Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ArkyBot 2


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ArkyBot
Operator:  ɑʀк  ʏɑɴ 

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): PHP

Function Summary: Per unfufilled request at BOTREQ, basically to replace the AfD analysis functionality of DFBot, which has gone inactive.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

Edit rate requested: 1-10 per hour

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: I'm not entirely certain that approval is needed for this task but I am being cautious and will list it anyway :) The bot is fairly simple - it gets a listing of open AfD discussions and then checks each discussion for a basic summary.  This summary is then presented in table format.  It more or less emulates the functionality of the AfD summary presented by the apparently defunct DFBot, see User:Dragons flight/AFD summary for a full summary of the behavior I am attempting to emulate.

Discussion
--ST47 Talk·Desk 10:28, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You seem to be having some Unicode issues, and /Unusual doesn't seem to be displaying what it should. Otherwise, the trial looks fine.  Are you ready to finish it?  — madman bum and angel 17:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I flubbed the unicode again (I had a similar situation with the bot's primary task and had trouble remembering how I fixed it) :) I'm still tweaking the code, although I have run in to a minor issue regarding hosting - normally I run the bot manually, but the host I had planned to use to do scheduled runs seems to be using a different version of PHP and the code isn't behaving the way it should.  I'm working on ironing out the differences so it runs as expected.  ɑʀк  ʏɑɴ  17:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I think it's running normally now :) Should be able to have it up and going soon as I sort out the hosting issue.  ɑʀк  ʏɑɴ  14:54, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * That's fine, post some diffs when you're complete. — E  talkbots 00:23, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * There are 6 pages that the bot posts the summarys on. They are all listed at User:ArkyBot/AFD summary.  Most recent diffs are, , , , , and .  ɑʀк  ʏɑɴ  15:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

— madman bum and angel 13:16, 24 October 2007 (UTC)


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