Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MBisanzBot

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] MBisanzBot

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Operator: MBisanz ^talk

Operations:Automatic & Supervised

Programming Language(s):AWB and Python

Function Summary:Bot will subst templates that do not need updating via transclusion and do not need to be tracked via backlinks.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):When I'm around

Edit rate requested: Maxlag 5 and/or 6 edits per minute

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

Function Details:This bot will subst templates such as the Welcome templates which have incorrectly been added to pages without substing. It will run off of the list of pages to which the template is transcluded. It will run in AWB when I am around. Unique edit summaries will be used and I will maintain a log of which templates the bot has worked on. I've already tested it on my account in semi-auto mode, as displayed in this list.

[edit] Discussion

Could you please list the templates that you plan to run the bot on? --Chris 03:20, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Currently I am doing these:

• {{welcome7}}
• {{welcomeanon}}
• {{welcome4}}

if approved, I would probably include all the welcome templates over time. I would like to do other less visible notification templates I happen across, but if you'd like a BRFA for such further expansion, I'm open to that. MBisanz ^talk 03:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

AWB can automatically substitute virtualy every template that needs to be substituted, so I really see no point in starting with three templates and then filing a separate request for more. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 05:48, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, in that case I'll keep my original request to run it on any templates I run across that should be substed and aren't, starting with the ones listed. MBisanz ^talk 05:52, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 07:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Trial completed, results at Special:Contributions/MBisanzBot. MBisanz ^talk 08:28, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Approved. (For substing with AWB only). MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 08:31, 19 April 2008 (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.