Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Revibot


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Revibot
Operator:

Time filed: 03:27, Saturday November 22, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Pywikibot

Source code available:

Function overview: Update userspace counter

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No):

Function details: This bot will edit User:Revi/counter (my doppleganger's subpage) page and put the value toward specific date for use on userbox. (think of D-Day counter)

Discussion

 * You don't need a bot to update a countdown - you can do that with ParserFunctions.


 * For example:

will give you


 * You can fiddle with the  function's parameter if you want fractional parts of days, etc:

will give you   Reticulated Spline (t &bull; c) 14:15, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, then I withdraw this request. &mdash; Revi 14:30, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Uncontroversial non-BAG closure.
 * You're most welcome! Reticulated Spline (t &bull; c) 15:03, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
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