Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Jeremybot

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.

Jeremybot

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Operator: jeremyb (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: automatic (each run manually started)

Programming Language(s): pywikipedia

Function Summary: Talk Page message delivery

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one time run(s) (depending on approval scope)

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

Function Details: Talk page message delivery. Will take editsummary, message, and a list of different types of sources for user lists including templates to check for transclusion by user pages, pages to check for links to user pages, and categories to check for user page members. Based in part on bjweeks (talk · contribs) "GPL 3 or later" code. Planning to release the code after some cleanup.

Discussion

 Note: there are 2 users named "Jeremy" in the discussion below, Jeremyb is the bot master and Jeremy (User:Jerem43) is the person who made the BOTREQ. Jeremyb (talk) 06:35, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I know there are other bots approved generally for message delivery but if this scope is too broad I can limit it. Almost ready for trial and have a Wikipedia:BOTREQ to run this on: Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 22#Community forum for WP:FOOD. --Jeremyb (talk) 16:58, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

• It looks to me like these people haven't explicitly signed up to receive this newsletter -- it's just assumed that they want it since they're a part of one of the projects. Would it be better to ask them to list their names if they want to receive the newsletter? – Quadell ^(talk) 18:52, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

My understanding is that this BOTREQ is a request for a one time only delivery in which case asking people to sign up would be rather pointless. (once they've signed up they already know about what we're going to tell them. no need to tell them again) Will double check with the user that submitted the request. Jeremyb (talk) 06:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, that's fine. About how many people would get this message? – Quadell ^(talk) 12:52, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

About 90-100 across the twelve projects and task forces. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 16:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

So, can this have a trial? I am working on getting a better estimate of how many deliveries would be made but I was expecting a trial could be approved before that was ready. Anyway, I should have numbers in a couple hours. I'll be without network access for about the next hour. Jeremyb (talk) 01:20, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

It is a one time message notifying participants of a new inter-WikiProject message board and standards drive for Food and Drink related projects and task forces. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 06:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I think the unsolicited nature of the messages needs discussion but I don't have feelings either way. It might be good to spam this to the VP. BJ^Talk 09:41, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

• Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 03:14, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} What's the status on this? Mr.Z-man 03:07, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Request Expired. Mr.Z-man 21:15, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.