Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SXT-404Bot

SXT-404Bot

Operator: SXT40

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised, mostly.

Programming Language(s): pywikipedia

Function Summary: To scan for, and notify on 404 links. Bot will only edit talk pages.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

Edit rate requested: 2 edits per min

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

Function Details: Literally, vanilla from the pywikipedia package. Commandline:

screen python weblinkchecker.py -lang:en -family:wikipedia -log -pt 30 -v -talk

It seems like a useful function, I'm learning python, and, will eventually be making my own. Everyone's gotta start somewhere! --SXT40 09:31, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

If you haven't already, you may wish to look at this bot request. --S ^up? 12:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh, I see... valid concerns, too... Hmm. Do I need bot flags, to test and experiment, on a specific sub-page of my own userspace? (I.e. User:SXT40/BotTest123) --SXT40 19:35, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need a bot flag (those are only set for approved bots) but, technically, you need the go-ahead for running a bot even in your own user space (all unapproved bots are subject to blocking per the blocking policy). As long as you're keeping your bots edit rate under 2 edits per minute and only editing a test page in your own user space, you should be fine but, technically, the above requirement still applies. -- S ^up? 22:42, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]