Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SMS Bot

SMS Bot

Operator: SMS ^Talk

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Function Summary: This bot will add WikiProject banners at talk pages of articles.

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

Edit rate requested: 5-6 edits per min

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

Function Details: SMSBot will tag Article talk pages with missing WikiProject Banners. It will run automatically using AWB. It will tag only those articles which are present in the particular Wikiproject's Category.i.e. that category list will be the opt-in list.

Discussion

Ok, seems straight forward enough. Will it respect the {{nobots}} tag? If yes, then I see no reason a BAGer can't do a trial run. If no, then is there a good reason not to respect nobots? MBisanz ^talk 22:05, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does it support the nested parameter ? Monobi (talk) 23:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry! I couldn't get what nested parameter? --SMS ^Talk 04:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AWB always respects nobots. — Werdna talk 00:17, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is this using the Kingbotk plugin, or something else to deal with placement of talk page templates? Gimmetrow 01:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Err, Werdna, on my version of AWB, under the Options menu, it says "ignore bot & nobots". MBisanz ^talk 02:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it will use User:Kingbotk/Plugin and will respect {{nobots}}, as this is by default active in AWB, if "Ignore {{bots}} and {{nobots}}" is not checked in the options menu. --SMS ^Talk 04:38, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]