Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Reports bot


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Reports bot
Operator:

Time filed: 03:30, Sunday, March 8, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available:   with possible adjustments

Function overview: This bot will generate reports on WikiProjects as part of the Database Reports portal.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Database reports, including these specific reports, have existed for many years to the satisfaction of many.

Edit period(s): Weekly

Estimated number of pages affected: 3

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Not applicable; bot operations are restricted to a specific subset of pages

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

Function details: For several years, BernsteinBot (operated by MZMcBride) has updated the database reports page. Many of these reports stopped being updated when the Toolserver was shut down. I would like to bring back the following reports:


 * Database reports/New WikiProjects
 * Database reports/WikiProjects by changes
 * Database reports/WikiProject watchers

These reports will run weekly. I may bring back the other database reports in the future, but for now these are top priority for me.

Discussion

 * — xaosflux  Talk 05:24, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I did the first run in a year for New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes. I have a crontab set up to run New WikiProjects each Monday and WikiProject by Changes each Tuesday, both at UTC midnight. We will see how that goes. WikiProject Watchers is on hiatus because, unlike the Toolserver, Tool Labs does not replicate the watchlist table. It's a long requested feature, and I gave them yet another push, but it will require clearance from Legal (Tool Labs needs to prepare a special version that complies with the privacy policy). Harej (talk) 15:17, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The bot has been running for over a month with no problems. Harej (talk) 01:08, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

-- Magioladitis (talk) 15:45, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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