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TFA Protector Bot 3

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Operator: Legoktm (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 01:55, Thursday, September 8, 2022 (UTC)

Function overview: Semi-protect TFAs

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Rust

Source code available: [1]

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 1 per day

Namespace(s): mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Adminbot (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Note: This has only been approved for a 30-day trial, at which point it would need further community consensus to keep running AIUI.

This is fully independent of the move protection the bot already applies
At 23:00 UTC, get the next day's TFA (following any redirect)
Get edit protection status:
- If protection is indefinite, do nothing
- If protection expires after the article is off TFA, do nothing
- If protection expires before the article is off TFA, extend the current protection until it is off TFA (keeps existing protection level)
- If there is no protection, apply semi-protection until it is off TFA

I ran a simulation of the next 30ish TFAs: here's an example of a page that has no edit protection:

INFO tfa_semi_prot: 55 Wall Street needs protection!
INFO tfa_semi_prot: Protection options: [["action","protect"],["title","55 Wall Street"],["protections","edit=autoconfirmed|move=sysop"],["expiry","2022-09-12T00:00:00Z|2022-09-12T00:00:00Z"],["reason","Upcoming TFA ([[WP:BOT|bot protection]])"]]

And here's an example of a page that has semi-protection, but it needs to be extended:

INFO tfa_semi_prot: A.C. Monza needs protection to be extended!
INFO tfa_semi_prot: Protection options: [["action","protect"],["title","A.C. Monza"],["protections","edit=autoconfirmed|move=sysop"],["expiry","2022-09-21T00:00:00Z|2022-09-21T00:00:00Z"],["reason","Upcoming TFA ([[WP:BOT|bot protection]])"]]

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