Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Addbot 19

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.

Addbot 19

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!}

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (Manual run)

Programming Language(s): PHP

Function Overview: Wikipedia:Bot_requests#WikiProject.2FTaskforce_Spammer. Messaging wikiprojects

Edit period(s): Run when needed

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

Function Details: Sends out a given message to all wikiprojects. Just a simple modification of my user message bot. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 08:29, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

Complete side-note: Assuming this passes (and I think it should, within reason) would you mind coding it as generically as possible? So people could come to you in future and say "I want X delivered to Y WikiProjects. I did some of them manually already, could the bot ignore those?" That would be most helpful. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 09:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

The bot is already coded, and coded very genericly. It can either use a cat, a plain text list or a list of links. Ill just add one new variable which will be something like $devlivery[ns] for the name space of the delivery. Can be set to "User_talk:" or "Wikipedia:Wikiproject" e.t.c.

It will be very easy to use multiple times for multiple tasks even if I dont do this. its 44 lines of code when you only acctually need 30 :P ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 10:08, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. - to prove the world isn't going to end when you start it up. - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 21:01, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

trial edits here ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 20:56, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry I meant here. All seems good. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 21:04, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} Can someone approve or deny this? The sooner it is rolled out the better. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 02:25, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} Any idea how many projects there are in total? How many edits per run do you expect? MBisanz ^talk 07:09, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

See User:Addshore/Sandbox2. Per the lists I origionaly got that rom it is 1518 wikiprojects so 1518 edits. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 07:33, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Any idea how often this will be running? Who will tell it when to run (A project coordinator or something)? I'm just trying to head off the "Why is this bot spamming us about something we don't want" arguments. MBisanz ^talk 07:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Well I don't really know how often it would run, but it's worth running this time at least. Other bots don't ask permission before spamming projects, I think Shepbot just spammed about 1200 of them for a WikiProject Council message. Also we're implementing a news system at WP:AAlerts/News so it shouldn't run all that often if people use the news system instead.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 07:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

 Approved. Responsible editor, I trust him to know when to send the messages. MBisanz ^talk 07:53, 5 March 2009 (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.

You're kidding me?

No, you're probably not. This was a test spam? Stop spamming Wikipedia project pages. Enough. --KP Botany (talk) 09:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Well it does say "approved" does it not? §hep^Talk 01:28, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Approved by whom? Where is the link to the community approval for this? If there is not, stop spamming. If community consensus on this has been reached, link it. --KP Botany (talk) 01:42, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

But this is a task that is commonly approved, and there are plenty of bots already doing it. Xclamation point 01:44, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

KP removed the first line of that above post, which was soon reverted. A strike through of that sentence might be best. NuclearWarfare _(Talk) 02:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

No, I don't have a grudge against AddBot. I thought the orphan tags were useful on all but species stubs, at least, until I got multiply reverted by the bot, and my concerns were not listened to. Since my concerns aren't being heard, there's no reason to assume that my support of some of the tasks was listened to either, and here you are with a personal attack showing just that.

Let's go back to the topic at hand, and it's not attacking me for "having a grudge." If the task is commonly approved link to its approval. --KP Botany (talk) 02:22, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I appear to have misread the summary. Sorry about that. Xclamation point 02:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

No surprise there that the bot owners group in their flurry of us against them wants personal attacks against editors to be part of the discussion. --KP Botany (talk) 02:36, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't want a personal attack to stand and I have asked X! to strike it out or remove it on IRC, however removing other's comments is not ideal. Feel free to revert me if you feel strongly about it. —Nn123645 (talk) 02:40, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually removing another editor's clear cut personal attack, and you don't dispute that it is one, is allowed according to the policy/guidelines. You do seem to want it to stand, otherwise you would have taken another moment to simply read further, or think about it. Frankly, it shows exactly what is the problem with this whole issue. I disagreed with one part of the bot's work, because it trashed article space. BAG appears to be on the warpath about that. And, X! is an administrator, his/her personal attacks should probably stand so folks know what is what--like one would hope administrators would know. --KP Botany (talk) 02:44, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

(edit conflict)The main reason for my reverting was to preserve the discussion for eventual archival purposes as your comment was a response to X!'s comment and it would have broken the overall flow of the discussion. While I really don't want to get into a policy debate, RA does state that "On other talk pages, especially where such text is directed against you, removal should typically be limited to clear-cut cases where it is obvious the text is a true personal attack." I didn't think X!s comment met that criteria, as, while it was a personal attack, it did not take the shape of a truly malicious attack in the form of the standard "<insert user here> is a <insert profane word here>" or a more high level attack intended to humiliate and degrade the subject, rather it was a mere borderline comment that I truly doubt was intended to be degrading, though it may be interpreted as such. This is a bit of a moot point now since X! has agreed to strike out the comment. —Nn123645 (talk) 02:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

New section about topic

Please provide a link to the community consensus for this bot task. Thanks. --KP Botany (talk) 03:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

This page + Wikipedia:BOTREQ#WikiProject.2FTaskforce_Spammer.. And please read WP:POINT.Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 03:06, 8 March 2009 (UTC)