Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SuggestBot 4


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SuggestBot 4
Operator:

Time filed: 17:14, Monday January 24, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming language(s): Perl, Python (pywikbot rewrite framework), MySQL, Bash shell scripts

Source code available: Currently not

Function overview: Automatically post article suggestions to users who have signed up using template or userbox

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: Currently ~100 each month, ~250 every two weeks, subject to change as people sign up or withdraw

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: Users sign up through User:SuggestBot/Getting Recommendations Regularly. We maintain a list of users by checking transclusions of the configuration template and userbox. For those users who are due to receive suggestions, we go through their list of contributions to find similar articles that are tagged as needing work, and post a list of suggestions either on their user talk page or a sub-page in their userspace.

Discussion
We're filing this BRFA because we now want to automate the process of handling our users who have signed up to receive suggestions regularly to ease the burden of having to do this manually. From what I have been able to find through searches the previous SuggestBot approvals have all been for manual or semi-automated tasks (see thread in WP talk:Bots/Archive 15 and the second SuggestBot BRFA). The underlying functionality of SuggestBot itself has not changed. Nettrom (talk) 17:14, 24 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Opt-in process, so I don't foresee any objections. (take longer if necessary) – xeno talk  16:39, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

In the time since the trial was approved we've signed up ~100 of the users previously listed on User:SuggestBot/Regulars (page is a redirect), and have some additional users sign up. As seen in this list of SuggestBot contributions it has been running automatically over the past week with good success. I have not seen any complaints. I plan to continue to sign up users over the coming week so we ramp up to where we were before the switch to templates, and also unify our template structure and ask for some protection of those to prevent disruptive edits. Let me know if there's anything. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 15:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Nice work. &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  21:57, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
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