Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SMS Bot


 * 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.

SMS Bot
Operator: S M S   Talk

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: This bot will add WikiProject banners at talk pages of articles.

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

Edit rate requested: 5-6 edits per min

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

Function Details: SMSBot will tag Article talk pages with missing WikiProject Banners. It will run automatically using AWB(Kingbotk Plugin). It will tag only those articles which are present in the particular Wikiproject's Category.i.e. that category list will be the opt-in list.

Discussion
Ok, seems straight forward enough. Will it respect the nobots tag? If yes, then I see no reason a BAGer can't do a trial run. If no, then is there a good reason not to respect nobots?  MBisanz  talk 22:05, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Does it support the nested parameter ? Monobi (talk) 23:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry! I couldn't get what nested parameter? --[[User:Smsarmad|S M S ]] Talk 04:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * If you are asking if it will add WikiProject Banner in WikiProjectBanners and WikiProjectBannerShell, so yes it will if there is one already present at the page, as this is supported by Kingbotk Plugin. -- S M S  Talk 05:15, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

AWB always respects nobots. — Werdna talk 00:17, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this using the Kingbotk plugin, or something else to deal with placement of talk page templates? Gimmetrow 01:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Err, Werdna, on my version of AWB, under the Options menu, it says "ignore bot & nobots".  MBisanz  talk 02:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, it will use User:Kingbotk/Plugin and will respect nobots, as this is by default active in AWB, if "Ignore bots and nobots" is not checked in the options menu. -- S M S  Talk 04:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I have no objection to a trial run.  MBisanz  talk 06:26, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * This plugin is in widespread use, and, is fairly uncontroversial. I would strongly suggest contact with the relevant wikiprojects before undergoing a tagging run (from personal experience), but, other than that, this is a very straightforward and simple program. Go ahead and do a small run (try to keep it under 250 edits if you can, which is relatively small. I think the last few I ran were in the thousands.), to make sure you have AWB and the plugin set up correctly, and, we can get this sorted fairly quickly.  SQL Query me!  19:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Done 245 Edits. -- S M S  Talk 07:31, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me,  SQL Query me!  20:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


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