Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WolterBot


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WolterBot
Operator: B. Wolterding (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Fulliautomatix

Programming Language(s): Java

Function Summary: Upload maintenance-related reports and listings to Wikipedia project space

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Runs at irregular intervals; major volume of edits expected once per month.

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

Function Details:

I provide maintenance-related reports, in particular listings of articles that have been flagged for cleanup of some kind, sorted by their assigned WikiProject. These listings and reports are generated from database dumps; this is outside the scope of the present request. However, once these reports have been generated, they need to be uploaded to Wikipedia project space; this task is the subject of the request.

The bot will upload these generated reports to designated subpages in project space, e.g. WikiProject Comics/Cleanup listing. It will overwrite any existing content there.

The bot will run at irregular intervals, typically no more than once a day, with only few edits in each run. Existing listings/reports will be updated only when a new database dump becomes available; that is once a month, approximately. At this point, a larger number of edits is expected (currently about 10, but this might increase to 100-500). Editing speed will be limited to 5 edits/minute.

Examples of maintenance listings:
 * WikiProject Notability/Listing by project
 * User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings

Examples of bot edits:

Discussion
What edit rate will the bot be using? Does this bot have any support from the WikiProjects? — E  ↗TCB 21:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Edit rate: max. 5 edits/minute, as said above. For feedback/requests by the WikiProjects, see User talk:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings. --B. Wolterding (talk) 21:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Generate three comprehensive lists and report back here when complete. — E  ↗TCB 04:16, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Will do. However, that might take until the next database dump is available (approximately end of June). --B. Wolterding (talk) 09:41, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No problems :) — E  ↗TCB 10:57, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Found some new subscribers; three edits done . --B. Wolterding (talk) 14:39, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks good, your bot is . Please keep the edit rate at 5EP/m, per above. Thanks :) — E  ↗TCB 06:52, 10 June 2008 (UTC)


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