Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rick Bot 2


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

Rick Bot
Operator: Rick Block (talk) 14:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Shell/awk w/ pywikipedia

Function Summary: Maintain WBFLN and associated by-year lists such as Featured lists nominated in 2008

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily

Edit rate requested: Max would be less than 10 edits per day (more reads)

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: Just like what is currently done for WBFAN, but fully automated rather than manually assisted. Involves:
 * 1) reading the previous and current monthly log files
 * 2) reading an archived nomination page for each promoted list and determining the nominator(s).  This is currently done by looking for the first link to a user page in the contents of the nomination page.  An alternate approach would be to consider the user who created the nomination page the nominator (for a fully automated tool, I think this would probably be better)
 * 3) adding any new nominations to the appropriate by-year list
 * 4) reading FL and FFL
 * 5) updating all by-year lists to indicate current featured (or not) status
 * 6) reading all (updated) by-year lists and regenerating the table in WBFAN

Discussion
Sounds fine. — Werdna talk 06:06, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good.  SQL Query me!  12:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Checking through recent contribs it's been running fine as far as I could tell, might as well just close this to make it all official like. Q T C 06:42, 20 April 2008 (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.