Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SteveBot 4


 * 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.

SteveBot
Operator: Steve Crossin Talk/Help us mediate!

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Mainly automatic, supervised.

Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia, AWB

Function Overview: All tasks as listed in my first and second bot request, as well as the following new tasks:
 * Template substitution - using subst.py. Will substituite all templates listed here.

Edit period(s):Whenever I run the tasks

Already has a bot flag (Y/N)''':No, was revoked when I was banned.

'''Function Details: See this link for a list of tasks my bot used to do. See above for a summary of what my new tasks will do.'''

Discussion
Just noting this is mainly asking for re-approval of my bot, however with some new tasks added. Steve Crossin Talk/Help us mediate! 22:58, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * It looks like this would work in conjunction with your second task (cleaning up articles) rather than your first (delivering notices on user talk page). I suppose for bullet #2, above, you'd need a trial now and then a trial a week from now, to see if the links were still dead. Is that right? And how will you be storing the fact that a link was dead last time? – Quadell (talk) 01:44, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, it saves a list of dead links the first time it runs the check in the deadlinks subdirectory, the second time it runs, if any of those links are still dead, it puts it into a text file. However, it can make a note of it on the article's talk page. (I'm also seeking approval to re-commence the first and second tasks that were approved last year.) Steve Crossin Talk/Help us mediate! 01:50, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

1, 3 and 4 - EACH. For task 2, per Quadell above (time needed to "check") — Ree  dy  09:10, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

I appreciate the enthusiasm, but in general a dose of chill pills seems needed here. I'd much rather take a bit of extra time to make sure there are no bugs and that these tasks are all appropriate, etc. rather than racing through the approval process. To all: please slow down a bit. --MZMcBride (talk) 13:39, 7 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The tasks involved -- fixing double redirects and such -- are pretty standard and well-tested pywikipedia functions. It's just a trial of twenty edits each. I don't think the BAGger was being over-hasty here. – Quadell (talk) 18:50, 7 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Nah, it's mostly not a big deal. I just saw quite a bit of badgering to move this request forward in scrollback on IRC and it seemed excessive. We're not in a race. ;-) --MZMcBride (talk) 18:57, 7 May 2009 (UTC)


 * - Task 4 (Template substitution) is complete, see edits. There are currently no double redirects to fix. Steve Crossin Talk/Help us mediate! 00:38, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * for subtitution, and for double redirects. X  clamation point  02:55, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Old tasks
Both (1 and 2) (re-)approved, and noted as such on the request pages. — Ree dy  08:50, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Interwiki standardization
Personally, I think this is something that generally gets done anyways when interwiki bots add or update interwiki links. AWB and other modules do this when performing other tasks. However, I don't think bots should edit pages just to do this. At WP:CHECKWIKI, there are several reports identifying articles where interwikis float around in the text. I think in these cases, it might be warranted to standardize the links, ideally while doing other cleanup. If the links above don't lead to specific sections, please use the version from the daily update (sections are removed once they are done).
 * WikiProject Check Wikipedia
 * WikiProject Check Wikipedia
 * WikiProject Check Wikipedia

BTW there are few other reports of the WikiProject that are fun to do with AWB or pywikipediabot. -- User:Docu


 * Let us know when you've finished the trial for double redirects, and feel free to include interwiki standardization in the bot's tasks if you want to. – Quadell (talk) 00:13, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

D – Quadell (talk) 14:52, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Withdrawing double redirects trial as it's obviously not needed, discarding interwiki task. As the subst.py task has been approved, this can be closed as approved for that task only, I assume. Steve Crossin Talk/Help us mediate! 04:19, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

As described above. – Quadell (talk) 19:13, 28 May 2009 (UTC)


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