Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ChoreBot


 * 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 neutral vote.svg Request Expired.

ChoreBot
Operator: William Pietri

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Java

Function Summary: Sending regular user-requested reminders for chosen Wikipedia chores.

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

Edit rate requested: 100 edits per week 5 edits per minute

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

Function Details:

Via a user-page template, users can request that ChoreBot regularly remind them to work on things of their own choosing. For example, I might tell it that I want to spend an hour every Sunday on CAT:CSD. Initially ChoreBot will only send email reminders via "Email This User". I will likely add an option for talk-page reminders, too, but I don't expect a lot of volume there, thus the low edit count. It will not edit any pages but the talk pages of users who have subscribed. See User:ChoreBot for more info.

Discussion
It looks great to me. I wouldn't limit your edit count per week, though; you might just want to use a standard edit rate (5 edits/minute, for example). — madman bum and angel 19:30, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Great point. I've changed it to match, although just to be clear I still expect a very low rate of actual edits. Thanks! William Pietri 20:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Thanks for all the documentation; have at it.  Symbol support vote.svg '''Approved for trial (50 edits) (10 e-mails). — madman bum and angel 23:58, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Any news/Updates —  Reedy  Boy  10:42, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi! Sorry, none to speak of yet. A bunch of client work appeared unexpectedly. I have some code that does the reads I want, but I'm not sending any emails out yet. Given work and upcoming holidays, it will probably be mid-January at the earliest before I have time to complete and test this. William Pietri (talk) 16:28, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Marking request as expired as it was either never transcluded to BRFA or has had no attention for some time.  Richard 0612  12:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


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