Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rick Bot 2

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: Rick Block (talk) 14:40, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Shell/awk w/ pywikipedia

Function Summary: Maintain Wikipedia:WBFLN and associated by-year lists such as Wikipedia:Featured lists nominated in 2008

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

Edit rate requested: Max would be less than 10 edits per day (more reads)

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

Function Details: Just like what is currently done for Wikipedia:WBFAN, but fully automated rather than manually assisted. Involves:

1. reading the previous and current monthly log files
2. reading an archived nomination page for each promoted list and determining the nominator(s). This is currently done by looking for the first link to a user page in the contents of the nomination page. An alternate approach would be to consider the user who created the nomination page the nominator (for a fully automated tool, I think this would probably be better)
3. adding any new nominations to the appropriate by-year list
4. reading Wikipedia:FL and Wikipedia:FFL
5. updating all by-year lists to indicate current featured (or not) status
6. reading all (updated) by-year lists and regenerating the table in Wikipedia:WBFAN

Discussion

Sounds fine. — Werdna talk 06:06, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. Approved for trial (5 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. SQL^{Query me!} 12:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Checking through recent contribs it's been running fine as far as I could tell, might as well just close this to make it all official like. Q ^{T C} 06:42, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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