Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RobinBot
Operator: koder
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic supervised during trial, automatic unsupervised afterwards. Can be manually told which pages to analyze, as well.
Programming Language(s): php, C.
Function Summary: Monitors RC's XML feed for users either unintentionally or intentionally adding Affiliate marketing links and removes the affiliate portion of the link. For now, will only check for Amazon Associates links. Optionally, if the Wikimedia Foundation would like, it can have me replace the affiliate portion with Wikimedia's own affiliate tags in order to create pseudo-donations. Bot will traverse old dumps to check for affiliate tags, add them to its queue, and perform the edit removals during non-peak hours.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous.
Edit rate requested: Most likely less than 1 edit per minute for RC patrol (i.e. whenever someone adds affiliate links to a page), and during non-peak hours when it is playing catch-up with the old database dumps, at most 5 per minute (or whatever you guys want, obviously). The latter will only be implemented on approval in order to avoid tons of RC entries until it has its bot flag.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N):N
Function Details:n/a
Discussion
- Just FYI: I specifically chopped down the summary due to the "SHORT" part. A slightly more verbose summary is on its talk page. Cheers. =) --koder 07:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
- Looks alright to me... Just depends what the BAG says now. E talk 08:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)