Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ThundaBot


 * 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 delete vote.svg Denied

ThundaBot
Operator:

Time filed: 07:35, Friday August 31, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised.

Programming language(s): Python and PHP.

Source code available: Source code is not available at this time.

Function overview: Vandalism detection and reversion, broken redirects fixed,

Edit period(s): Hourly.

Estimated number of pages affected: To be honest, I'm not sure how to estimate that. I'd say approximately 300 edits per hour.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes.

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): The bot's page has a bot flag.

Function details: The bot would revert blatant vandalism, and fix broken links. For the vandalism side of things, I use a detection system similar to that of Pywikipediabot, although different. When testing this on a private wiki, the bot fixed 78% of broken links from typing errors, and 96% of the vandalism. With the amount of content on Wikipedia, this percentage should increase. I have not had a single false positive with the bot during testing, although I will provide a kill switch in case it is needed. The bot uses many routines to handle detection. If an article loses more than half of its content, it is flagged for vandalism. If an article is flagged for vandalism, then it reverts the article then notifies me that it has done so. I will then check said reversion to see if it was correct, if not undo it.

Discussion

 * This bot appears to have edited since this BRFA was filed. Bots may not edit outside their own or their operator's userspace unless approved or approved for trial. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:27, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * A number of anti-vandal bots already exist (example), what does this bot do that Cluebot (or any other bot) does not already accomplish? For this kind of task, a more detailed explanation should be given regarding what type of edit is regarded as vandalism. Your bot does not have the bot flag, the bot template is not the "bot flag", it is the user right. Finally, this request was misfiled, in the article namespace (I've moved it out of the mainspace to here), and the request itself is still malformed. Noom  talk stalk 10:38, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

You are not ready to be a bot operator. The English Wikipedia community expects bot operators to be familiar with our policies and guidelines and to be experienced in editing Wikipedia. Considering that your main account was created just a few weeks ago and has only 17 edits, only two of which are to articles (and the one content edit was minor and was reverted), you have not had time to demonstrate the necessary experience. And given the errors you made in filing this BRFA, you do not seem to have read/understood WP:Bot policy or to really understand how Wikipedia works at a technical level. If you really do want to run a bot, spend some time here as a normal editor, gaining experience and building content, and come back in several months. Anomie⚔ 15:19, 31 August 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.