Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Igor

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 Request Expired.

Igor

Operator: See below

Developer: ClockworkSoul (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Assisted editing

Programming Language(s): Java

Function Summary: Quality and importance assignment to wikiproject articles.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): On demand by user

Edit rate requested: 1 edit per 5 seconds (in occasional batches ranging from a single update to a several hundred per batch)

Function Details: Not a bot, but an assisted editing application with the potential to make large numbers of batch changes. Because these batches have the potential to be quite large, I decided to be safe and request approval before I make this tool available to the general public. Igor is a standalone application that will eventually have many functions in accordance with its design as a WMT (Wikiproject Management Tool). The only function that is currently operational, though not yet available to the general public, is the article management, which allows users to see all articles that have been tagged as being associated with a wikiproject and individually modify their "class" and/or "importance" attribute with respect to that project. The application requires that its user be logged in, and does not allow anonymous editing.

Discussion

This should have bot in the name to identify it. β^_command 20:39, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

It's not a bot, but a standalone app with the potential to make numerous edits. Per the assisted editing guidelines, I'm running it by the group to be sure of its acceptability. – ClockworkSoul 20:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I would suggest creating a separate account, and only use the tool on that. β^_command 20:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

My plan is to make the tool openly available. Creating a single account would be inappropriate for the tool's function. – ClockworkSoul 20:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I do not believe you understand the bot approval process. We approve YOU to use an account and a certain program to make edits, we do not need to approve the program. You may use the program on your own account as long as it is manually assisted and edits are reasonably slow (see Wikipedia:BOT for details). You may do this without our permission. You may also want to make a separate user account for your own purposes, and come here with that account so we can give it a bot flag. However you are not obligated to do so unless your program is very fast or edits automatically (again, Wikipedia:BOT). --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 22:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You're right, I didn't. Many thanks! – ClockworkSoul 22:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Request Expired. Marking request as expired as it was either never transcluded to Wikipedia:BRFA or has had no attention for some time. Richard⁰⁶¹² 12:20, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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