Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Lowercase sigmabot II

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Lowercase sigmabot II

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

Time filed: 22:24, Sunday April 29, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic unsupervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Custom code using a class that inherits from simplemediawiki. It will be made available here when completely completed.

Function overview: Clean the sandbox, reinstate the sandbox header.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ChzzBot II and the lack of edits in Special:Contributions/ChzzBot_II

Edit period(s): Every 1 minute, and every hour

Estimated number of pages affected: 6, see sandboxes listed at User:ChzzBot II/doc

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): N/A

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: This task consists of two scripts.

• The first one will be run every 1 minute, to check if there is a sandbox header on the sandbox. If there is no sandbox header, it will prepend {{Sandbox heading}} \n\n to the sandbox.
• The second one will run every hour. It will overwrite the content of all sandboxes with:

{{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}}<!--
*               Welcome to the sandbox!              *
*            Please leave this part alone            *
*           The page is cleared regularly            *
*     Feel free to try your editing skills below     *
■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■-->

Discussion

• I've created the new account, Lowercase sigmabot II (talk · contribs), for now. →Στc. 22:24, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Speedily Approved. About as basic as tasks get. --Chris 14:45, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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