Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot1058 7


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Bot1058 7
Operator:

Time filed: 20:20, Wednesday, May 27, 2020 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: User:Bot1058/permalink.php

Function overview: Keep Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink up-to-date

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:Requested moves/Archive 33

Edit period(s): Continuous – every 10 seconds; most edits will be null edits

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: Keeps the revision ID (permanent link) of the current version of Requested moves/Technical requests, to support functionality of Template:RMassist and its subtemplate Template:RMassist/core. This functionality was previously supported by the { {REVISIONID}} magic word, which was broken when miser mode was implemented in February. My workaround uses the parser function which is still able to get the technical metadata of another page.

Discussion
I have boldly implemented this (WP:IAR) as this functionality has been broken for the past three months after the MediaWiki developers enabled "miser mode" without notifying the requested moves project in advance. Hoping for speedy approval as this only effects a single, newly-created page and the PHP code is, as you can see, very short and simple. – wbm1058 (talk) 20:28, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * If it's been broken for three months, couldn't it have afforded to wait for a BAG member to speedy-approve it? Naypta ☺ &#124; ✉ talk page &#124; 20:32, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Whatever. Nobody asked for permission to disable miser mode here. So far it's made all of seven edits, so consider this the trial run. It's not exactly making high-speed edits ;) wbm1058 (talk) 20:40, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Miser mode has been enabled since forever. What actually happened was that the behavior of "miser mode" changed to include disabling the REVISIONID magic word. Also, I agree with Naypta that this was not an appropriate usage of IAR. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:42, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

In the future, if you are applying for a speedy approval or it is particularly urgent, feel free to ping me or another BAG member (list of us). Please do not just wait 7 minutes and 9 seconds before boldly going ahead anyways. Unauthorized bot activity is grounds for a block of the bot account per WP:BOTBLOCK; it is definitely safer to wait. As per usual, if amendments to - or clarifications regarding - this approval are needed, please start a discussion on the talk page and ping. -- The SandDoctor Talk 02:04, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
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