Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Joe's Null Bot 6


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Joe's Null Bot 6
Operator:

Time filed: 20:33, Wednesday May 29, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: On request, should be different parameters to the code used by tasks 1 and 5

Function overview: Purge/forcelinkupdate Category:Duplicate or hardcoded templates awaiting deletion

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Village_pump_(technical)

Edit period(s): 1/x day

Estimated number of pages affected:  Looks like about 10-20 purges per day

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): y

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

Function details: As with CSD C1 (task 5), CSD T3 includes a delayed expiration, the deletion isn't to be carried out until, in this case, seven days have passed. The 7 day calculation is part of a macro inside the relevant CSD template, however, when looking at the categories, stale tagged templates are not visible, due to the same bugs that underly task1/task5. By virtue of a daily run through Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical), will become visible relatively promptly in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unused redundant templates, at present I notice a few items that have lingered for 3 weeks or more without showing up when the latter category is viewed.

Discussion
 ·addshore·  talk to me! 22:38, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
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