Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rick Bot 3


 * 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)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

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

Function Summary: Maintain WBFTN and associated by-year nomination lists such as Featured topics 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 (and recently approved) for WBFLN. Involves:
 * 1) reading the previous and current monthly log files.
 * 2) reading an archived nomination page for each promoted topic and determining the nominator(s).  This is done by determining the user who created the nomination page.
 * 3) adding any new nominations to the appropriate by-year nomination list.
 * 4) reading FT and FFT.
 * 5) updating all by-year nomination lists to indicate current featured (or not) status
 * 6) reading all (updated) by-year nomination lists and regenerating the table in WBFTN

Discussion
Fine. Objections? — Werdna talk 12:07, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. Mr.Z-man 23:12, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Given that the bot has already been performing a nearly identical task since the prior BRfA without a problem, and no objections have been raised, I think this can safely be :)  krimpet  ✽  23:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


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