Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TPBot 3
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Operator: TParis (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 17:33, Friday, May 19, 2017 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: https://github.com/TParis/Wiki-Bots/blob/master/featured_articles_by_length.py
Function overview: Uses Petscan to update Wikipedia:Featured_articles/By_length
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot_requests#FA_by_length_bot. Replaces User:BernsteinBot which quit operating when toolserver went down.
Edit period(s): Once per day
Estimated number of pages affected: 1
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No - only edits a single page. Can be turned off by user page if someone doesn't want it to run on that page
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: Pretty straight forward. Pulls a list from Petscan in json format, rewrites it in Wikicode, posts it to the page.
Discussion edit
- Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Post results when done. — xaosflux Talk 18:00, 19 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Approved for extended trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. It completed over the 30 edit trial for sure - over 200 edits; good to hear you have identified the problem. Please run for a week with the corrected settings and then post back. — xaosflux Talk 14:31, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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