Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RefDeskBot

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RefDeskBot

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

Operator: Martinp23

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic

Programming Language(s):C#, using dotnetwikibot framework

Function Summary:Will perform archival tasks on the WP:RD (reference desks) (the number is soon to grow to 16 (I hear), so a bot is needed to do the task quickly).

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

Edit rate requested: Around one edit per 10 secs (at a guesstimate - depends on network speed)

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

Function Details:As requested at WP:BOTREQ, the full details of with the bot does can be found at: User:Freshgavin/Sandbox/Reference_desk_bot_request - this perfectly describes what happens (and I built the bot around it).

See the following diffs for examples:

• Setting up a new monthly desk (would only happen on the third day of the month (done here for testing)
• Creating a new archive page, for transclusion on main desk
• Transcludung old questions to, and deleteing the oldest transclusion on the main desk
• Creating a new archive page, for transclusion on main desk
• Adding question details to the montly archival page

Note: these edits were done in a sandbox area, on only one desk. When approved, and when the ref desk is re-vamped (or before - depends), the bot will edit all of the existing desks in turn

Discussion

I will run this bot, with AMABot (talk · contribs) and MartinBot (talk · contribs) (A TB2 Clone). Martinp23 18:10, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Bot trial run approved for the duration of one week. Keep the edit rate at 3/min or in short 15 edit streaks tops until this gets approved and flagged.Voice-of-All 23:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Could I get approval for this bot to do the same as it will do on the RefDesks on the helpdesk (pending their approval?) Thanks Martinp23 20:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Trial complete - see [1], [2] and [3]

Everthing went as expected here - after a few bugs were fixed/new features added in the firstdays of the trial. The last three archive days have been good. Martinp23 18:17, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Approved.

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