Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Snowbot


 * 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.

Snowbot
Operator: Snowolf

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): pywikipedia and AWB

Function Summary: Replacing or deleting categories for CFD and UCFD; replacing or removing stubs for SFD; WikiProject tagging; Templates subst:'ing

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Running when it's needed, by manual "order" of the operator. I mean I have to manually type in parameters and start it works, I'll do it when I'm only and there is work to do for CFD, UCFD, SFD or if somebody request a WikiProject tagging. Running for template subst:'ing many times a day, as there are many templates needing to be substituted.

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute

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

Function Details: Replacing or deleting categories for CFD and UCFD; replacing or removing stubs for SFD; WikiProject tagging; Templates subst:'ing

Discussion
Pretty standard operations, approved for trial. Limit your edits to 2/3 per min, and limit your run to 200 edits. Report back here when trialing is done. When removing the category, try to leave a link to THE CFD in the edit summary, if renaming a category try to leave a link to everything, e.g. (Category:Old Cat-->Category:New Cat per CFD/SubPage); it makes it a lot easier on someone checking up on it later. —  xaosflux  Talk 15:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * All right. Trial started. Happy Editing by  Snowolf (talk)CONCOI on  17:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * First category replace done, however I've done two errors in the edit summary, as you can see here: I've forgot to add  to both of the two categories and I haven't checked that the link to the CFD discussion was cutted down due to character limitation (I tried to point at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_8). The next run ther won't be errors, I promise. Happy Editing by  Snowolf (talk)CONCOI on  17:28, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Attention. I've changed some thing in the request, so I'll wait for reapproval --> I wish to be able to use pywikipedia framework. Happy Editing by  Snowolf (talk)CONCOI on  18:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Attention (2). I've changed for the second (and last, I promise ;-) ) the approval request: Edit rate needed changed to 5; requested permission to Templates subst:'ing. Happy Editing by  Snowolf (talk)CONCOI on  01:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem. Feel free to continue with the trial, and to trial the template substitution.  I would make the edits summaries for CFD changes as follows though:
 * — M ETS 501 (talk) 01:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * — M ETS 501 (talk) 01:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

170 edit so far. Tomorrow, if needed, I'll run the remainings. I've tried template removal (with AWB), category replace (with AWB), category remove (with pywikipedia). Is enough or do I need to test it more? Thanks and Happy Editing by  Snowolf (talk)CONCOI on  03:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Trial run ended with 200 edits (the 2 more were manual edits on bot's user and talk page). Happy Editing by  Snowolf (talk)CONCOI on  10:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

. Stepping in here by request; I don't see anything in the trial that raises any concerns, I'm granting approval and setting the flag. Essjay  ( Talk )  12:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


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