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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.

MercuryBot[edit]

Operator: Mercury

Automatic or Manually Assisted:

Programming Language(s): Python / Pywiki

Function Summary:Archive discussion and user talk pages.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One edit per talk page as * twice daily as needed


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

Function Details: Will look at a template for incoming links, and process options in the same technical manner as User:MiszaBot_III.

Discussion[edit]

  • Is it necessary? MiszaBot doesn't seem to have many problems with the load... Also, there are three MiszaBots for archiving, from the function summary it seems that you're mirroring all of them, am I correct? Snowolf How can I help? 14:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    It would not hurt anything to have some redundancy and load sharing. Regards, Mercury 14:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Just to clarify, it will use my template and may look at the existing template. Mercury 15:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Have you made this template yet? -- maelgwn - talk 15:16, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Your userpage could do with an update. Are you using Misza's code, or new code? -- maelgwn - talk 15:16, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Updated, and Misza's code. Mercury 15:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Clone of bot, Misza has no complaints, Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 16:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On crontab once an hour while the template has few customers. Mercury 13:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good :) Snowolf How can I help? 13:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note - Change to below, that it will not cron once an hour, but task will run 4-6 times daily, depending on load. Mercury 21:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What do we want a clone for? Miszabot III does the job fine.--Phoenix-wiki 13:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It harms nothing. Mercury 14:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
n.b. Redundancy is *always* good. Regards, Mercury 14:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
that and I think shadowbot3 will soon stop editing. βcommand 14:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Status on approval? Mercury at 05:59, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved; the bot shall run with a flag. Snowolf How can I help? 10:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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