Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/APersonBot

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Operator: APerson (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 21:07, Saturday May 31, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic Manual

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: N/A

Function overview: Subst'ing the Teahouse invite templates

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: Around 30,000

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):  ? (AWB bot)

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: The bot will subst: the Teahouse invite templates: the main one, {{Wikipedia:Teahouse/Invitation}}, and the Articles for Creation edition, {{Wikipedia:Teahouse/AfC Invitation}}.

Discussion

Are there any restrictions in place as to where this bot will act? Namespaces? Subpages? ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 17:50, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Addshore, I just changed the "Automatic" mode to "Manual". This bot should definitely operate ONLY in user talk space, since that's the only place it should be used. I'll be checking to make sure that the page is in user talk space before I press "Save". If I see a usage where that's not the case, I'll visit the page outside of AWB and see what I should do. APerson (talk!) 18:16, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Now that it's manual, it's probably within the regular rules of AWB (using your normal/nonbot account). Just make sure you check every edit before you save). - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 19:22, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Jarry1250, I wanted a bot account for this because I really didn't want 30K extra edits. Furthermore, it doesn't take a lot of time to check the namespace and in the 10 or so edits I made before I decided to come here, I was averaging about 12 hits/second; I think that rate justifies a bot account with the bot flag. APerson (talk!) 12:07, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Fair enough. Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 16:43, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Jarry1250, would you mind listing the bot at the AWB checkpage so it can access AWB? Thanks! APerson (talk!) 19:56, 8 June 2014 (UTC) Requests should be at only one venue. APerson (talk!) 20:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 20:10, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Trial complete. APerson (talk!) 20:43, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

 Approved. on the following provisos: (1) could the edit summary be changed to "subst:'ing template" (2) could the edit summary please link to a discussion of why this is being done, e.g. in the bot's userspace (3) the obvious namespace restriction applies and (4) please be careful, people do get grumpy when it's their usertalk pages at stake! :) Best, - Jarry1250 ^{[Vacation needed]} 18:12, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

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