Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rick Bot 3

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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] Rick Bot

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

Operator: Rick Block (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Shell/awk w/ pywikipedia

Function Summary: Maintain WP:WBFTN and associated by-year nomination lists such as Wikipedia:Featured topics nominated in 2008

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

Edit rate requested: Max would be less than 10 edits per day (more reads)

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

Function Details: Just like what is currently done (and recently approved) for WP:WBFLN. Involves:

  1. reading the previous and current monthly log files.
  2. reading an archived nomination page for each promoted topic and determining the nominator(s). This is done by determining the user who created the nomination page.
  3. adding any new nominations to the appropriate by-year nomination list.
  4. reading WP:FT and WP:FFT.
  5. updating all by-year nomination lists to indicate current featured (or not) status
  6. reading all (updated) by-year nomination lists and regenerating the table in WP:WBFTN

[edit] Discussion

Fine. Objections? — Werdna talk 12:07, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Mr.Z-man 23:12, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Given that the bot has already been performing a nearly identical task since the prior BRfA without a problem, and no objections have been raised, I think this can safely be Speedily Approved. :) krimpet✽ 23:24, 15 May 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.