Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SunCreatorBot 2


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SunCreatorBot 2
Operator:

Time filed: 22:50, Thursday September 20, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Manual

Programming language(s): None

Source code available: None

Function overview: Creating lists with more than 25,000 items which requires AutoWikiBrowser/NoLimits plugin which in turn requires a bot or admin access level.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Previously AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. With the kind help of User talk:Ryan Vesey who emailed a file, but that is not sensible way to continue by asking others to do task that would be quicker done directly without hassling other editors.

Edit period(s): The bot won't be editing at all. It creates a list(described in AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks by GoingBatty) which I will save and use in my normal account.

Estimated number of pages affected: 0

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Not applicable

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: No edits.

Discussion

 * I'm sure the limit exists for a reason (presumably WP:PERFORMANCE or the like), do you have a plan in place to prevent taxing the system?  MBisanz  talk 02:16, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * If they use it only to load the list is not a big deal. I trust SunCreator. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:51, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

This can be done by querying the toolserver - see here. Here's the query for future reference/use: -- Chris 13:19, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Is Chris' solution sufficient or do you still need the bot flag.  MBisanz  talk 15:30, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I haven't been able to view the link until today, as toolserve was not available on previous attempts, it's also not manageable as I have no account there and found that useful tools expire. So I don't consider toolserve a solution for this request. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 15:57, 9 October 2012 (UTC)


 * for non-editing use and with the understanding that sysadmins may overrule this approval for performance reasons.  MBisanz  talk 16:57, 9 October 2012 (UTC)


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