Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AHbot

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.

AHbot

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Operator: Ahonc

Automatic or Manually assisted: manually

Programming language(s): pywikipedia

Function overview: interwiki (and possible other pywikipedia scripts)

Edit period(s): several times per week

Estimated number of pages affected:

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

Function details:

Discussion

• And possibly which other pywikipedia scripts? – Quadell ^(talk) 22:37, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

  redirect.py, category.py, template.py, replace.py--Anatoliy (Talk) 23:14, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

  How would you intend to determine when it would be appropriate to run those scripts? Anomie⚔ 02:16, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Anatoliy, I see that you are an admin on Commons and have over 1000 edits on en.wiki, even if it's not your primary Wikiproject, and I'm sure you're trustworthy. But there are some potential pitfalls with, for instance, adding categories to living people or replacing large amounts of text without approval or consensus. It sounds like you're asking permission to use a bot to replace text or add categories whenever you want to, and that request is too broad. If you can assure us that you'll only use those scripts in unambiguously uncontroversial edits, that would help. – Quadell ^(talk) 13:03, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Now I use bot in en-wp only for interwiki, but I can (if it is needing, i.e. somebody ask me) run other scripts.--Anatoliy (Talk) 16:23, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits or 1 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. : Only for INTERWIKI linking edits using interwiki.py. Please request for a seperate BRFA for other tasks. It seems that you had already started the bot without a trial approval which is not really good. The fact that you are an admin in other Wikimedia projects adds a trust with which I am approving for a "trial". Please avoid non-article space for interwiking which is higly unstable. Best wishes -- Tinu Cherian - 08:43, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

 Approved. : Approved in good faith only for interwiki linking. Please avoid Non-article space. -- Tinu Cherian - 05:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

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