Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PlangeBot


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

PlangeBot
Operator: Plange

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually assisted - I will set it up to start the run and monitor.

Programming Language(s): Will use AWB with plugin

Function Summary: To tag talk pages from categories listed on WikiProject Military history/Automation as safe to run (possibility of false positives - low) as well as on WikiProject Biography/Automation with the respective project templates, and if the category is a stub category, with a class rating of Stub and the additional stubclass template

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Occasionally, maybe once or twice a week

Edit rate requested: AWB on one second throttle; up to 30 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function Details:

Discussion
Please provide one (1) diff of an edit this bot will make. Thank you -- Tawker 06:01, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure thing :-) Here's one when I was using AWB in manual mode. I've only been able to use it in manual sans bot and so can only go through small categories (as hitting save over and over gets tiring), but am running out of small categories. Some of the MILHIST and BIO categories have hundreds and even a couple thousand in them... --plange 06:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks fine to me, 30 edits a minute is a bit fast though (and probably not possible!). Martin 08:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Bot523 retrieves 12 edit pages per minute (when it submits an edit, that's an extra page). To keep up this speed, it often has three edit windows open at once. You'd need a really good Web connection to manage 1 edit per 2 seconds (that's 1 page download/upload per second if all of them are edits), and 1 per second is robots.txt's absolute maximum. I'd suggest changing the throttle to 12 or 10 per minute. --ais523 10:02, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * User:Kingbotk runs with a 1 second throttle and still only manages to do one edit per AWB every 10-14 seconds (my plugin has a timer feature which divides total time by number of pages to get a seconds per page rate). I don't have the fastest of connections though. --kingboyk 12:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * oops, yep, go with your estimates, I was just guessing :-) --plange 15:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Presumably you'll be using my plugin? The regular expressions in that are well tested, and Plange is a trustworthy and sensible user, so this looks quite routine to me. --kingboyk 12:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Yep, I'll be using it... --plange 15:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Bot flag approved -- Tawker 05:51, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks! So how do I get added to the AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage as an enabled user? --plange 01:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Any admin adds you. PlangeBot has been approved to use AWB. Alphachimp 02:37, 6 October 2006 (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.