Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ChrisSalij Bot

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Approved.

ChrisSalij Bot edit

Operator: ChrisSalij (talk · contribs)

Supervised Does not make changes

Programming language(s): Ruby

Source code available: Not Available yet

Function overview: This bot will be used in order to gather data for a summer research internship. (Full details in Function Details)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One Time Run

Estimated number of pages affected: No pages will be changed

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details: This bot is a data gathering bot. It's task will be simple, to get the last 5000 revisions of a small number of articles (10-100). This information is then stored locally so it can be processed. It is a one-time task (May be repeated twice for testing). It will make no edits or changes to wikipedia.

Discussion edit

Do you mind if we block the bot so it can't edit but can still gather data? Also, can we deflag automatically in six months? MBisanz ^talk 02:59, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds fine to me. I defiantly won't be editing pages as it's not part of this project, so it wouldn't make sense to let it edit. ChrisSalij (talk) 07:34, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't foresee needing the bot in 6 months so automatically deflagging it is okay. If I am still using it at that time can I appeal to reinstate it? ChrisSalij (talk) 07:34, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. FinalRapture - † ☪ 12:56, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well thats fine by me then :)ChrisSalij (talk) 13:18, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedily Approved. Per above. MBisanz ^talk 03:48, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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