Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BotPuppet


 * 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.

BotPuppet
Operator: Master of Puppets  Call me MoP! :)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised for the first bit, then I'll let it run by itself.

Programming Language(s): AWB.

Function Summary: Substitute widely-used templates to conserve processing power, such as unsigned.

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

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

Function Details: Basically, I'll use unsigned as an example. There are approximately 25000 transclusions of this template that are not substituted. Say each of those pages is accessed 5 times a day by unique users; that means unsigned is being used 125000 times a day, using unnecessary resources.

Discussion
If there's already a bot like this, please don't hate me. Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :)  06:55, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

What's And Sri-Lankan.? =Nichalp  «Talk»=  07:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


 * That was a joke. I'll remove it, this probably isn't the time to be silly. Master of Puppets  Call me MoP! :)  07:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

This is one of the most cloned tasks there is. Do you have a list of all the templates you plan to substitute? BJ Talk 07:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, if there are lots of people doing this, they're apparently not doing it. As for templates;

If I add all of those then I may as well make it a daily bot. Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :)  07:22, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * bio-cats
 * footnotes & Footnotestext
 * lived
 * prettytable, Prettytable-center, Prettytable95, Prettytable100, Prettytable100center, Prettyinfobox, PrettytableN, Prettytablewidth, Prettytable-center2
 * tmfrom, tmto
 * All warning templates
 * afd top, afd bottom
 * mfd top, mfd bottom
 * rfd top, rfd bottom
 * mfd
 * debate top, debate bottom
 * Nowrap
 * WP:RM, Move2
 * afd
 * doctl
 * nld
 * NoMoreLinks
 * nrd
 * nsd
 * orfud
 * or-fu-re
 * prod
 * rfu
 * refu-c
 * copyvio
 * unsigned
 * BJ Talk 20:20, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Trial went great; contributions are green across the board. The majority were unsigned notices, but there's 25000 of those so it'll be working those for a while. Anyway, I'm happy with the performance (set it to edit once every 6 seconds, is that ok? It's ok for me). Master of Puppets  Call me MoP! :)  03:00, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Good trial, works well, simple. — Coren (talk) 03:11, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


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