Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 35


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Legobot 35
Operator:

Time filed: 03:31, Monday September 23, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Bash, Java, Python

Source code available: some of it

Function overview: Update List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_recent_edits/Data

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): monthly-ish

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details:


 * It's very hacky:
 * There's a shell+python script on the 'low' tool on labs that forces a re update of the data when the new dump comes out for the month. It dumps it to ~/public_html/result.txt
 * Another python script in the 'legobot' tool pulls that text file and updates the page accordingly.

Discussion

 * Example edit: . Legoktm (talk) 03:33, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

(probably the smallest trial I have ever set). Let's see this once before approval. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:39, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Is making that edit really that difficult? Armbrust The Homunculus 15:02, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I just got busy with other stuff, and forgot about this. I've started a run. Legoktm (talk) 16:44, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Do the runs take a long time, or is there some manual process involved that hasn't happened? Josh Parris 06:06, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I had a typo in my crontab so the update wasn't running. Fixed, . Legoktm (talk) 04:50, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. I'll let this sit a bit to see if anyone objects, but I don't foresee any problems. Josh Parris 06:45, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Josh Parris 07:36, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
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