Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DeltaQuadBot 5


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DeltaQuadBot 5
Operator:

Time filed: 19:24, Sunday March 27, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Not Public.

Function overview: Report names just as the UAA Module for SoxBot did.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Every 5 or 10 minutes.

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): N

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

Function details: Checks usernames on API, if they match the criteria, report them.

Discussion

 * Flagging this right away as the trial needs to start ASAP to get this thing starting to report some names as this was requested a while ago. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  19:24, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Please note the following different from SoxBot:
 * The Wait until edits is not yet programmed in, instead a message is outputed
 * All entries that do not directly match the Blacklist are subject to the similar charecters search
 * All entries are read as regex, but in a safe way (as in could be anything around it)
 * will be fixed on next upload to SVN.
 * Thanks. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  19:24, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Where does it report doubtful names?
 * Does the wording of the report include what you have sensibly said here, that regex can be wrong?
 * Why wait until they edit?
 * Does it do anything else than report?Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:27, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Well as SoxBot had it:
 * Usernames for administrator attention/Bot
 * The regex is only a way to try and check, quite a few entries were already regex flaged, but the operation should still be the same as if regex wasn't run (please also understand I am bridging between PHP and Python here). It's like walking your dog around the block one way or the other way.
 * Why wait until they edit, because that is how admins have asked for it. And also it just makes sense to see if a username is editing promotionally before you report/block them. (See the username policy for more info).
 * Uhh...in this task? No. As a bot, yes, I have other already approved tasks. Please see User:DeltaQuadBot for more information on what is already happening with the bot.
 * For more informtaion on the old SoxBot UAA task, please see the userpage, the the BRFA, and the old code. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  02:48, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Good for a test. - Kingpin13 (talk) 02:53, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I released the bot this morning to edit unsupervised on TS. Few minor template errors, but other than that it's running as it should/was asked to. DQ.alt (t)  (e)    16:06, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
 * This is lovely. I started a non-IRC version because it kept crashing...edited on linux and now it's gone. Will be rebuilding that for now and compensating for the wait till edit. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  02:10, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Still in the debugging state at this point. It was blocked for errors today. I will be looking into the exact cause for this. There was extended downtime last week due to toolserver issues. DQ.alt (t)  (e)    16:09, 18 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm done debugging one minor issue and a ready to go block button on the history so it's friendlier for watchlists. And I think I have overstayed my welcome on the trial. I will let it keep editing though. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  20:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm currently reviewing this, first thing to note is that the bot should remove blocked users from User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Wait - I doubt they're gonna be editing any time soon ;), so checking for edits from them is a waste of resources. - Kingpin13 (talk) 15:41, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

I have spoken to DeltaQuad about this, just to record on-wiki: The bot will now remove blocked users and will also not in the report if the bot waited for the user to edit. - Kingpin13 (talk) 20:23, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
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