Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 1

Femto Bot 1

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Auto

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: No

Function overview: Move comments from my bot's talk pages to my talk page, and to their respective archives.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 1 per day (1 event per 3 days, affecting 3 pages) - based on about 100 comments per year to SB.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No

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

Function details:

1. Will remove the new section from bot's talk page and copy it to my talk page.
2. Will also place a copy in the bot's talk archive page (currently done manually)
3. Will at the same time clean out the HTML comments that are auto-inserted by the message button, and remove empty sections.
4. Will add a "Copied from XXX by Femto Bot (possibly the smallest bot in the world)" message to the section on my talk page.

• Note: this will not affect the stop functionality of SmackBot - see User:SmackBot/What the stop button does.