Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MartinBotII 2

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] MartinBotII

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

Operator: Martinp23

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): C# w/Dotnetwiki framework

Function Summary:Deliver Wikiproject Indonesia Newsletter will appear here when written to member of the category [:Category:WikiProject_Indonesia_members], who aren't on the opt out list. As requested on WP:BOTREQ.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Weekly

Edit rate requested: 15 second throttle imposed between edits

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

Function Details: At 2200UTC on every Sunday, the bot will take the message from User:MartinBotII/WPIndonesiaMsg here and post it to the bottom of the talk pages of all users in Category:WikiProject_Indonesia_members, who haven't listed themselves on the opt out list (a link to which is provided in the edit summary). Template, Wikipedia and Category pages are excluded from the posting, as are all user pages in the category containing a "/" (to allow for transclusion on user pages).

[edit] Discussion

See Category:WikiProject_Indonesia_members/Test for those who the message was sent to when testing. Refdeskbot is listed on the optout, so wasn't spammed. I'm not, so I got the message [1] (this was just text I put into the code, instead of making the message page). The diff shows the sort of thing that will happenon each page, but the message page will, by then, have a meaningful message on it, with a level two heading and perhaps signed. Thanks Martinp23 16:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Bot trial run approved for the duration of one week. Voice-of-All 17:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Trial will take place on Sunday (coming). Martinp23 18:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

In the process of me looking for ways to reduce the number of requests I post here, can I ask - would it be possible for any other talk page spammings which I may get asked to do in future come under this task? Martinp23 18:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Trial complete and successful - [2] is pretty much what happened on every talk page of members listed here - not in the cat due to userbox issues with some users. The optout list has been tested above, prior to trials, and a strict edit throttle was imposed. Martinp23 09:24, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Approved. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 15:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

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