Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MelonBot 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] MelonBot

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Operator: Happy‑melon

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic supervised

Programming Language(s): Python using Pywikipedia

Function Summary: Maintenance of The League of Copyeditors Requests page

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): From time to time (~fortnightly)

Edit rate requested: 20 per Run

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

Function Details: See User:MelonBot/LOCE

[edit] Discussion

Note that the number of edits requested above assumes that archiving will also be implemented - currently, only one edit is made per run. Happy‑melon 11:47, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

So this is going to edit once per fortnight? How about you find 5 or so examples of pages needing maintenance to start with? -- maelgwn - talk 12:20, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
OK, guilt-trip time. I already ran it. Those are the errors that have built up since the project moved to the new requests system on November 3rd. I was prompted to write this bot after doing all that by hand, only to lose the edit in a database lock - not fun, and not something I ever want to do again! All the changes I've checked are correct, and I've fixed the bug with "title=Armenian Revolutionary Federation" →titleNArmenian Revolutionary Federation". Happy‑melon 12:43, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
That looks ok but we need to see more edits, in whatever way is possible or this might need a very long trial. Make a suggestiong and we can give you trial approval ... -- maelgwn - talk 12:53, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
You 2nd edit had Józef Piłsudski wrong, is should be FAC not GA (I assume because it is both). How about twice daily edits for say a week? -- maelgwn - talk 13:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Józef Piłsudski has been giving me trouble since forever - the wierd barred "ł" is not a unicode character so it's been giving me no end of errors. It is quite good to have such a nasty title in there though for debugging purposes. To be honest twice-daily edits won't be very useful to you - the rate of change is so low that most of those edits will be null or single-change. I've run it again, demonstrating that the Armenia bug is fixed; it still screws up Jozef for some reason I'll look into. It might, as you say, have to be a very long trial - one edit a week or so should give enough change to prove a reasonable test. Tick... tock... tick... :D Happy‑melon 13:10, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

OK, if that is what you want. Approved for a very long Approved for trial (10 edits). (expected to take 10 weeks) -- maelgwn - talk 23:51, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

OK thanks. See you in March :D Happy‑melon 11:17, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Is that enough or do you want three more? Happy‑melon 12:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I spotted the mistake in no 7 quickly, presumably you've fixed that in the code? —Reedy Boy 11:47, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes that was the very first run (they're in reverse chronological order). Happy‑melon 12:21, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Approved. -- Cobi(t|c|b) 09:53, 1 March 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.