Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AwOcBot 2


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

User:AwOcBot
Operator: AwOc

Automatic or Manually assisted: user requests set of changes

Programming language(s): php

Source code available: on request

Function overview: interwiki solving on user request

Edit period(s): on request

Estimated number of pages affected: up to one page on en: per request

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): no

Function details: : me or trusted users create a list with pages on different pages (e.g. de:User:AwOcBot/iw-job, like on Interwiki_synchronization), the bot does the changes (log for test-edits:de:User:AwOcBot/iw-log)

Discussion
So someone gathers the interwiki pages into sets and posts them to your page on de. You say a trusted user? How is this controlled, the page seems unprotected? Do you mean auto confirmed? What happens if a someone posts 300,000 correct interwikis? How fast will they be processed? Rich Farmbrough, 06:09, 27 August 2009 (UTC).
 * first i will confirm it manually. maybe i use a .css-page which is only editable by owner and admins. additionally i could create a list on a in this way protected page of users i trust. then the bot could watch .css-pages in their user-namespace too. --AwOc 15:36, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * If you are doing the work of adding the correct links to the .css page anyway, why would it not be easier to add the interwiki links to the actual Wikipedia page instead of having the bot doing that? - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:08, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * no, you have the article in many languages. sometimes it is done if you fix the interwikis in one article, the rest will be done by one of the many pywikipedia-bots. but often there is a wrong link, brought by bot to many articles. it is necessary to delete them from all languages. this can't be done by pywikipedia. (see Rubén Sosa for example) --AwOc 11:53, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The edits look good enough. However, you should not have been testing this bot in the mainspace before approval. Please review WP:Bot policy, it's not a big problem though. - Kingpin13 (talk) 17:07, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
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