Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Selmobot


 * 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.

Selmobot
Operator: Selmo

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually assisted. Automated.

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Mainly banner tagging, but also adding NavBoxes and general cleanup.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): This will be used only once in a while.

Edit rate requested: X edits per TIME 10 edits/minute.

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):No.

Function Details: fmtUses the Generic WikiProject templates AWB plugin to tag articles. Adds NavBoxes via the append feature.

Discussion

 * Any WikiProject banners and navboxes in particular? 10 edits per minute is extremely fast:  the normal max is 6.  If the edits are intended to be manually supervised, all the more reason to stick to a reasonable rate.  Alai 01:14, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I have a bot that is currently idle and is a approved for this I would glady do this if you give me the details Ill gladly make the bot run. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 01:18, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 6 then. The projects in question are the South Park and Vancouver project. The NavBox I have in mind is Vancouver landmarks, and other to be made templates (takes me about a half-hour to make a starter one). -- Selmo  (talk) 01:39, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Please run 10 edits and show the diffs. Thanks. Voice -of- All  19:48, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, my bot isn't flagged, and I need that before I can use AWB in bot mode, so unless I'm wrong, I can't. I don't think I need 10 edits/minute now that I think of it. -- Selmo  (talk) 01:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No, I mean ten edits as an amount, not a rate. Voice -of- All  02:37, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Why would you be running AWB in bot mode? Your request states "manually assisted".  Alai 14:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought bot mode meant that I wouldn't have to click "Save" every time I make an edit with it. I said "manually assisted" because I will watch what AWB is doing while it carries out it's task. -- Selmo  (talk) 00:46, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

        -- Selmo  (talk) 04:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Landmark navboxes are boxcruft IMO. Use a category for such simple lists. Only use navboxes if they actually provide some type of organization or extra information, rather than just links to articles. Kaldari 07:05, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Here are the diffs:

While this bot is stated as "manually assisted", it clearly is not, because manually assisted implies that the user must manually click save for each edit. This is not required in this case, but the distinction needed to be made. The bot is authorized for up to 6 edits per minute. We've approved these types of requests in the past, so there shouldn't be the need for that much discussion. I do have one concern, however. Edits like this and some others show that the Wikiproject Mass Transit is similar in some cases to Wikiproject Trains, which already are assessed (in this case, a featured article). Would it be possible to glean the rating information from the Trains wikiproject article to seed the mass transit wikiproject? I'm assuming that there are different criteria for rating from each Wikiproject, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Please run the trial for 50 - 100 edits and post the results here within 1 week. -- RM 15:24, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I have been running the bot for a while. Sorry that I couldn't do it sooner, I have a lot of things to do. Everything runs pretty smoothly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Selmo (talk • contribs)

I've looked over the edits so far, and I'm satisfied with how they look. Let's move ahead with this. The bot shall run with the bot flag at no more than 6 edits per minute (a throttle of 10 seconds per edit). -- RM 13:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)


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