Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Danielfolsom2.bot

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.

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Operator: danielfolsom

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted.

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary: To perform laundry tasks for Wikipedia:Spotlight

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Whenever called upon

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

Function Details: This bot, upon being given a command by a project coordinator (with a new article) will edit Wikipedia:Spotlight#Current_article to replace the previous article with the new one, Wikipedia:Spotlight#Recently_concluded to add the previous article, its before and after links and the diff to the table, the talk page of the previous article to update the template (from {{spotlight}} to {{spotlighted}}) and edit the new article's talk page to add the {{spotlight}} template to it. Ideally, it will also update the irc topic.

Discussion

• So a project coordinator would tell you what the new spotlighted article should be, and you would manually run the bot to make these changes quickly and automatically? And it would make something like 3 page edits when it runs? – Quadell ^(talk) 14:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response on this: you're correct, a channel operator would signal it, and then to wikipedia it would be exactly 3 edits--danielfolsom 18:17, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Approved for trial (3 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Got one lined up? Let's see it! – Quadell ^(talk) 18:35, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. - so far so good, lets try it with a few more edits -- Tawker (talk) 19:56, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

There seem to still be a few glitches. Just do as many as it takes to get the bugs worked out. (I know the "3-edit trial" looks a little bizarre, but my reasoning was that a 20-edit trial would take around 6 weeks, given the rate at which Spotlight articles generally change. I just want to make sure we see it work once "in the field" before the bot gets approved.) – Quadell ^(talk) 20:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Looks good now. Will it automatically add the {{GA-inline}} when appropriate? – Quadell ^(talk) 18:05, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

I haven't told it to - however I can (probably) set it up to do so.--danielfolsom 20:47, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

 Approved. I see it made a full run-thru successfully: [1][2][3][4]. All good. – Quadell ^(talk) 23:59, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

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