Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot III 66


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DannyS712 bot III 66
Operator:

Time filed: 07:37, Sunday, December 8, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Javascript

Source code available: https://github.com/DannyS712/bot/blob/master/redirect-patroller.js

Function overview: Automatically patrol redirects created by specific users

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers/Redirect autopatrol

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: Lots

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: The recent rfc was snow closed with consensus to have a bot automatically patrol redirects created by some users. Who those users are has not yet been decided, but will be controlled via a fully protected page similar to the AWB checkpage.

Discussion

 * Technical details: In the function, I'll compare the user name to the list retrieved from the page onwiki. --DannyS712 (talk) 08:07, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Probably a social question rather than a technical one, but similar to autopatrol this right should be assignable by request from third parties, not just by request from the user. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:29, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The RFC was just closed, and the criteria haven't even been set as to who would be getting this "autopatrolled" variant. Please wait until there are actually pages to patrol resulting from this RFC before un-holding. Primefac (talk) 14:57, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The criteria is laid out at New pages patrol/Reviewers/Redirect autopatrol. I opened this now because I thought that things should be in the opposite order - i.e. don't start marking users as "autopatrolled" until there is a bot (or at least a trial) that would actually carry out the patrolling DannyS712 (talk) 20:19, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
 * FWIW I have setup basic pages for this project New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist. My thinking had been similar to Danny that this BRFA would be the next step in the process. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Sounds like there's no issue... I guess. Primefac (talk) 01:46, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
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