Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/UcuchaBot 3


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UcuchaBot 3
Operator:

Time filed: 12:54, Wednesday August 31, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: Available on request (once I've written it)

Function overview: Move the "Older nominations" marker on WP:FAC daily. In addition, do some minor clean-up of FAC (replace underscores with spaces, get rid of some spaces), since the underscores tend to confuse User:Gimmebot.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): user talk:SandyGeorgia

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Function details: I'll keep a database of all current FACs with their date of transclusion, and place the marker above the first FAC that is >11 (or so, don't know what is preferred) 14 days old.

Discussion
Not really controversial, only one watched page affected. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:56, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks; I'll start it up as soon as I finish coding. Ucucha (talk) 23:22, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * It's now set up and should do its first edit tonight at 8. Ucucha (talk) 20:58, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, that's a bit ambiguous. :) Wiki is on UTC time, your message was at 20:58. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 21:04, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I meant that it was going to edit at 8 ET, midnight UTC. My bad. Ucucha (talk) 21:07, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * It just made its first edit ; it moved the marker down instead of up because the algorithm used is a little different than what Sandy previously did. Of course, I can easily change the number of days when a nom becomes "Older". I also fixed the code to leave a more informative edit summary, and fixed the bug in the code for WP:Bots/Requests for approval/UcuchaBot that caused the bot to bold the wrong article today. Ucucha (talk) 00:11, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

This task has been running for a week now, and seems to be doing fine. It does the occasional whitespace cleanup and moves the marker as necessary. Ucucha (talk) 00:28, 11 September 2011 (UTC) (Changed template 00:09, 15 September 2011 (UTC))

Works as advertised. Anomie⚔ 02:50, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
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