Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EBot 2


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

EBot 2
Operator: JamesR

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, monitored by operator.

Programming language(s): Perl or AutoWikiBrowser.

Function overview: Appending archived template to all cases within Wikipedia:Abuse reports/*.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Discussion has been present via mailing lists.

Edit period(s): One-time run.

Estimated number of pages affected: Approximately 800 pages are affected by this task.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes.

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

Function details: Per the discussion on the mailing list and the revamp process of WP:ABUSE, all previous cases in the space of Wikipedia:Abuse reports/* need to have the abuse archived template appended to the page.

Discussion
 MBisanz  talk 22:47, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 50 edits performed. &mdash;  JamesR ( talk ) 10:15, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * What caused this pageto be edited twice? Also, would it be possible to see the discussion regarding this? Or at least have a confirmation from the users at abuse response that this is wanted? - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:36, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * AWB may have had a little hiccup, the page was only listed once, so maybe a network issue somewhere? I'll notify the relevant people to contribute their confirmation to the BRFA. &mdash;  JamesR ( talk ) 10:40, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Great, I'd suggest placing a skip if contains "abuse archived" to avoid it in future. - Kingpin13 (talk) 10:46, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, I have added it to the syntax file for future edits. Thank you for informing me of this issue. &mdash;  JamesR ( talk ) 10:48, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

<-- As one of the coordinators I just wanted to pop in and vouch for the necessity of this over at WP:ABUSE. The vast amount of old, and very stale, reports we had from the previous system have been rotting for a while now and while the original idea was to delete them we are thinking that archiving them (with the template) would be the best move at least for now.  James  ( T | C )  04:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Im not a co-ordinator, but one of the longer standing active WP:ABUSE volunters (and im also on the mailing list). The neccesity of the bot is paramount to enable consistent archiving of old cases, much like mediation or SPI.  « l | Promethean ™ | l »   (talk) 05:07, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 *  MBisanz  talk 06:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.