Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot523 2

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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.

[edit] Bot523

tasks • contribs • count • sul • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • flag bot

Operator: ais523

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic for substitution, manually assisted for log output

Programming Language(s): JavaScript

Function Summary: Substituting unsubstituted closeboxes it comes across on AfDs, and posting log output to my userspace

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): At most once a day (although I generally run it more like once a week), and only when I'm online

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per minute

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

Function Details:

At the moment, my bot Bot523 can't deal with non-substed closeboxes on AfDs (it just ignores them). As substituting is the norm, I'm applying for permission for Bot523 to substitute AfD closeboxes when it comes across them as part of its normal duties (decategorising closed AfDs); this means that the bot would make edits I currently make by hand after running the bot. I'd also like to use the bot account to post its log output to my userspace (which I also currently do using my own account); I run some scripts on the output by hand to sort it and wikify it, so it's a manually-attended task. The bot uses a 5-second maxlag setting (which is why recently it's been decategorising pages out of alphabetical order, as it runs pages in batches and leaves maxlag-capped pages until the end of the batch rather than retrying them immediately). --ais523 15:39, 26 May 2007 (U T C)