Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SineBot

SineBot

Operator: slakr

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): PHP5 (cli).

Function Summary: Fill-in for HagermanBot, which has been missing in action.

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

Edit rate requested: 5 or so edits per minute during peak times, most likely much less during non-peak times.

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

Function Details:

I'll try to avoid transcluding the deja-vu details from User:SineBot, but it functionally aims to replicate HagermanBot, including exclusion lists and everything. It is also almost completely written/tested, with only two exceptions: first, I need to test out submitting the actual edit form using a sandbox, and second, I need to test out maintenance of the opt-out exclusion lists, since that also requires live edits. Ideally, I would like to have the bot post would-be edit summaries to User:SineBot/Log for a few days so that others can notice any potential bugs/problems that I might miss and bring them to my attention. Those edits would be queued to only occur, at max, every minute (or longer, if you would like).

I'm not sure what to do about the two categories HagermanBot previously monitored. I was originally planning on creating identical categories for "SineBot" instead of "HagermanBot." However, I planned for this, so I can easily point the bot to any category/categories that I/others want it to monitor, so it can just as easily monitor the HagermanBot categories as well as its own, if that behavior is so desired.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, please do not hesitate to ask.