Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Scsbot


 * 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.svgSymbol support vote.svg Speedily Approved.

Scsbot
Operator: Ummit

Automatic or Manually Assisted:

Semiautomatic and supervised. (By "semiautomatic" I mean that it is kicked off manually, not invoked out of cron or anything like that.)

Programming Language(s):

sh

Function Summary:

Archive the Reference Desks and the Help Desk.

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

Once per day, at approximately 00:00.

Edit rate requested: X edits per TIME

32 edits in 10 minutes.

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

N (and no bot flag is requested at this time).

Function Details:

For each of 7 reference desks, and one help desk:


 * 1) Add next day's level-1 date header
 * 2) Extract one day's content from RD/HD page, replacing it with link to daily archive page
 * 3) Create daily archive with content extracted in (2)
 * 4) Add link to, and TOC of, daily archive page to monthly archive page (creating monthly archive page if necessary)

Discussion
As mentioned above, this is not a request for a bot flag, merely whatever kind of approval is needed for a semiautomatic bot.
 * Thanks for going through this process, it makes it official. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 01:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Since the bot has been running already, and it has nothing wrong, the trial is unnecessary. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 03:36, 1 August 2007 (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.