Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Thehelpfulbot 11


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved

Thehelpfulbot 11
Operator:

Time filed: 00:10, Monday March 12, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic (supervised)

Programming language(s): AWB or Pywikipedia (newsletter.py)

Source code available: AWB / Pywikipedia (newsletter.py)

Function overview: An BRFA to request approval to send newsletters or other talk page messages to the User talk: and Talk: when requested by users, or WikiProjects. This was approved at Bots/Requests for approval/Thehelpfulbot 2 for the WikiCup newsletter and Bots/Requests for approval/Thehelpfulbot 8 (but this could be deemed a little too vague).

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): When required

Estimated number of pages affected: Dependent upon task

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):  Y

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

Function details: This is BRFA to be able to deliver generic newsletters or other message in both the Talk: and User talk: namespaces - I have 2 previous BRFAs but their vagueness is open to interpretation so I'd like to make sure that the request that I plan to fulfill at Bot_requests and future requests are fully approved. As the request would like messages to be delivered to all users on WikiProject India/Members, this accounts to 754 user talk pages. Thanks, The  Helpful  One  00:10, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
for one run. Fairly routine and operator has prior experience.  MBisanz  talk 00:18, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * There was a minor issue with the bot putting a timestamp twice which I noticed and fixed, but this was a result of the template that I created, User:Thehelpfulone/TagAndAssess to substitute, not the bot script and shouldn't affect any talk page archiving bots. Thanks, The  Helpful  One  01:48, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

 MBisanz  talk 21:51, 12 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.