Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot 21


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SoxBot 21
Operator: X!

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: Not available yet, will release once I make sure it is safe

Function overview: Create new page for Portal:Current events daily

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily, 15 minutes before midnight UTC

Estimated number of pages affected: 1 per day

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Not needed

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

Function details: This bot will create a subpage of Portal:Current events every day before midnight, as to ensure that the correct data is shown when the new day turns around. It will create this content in [[ Portal:Current events/ date('Y F j', strtotime("+1 day")) ]] :


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It will make sure that the page does not already exist before it creates it.

Discussion
Sounds boring. Bot appropriate, repeated task at a specific time is good use of bot, imo. Competent coder, responsive to community input. Yawn. -- IP69.226.103.13 |  Talk about me.  07:37, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

 MBisanz  talk 00:55, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * [4 done, will be 5 in about 19 hours ([[User:X!| X! ]] · talk )  · @255  · 05:06, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

 MBisanz  talk 22:55, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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