Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SpillingBot

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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] SpillingBot

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

Operator: Jóna Þórunn (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Mostly automatic, but also manually e.g. when working with interwiki for categories

Programming Language(s):Pywikipedia

Function Summary: Adding interwiki, starting from is.wikipedia

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

Edit rate requested: 1 edit per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Has a botflag on is:, no:, nn:, sv:, da:.

Function Details: The bot adds interwiki and starts from is.wikipedia. I'm trying to clear the list of categories that don't have any iw and the easiest way to do so is to have a botflag on en.wiki. The list now persist of ~3 500 categories that need to be sorted out. When this is done the bot will go in to automatic mode and add interwiki in namespace 0.

[edit] Discussion

The edit rate is quite low. I don't think there is a need for a bot flag. Chenzw (talk · contribs) 11:28, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
How often do you update interwiki.py? -- maelgwn - talk 12:20, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I tend to forget to update, but do so atleast once a week. Jóna Þórunn (talk) 15:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
You seem to know what you are doing. Feel free to use a higher edit rate. Often, interwiki bots are very uncontroversial, so, Approved for trial (50 edits).. Let us know, when you are done, please :) SQL ^{Query me!} 13:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. :) Jóna Þórunn (talk) 15:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Done. Jóna Þórunn (talk) 00:05, 11 April 2008 (UTC)