Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EssjayBot III

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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] EssjayBot III

EssjayBot_III (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log)

With the success of EssjayBot II archiving project and project talk pages, I've gotten several requests for it to do user talk pages. I'd prefer not to mix bot functions, just for my own peace of mind, and I didn't include user talk pages in my initial request, so I'm making a new request for this function. I personally am fine with doing it, or fine with not doing it; I'm just trying to provide those functions the people desire. Essjay (Talk) 10:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Sure sure sure, trials approved, post some difs, etc...
How often will this script run, and how many pages will it deal with per interval? Having a bot archive hundreds of pages per interval could be a bit of a resource hog. This bot should definantley be flagged when approved. — xaosflux Talk 00:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
It'd run no more than once a day, and I'm generally very careful to make sure things run at times when other bots generally don't (for example, the archiving of ANI is done at 0:05 UTC, since most bots run on the hour). Since it's done by crontab entry, it can be done with whatever frequency; additionally, I can set them up load balanced if need be, putting three or four in one file, then three or four an hour later, etc. So far, I've had a handful of people ask; I have no idea how many Werdnabot was doing, but I really have no intention of getting into archiving the user talk pages of half of Wikipedia. Essjay (Talk) 03:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Are you stil proposing this bot? (Will be removed in 1 week if no reply) — xaosflux Talk 00:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Moved to expired, 15:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


I returned from my leave to find that there was a great discussion of this bot, including a lot of misinformation about EssjayBot II; my recollection was that III had been approved (indeed, I even offered it's services to Raul654). Could someone see to the processing of this, or let me know that it's not a go so I can discontinue it and put my time to better use? Essjay (Talk) 06:26, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Approved; the bot shall run with a flag. This is just the same as bot II running on user talk pages. No reason for there to be problems. Voice-of-All 08:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.