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BeepBot[edit]

Operator: Wolfgang42 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 05:05, Sunday October 21, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: Yes, automatically uploaded to the bot's user page

Function overview: Upload a graph of the current US President's job approval ratings.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot II 6

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: One file (changed daily)

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: Generates and uploads an SVG graph of the current president's approval ratings. Currently this file is File:Barack Obama's Presidential Job Approval Ratings, 2009-2012 (Gallup Poll).svg but this would be changed every term to reflect the current president and term. For example, if Romney wins the next election it would be File:Mitt Romney's Presidential Job Approval Ratings, 2012-2016 (Gallup Poll).svg, and retrieve its data from the proper URL on Gallup's website.

Discussion[edit]

Note that the source code on the bot's user page is not currently up-to-date; I'll update it in the next couple of days. Wolfgang42 (talk) 05:05, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply] 

array(2) {
  ["servedby"]=>
  string(4) "mw70"
  ["error"]=>
  array(5) {
    ["code"]=>
    string(7) "blocked"
    ["info"]=>
    string(34) "You have been blocked from editing"
    ["filekey"]=>
    string(32) "10y5nawpal4k.s88w7k.17692124.svg"
    ["sessionkey"]=>
    string(32) "10y5nawpal4k.s88w7k.17692124.svg"
    ["invalidparameter"]=>
    string(8) "filename"
  }
}

Wolfgang42 (talk) 14:04, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

            • Also the other thing to note is that the exact same code works fine on my computer, but not on the shared hosting server. Wolfgang42 (talk) 14:04, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
              • What are you trying to do exactly? Are you sure users group is allowed to do that? Looks like it's related to file uploads. "invalidparameter" field suggests the error may not be the account being blocked, rather a wrong/unimplemented error message for some misformatted request. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:15, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
                • I'm trying to upload the image. The exact same code works on my laptop, so it's not a permissions problem and it shouldn't be a misformatted request. Wolfgang42 (talk) 14:25, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
                  • Well, perhaps your server is failing to login. I see you have a "$wikipedia->login($username,$password);" line, but no checks if the login was successful or not. If it wasn't and the code carries on, then API might return errors for anonymous uploads. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
              • Sounds to me like the shared host's IP is hard-blocked. Anomie⚔ 17:03, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
                • I'd hazard a guess that that's probably the case. It's a free shared hosting server, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone has been trying to mess with Wikipedia from it in the past. The other thing it could be is some oddity of their php.ini--I get all sorts of strange errors that I have to work around when I use their services. It's not login failures or any such, since it works fine on my laptop. Where would I look to see if an IP is blocked from editing on Wikipedia? Wolfgang42 (talk) 19:19, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I notice you have a lot of source code in the bot's userspace. We generally advise against that, as in WP:NOTWEBHOST. Also note that all content on Wikipedia is CC-by-SA 3.0 and GFDL, so posting code licensed differently just makes a mess. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 14:15, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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