Wikipedia talk:Bot Approvals Group

= Requests for BAG membership =

Requests to join the Bot Approvals Group are currently made here, although other methods have been proposed. Users wishing to join BAG, or to nominate another user to become a member, should start a new nomination page via the form below (replacing "UserName" with the nominee's) and transclude the discussion in a section below. Please note that notification to WP:AN, WP:VPM, WT:BOTPOL, and WP:BON is required. After a suitable length of time (usually one week unless the nomination has not received a reasonable level of support), the discussion will be closed by a bureaucrat.

= Other discussion =

Has an editor ever applied per WP:MEATBOT or WP:MASSCREATE
I am wondering if an editor was ever encouraged to apply per the MEATBOT or MASSCREATE policy. As far as I know I believe not, but maybe I am wrong.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 16:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Applied for (or to) what? Primefac (talk) 17:07, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * WP:MEATBOT includes:
 * Editors who choose to use semi-automated tools to assist their editing should be aware that processes which operate at higher speeds, with a higher volume of edits, or with less human involvement are more likely to be treated as bots. If there is any doubt, you should make a bot approval request.
 * WP:MASSCREATE begins with:
 * Any large-scale automated or semi-automated content page creation task must be approved at Bots/Requests for approval..
 * It ends with:
 * Note that while the WP:MEATBOT-like creation of non-content pages (such as redirects from systematic names, or maintenance categories) is not required to go through a formal BRFA by default, WP:MEATBOT still applies
 * WP:BOTUSE ends with
 * Note that high-speed semi-automated editing may effectively be considered bots in some cases (see WP:MEATBOT), even if performed by a human editor. If in doubt, check
 * So has any editor applied for permission per those policies? Paradise Chronicle (talk) 18:55, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Probably. I'd look through Category:Wikipedia bot requests for approval (or search it) to see if anything fits that bill. Primefac (talk) 19:25, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. If have searched the archive and there were no requests based on those three policies. One was declined over MASSCREATE concerns and MEATBOT was mentioned a few times, but not in the requests. BOTUSE I didn't find at all. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 02:50, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't remember a time where it got to a BRFA, or at least a successful BRFA. I can certainly recall plenty coming over to WP:BOTN and ask how they would go about it (like Bot_requests/Archive_79 from a user under a page creation ban), and invariably they were asked 'do you have consensus for this?', and pointed to WikiProjects or WP:VPT. And there's certainly blocks that have been issues over it. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I recall there have been a few requests for doing semi-automated edits. And there was at least one thread on WP:BOTN where someone was asking about creations but wound up not going to BRFA. Anomie⚔ 23:37, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Bots without wikidata account might disconnect interwiki links after (mass) moving articles to a different name
Hello, if a bot does not have a wikidata account it might disconnect all the interwiki links (i.e. wikidata item sitelink) if it is (mass) moving articles to a different name. For details please see:

M2k~dewiki (talk) 12:30, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143486
 * Bots/Noticeboard
 * Bots/Noticeboard
 * d:Wikidata:Project_chat
 * d:Wikidata:Administrators%27_noticeboard
 * Bot_requests

How do I turn my python script into a wiki bot
Hello, a pleasure to meet you all; I have this python script: https://github.com/claeslindhardt/CellFamilyTree which automatically updates the list in List of distinct cell types in the adult human body, how would I go about turning it into a wikibot, so that the list is automatically updated every 6 months without me running it? and is there any changes/updates I should do to my code before I upload it is as a bot? Claes Lindhardt (talk) 16:15, 1 May 2024 (UTC)