Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 42

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AnomieBOT 42

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Operator: Anomie⚔

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/ITNCArchiver.pm

Function overview: Archiving discussions at WP:ITN/C

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:BOTREQ#Archiving on WP:ITN/C, WT:ITN#Auto-archiving ITNC

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: normally 2 daily + 1 more monthly

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details: Daily at 0000 UTC:

• Add the section for the new day at WP:ITN/C
• Archive the oldest day from WP:ITN/C to the appropriate archive page
• Update Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/Archives as new archive subpages are created.

Discussion

• Approved for trial (1 week). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. –xeno^talk 14:50, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

  Trial complete. Edits:

  • "Fixing" layout of Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/Archives on the first run: [1]
  • September 4: [2][3]
  • September 5: [4][5]
  • September 6: [6][7][8]
  • September 7: [9][10]
  • September 8: [11][12]
  • September 9: [13][14]
  • September 10: [15][16]

  I saw no errors. It would be nice if this could be approved quickly to allow the bot to continue archiving WP:ITN/C uninterrupted. Anomie⚔ 15:49, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

•  Approved. Trusted, capable operator; innocuous task. –xeno^talk 17:25, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

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