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[edit] Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 04:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] u looks funny

LOL!!!!!!

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Good job on your contributions Mathbot; I hope you get artificial intelligence when it's invented. -Amarkov moo! 03:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] filling in redlinks

I certainly hope this edit is not typical of Mathbot's filling in of redlinks in the math section. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Good bot, bad owner. You are right, I misread that one (hopefully it is an exception). Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:31, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2008 January 19

The mathbot has just counted the open discussions in this log down to zero[1], but that isn't correct. --Tikiwont (talk) 10:04, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfA stats

The bot posted the wrong users stats to Coppertwig's RfA here and here, thought you ought to know. Adam McCormick (talk) 01:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

This fixed it. The bot did not expect "User11" there. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Strange issue. Thanks for the quick response. Adam McCormick (talk) 03:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion.

I see Mathbot compiles the tables of article status at Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics.

Right now it links to articles according to either quality or importance. Could it be modified to link to a specific quality and importance? For example, if I'm interested in improved stubs of high importance, I can either click on High (35 of 366 are of stub-class) or on stubs (35 of 3787 are high importance). Or if I want to assess the quality of low-importance articles, I'd have to go through at best 488 low-importance article rather than 14.

I can explain more if that was not clear. Thank you.Headbomb (ταλκ · κοντριβς) 07:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I think you are referring to User:WP 1.0 bot rather than mathbot. The feature you request is not supported. I am quite pressed for time recently, and can't implement it, I am also not sure how crucial it is. If you wish, you can try requesting this feature at WT:1.0/I and see if somebody would be willing to implement it. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Another counting issue at RFA

Hey Oleg, we have another RFA that tripped Mathbot up. The edit count was posted to the talk page of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Arienh4 here, but appears entirely blank. Wannabe Kate returns results here, so it doesn't look like a mis-spelled username. Thought I'd give you a heads up. Thanks! UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 19:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I'll look into this quite soon. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:42, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
No problem, nor urgency; thanks for having a look. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 13:02, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
w3m was missing on the wp:toolserver. Replacing that with the lynx web browser fixed the issue. Thanks for pointing this out! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 14:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)