:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)