Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JJBot 2



JJBot 2
Operator:   jj137  ♠

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, supervised

Programming Language(s): Python, AutoWikiBrowser

Function Summary: To deliver the newsletter for WikiProject Boston Red Sox each week.

Edit period(s): Once each week (on Sunday), will take approximately 10 minutes. However, sometimes it could be only once a month, every two weeks, etc.

Edit rate requested: 8 edits per minute at the most

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

Function Details: JJBot will use Python or AWB (preferably AWB) to deliver a newsletter for WikiProject Boston Red Sox each week to ~50 people. It will nearly all of the time be each Sunday (I explained situations below). For now, that is the only task I will have it do.

Discussion
How do people opt-in or opt-out of recieving your newsletter? -- maelgwn - talk 04:15, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I had a previous RFBA that I withdrew, and the reopening time was obviously delayed. Now, I understand there are already several functioning bots to deliver newsletters for WikiProjects, but I am requesting I use my own because we occasionally will change delivery times, and it will be confusing using someone else's bot.   jj137  ♠ 03:26, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Currently, there is a list at BOSOX/NEWS where people can opt in to receive the newsletter (it is fairly new). I can simply change it to a list of people who will opt out of getting the newsletter.   jj137  ♠ 05:18, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

or one full run, upto you which. -- maelgwn - talk 22:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * OK. I'll be delivering the newsletter to ~45-50 people sometime Sunday (UTC).   jj137  ♠ 00:51, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * JJBot successfully delivered the newsletter to all members (43). At first, I accidentally had the bot running too fast, but then I fixed that.   jj137  ♠ 05:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It looks good, but we need to make sure that it works with the opt out. Let's go again for next week! Other than that, icely done! Soxred93 has a boring sig 05:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, but we will apparently have to wait until someone opts out (no one has yet).   jj137  ♠ 02:45, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
 * How did they opt in in the first place? -- maelgwn - talk 03:34, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
 * All members receive the newsletter, and they can easily change their "status" at BOSOXNEWS.   jj137  ♠ 03:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: the newsletter has been delayed one week.   jj137  ♠ 23:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * (re-indenting)

JJBot successfully delivered the newsletter to everyone in the project except: EvilHom3r, who chose not to receive the newsletter; and Soxrock, who I manually removed from receiving the newsletter because he is on an indefinite wikibreak and hasn't been here in over a month. If he ever comes back (I'm assuming he will, he's just at another wiki) he wouldn't want his talk page spammed with newsletters for a team he hates.  jj137  ♠ 04:16, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Opt out appears to work, looks good. Good Luck!  Soxred 93  | t cd b 04:33, 13 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.