Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Seedbot 2

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Seedbot

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: S (formerly Seed 2.0).

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised. Automatic where appropriate.

Programming Language(s): AWB.

Function Summary: General template maintenance, including substing and finding and replacing.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): as needed (most likely 5am-8am EST, nights and weekends).

Edit rate requested: 6 per minute.

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

Function Details:

I'll keep this brief: I just finished this task and, shockingly, found after doing the usual prerequisite legwork (making a suitable list, eliminating the usual suspects, like {{WikiProjectBanners}}, and doing the usual due dilligence work), that hitting CTRL+S eighty or so times wasn't all that exciting. That's why I'd like to request permission to do basic, uncontroversial maintenance stuff in auto mode when possible and appropriate. The idea is that I'll still have to be there to keep an eye on what the bot is doing but with a lot less clicking. Other than that, I intend to operate under the same rules: anything even remotely controversial I'll do under my regular account, anything possibly problematic will obviously be done in manual mode, log files will be kept (unless it's just half a dozen articles) and caution will be exercised as usual. Thank you. -- S ^up? 18:07, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. for CfD/TfD work, template substing, and generic maintenance. --ST47Talk 18:15, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

The first couple of edits were based on this request which looked interesting but turned out to be not all that practical (based on the latest dump and a sample size just shy of 5k articles, I got ~2.48% possible candidates of which a good percentage had already been fixed or deleted). The rest is just regular old bot work (template substing, CFD stuff). -- S ^up? 14:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I know it's a bit unusual to add a task to a BRFA that's already under consideration but since this is about as uncontroversial as it gets, I'd like to ask permission to have the bot fix double redirects as well (I'm mostly concerned with those created by Wikipedia:CFDW-related talk page moves which I have to fix manually at this time). --S ^up? 15:11, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} If a BAG member could take a quick look at this request, I'd appreciate it. Cheers S ^up? 20:34, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and for your reference, the template substing stuff is here. -- S ^up? 10:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

 Approved. --ST47Talk 13:18, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

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