Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ClueBot III


 * 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.

ClueBot III
Operator: -- Cobi(t

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised.

Programming Language(s): PHP, my classes, you should know this by now ;)

Function Summary: Automatic archival of pages which bear the appropriate template.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous, it has it's own internal scheduler.

Edit rate requested: maxlag = 2

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

Function Details: Archive pages which transclude, generate archive indexes of those pages, and fix backlinks pointing to archived sections.

Discussion

 * I've discussed this with Cobi on IRC and this bot is great. I'm supporting a trial run for it. I see no harm in another archival bot. This one just adds more options then the current (werndabot and miszabots). ~   Wi ki  her mit  14:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The only thing I don't like is you can't chose your target. For example, the bot archived to User talk:Wikihermit/2007/September. I wanted it to go to User talk:Wikihermit/Archive 4. I think the target=%s parameter should be available. ~   Wi ki  her mit  18:27, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This is because you asked it to archive to "User talk:Wikihermit/2007/September." With format=Y/F, that means the page should be in the format Year/Month.  If you wanted /Archive 4, then you should have used archiveprefix=User talk:Wikihermit/Archive|format= 4  -- The bot doesn't support automatic incremental backups, *yet*, but I am working on that.  -- Cobi(t 19:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm going to go ahead and approve a trial. Cobi is an experienced bot op who knows what he is doing, and seven days should be long enough for some sort of archival. ~   Wi ki  her mit  21:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Like MiszaBot, but better! You have my full support for running this, even thought it's a bit of a combination of MiszaBot and the HBC Archive IndexerBot. GrooveDog (talk) (Review) 20:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Trial is over. Everything seems fine.  -- Cobi(t 21:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

- Good Good. Bot will run with a flag!! Reedy Boy 21:52, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


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