Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Purbo T

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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.

Purbo T[edit]

Operator: Purodha Blissenbach (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: manually-assisted, occasionally automatic for single tasks

Programming Language(s): python, using the pywikipediabot framework updated daily from svn to latest version

Function Summary: interwiki link maintenance

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): occasionally, as time permits, average a bit less than daily.

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes, on Wikipedias aa, ab, ak, als, am, an, ang, ar, arc, as, ast, av, ay, az, ba, bar, bat-smg, bcl, be, be-x-old, bg, bh, bi, bm, bn, bo, bpy, br, bs, bug, bxr, ca, cbk-zam, cdo, ce, ceb, ch, chr, chy, co, cr, crh, cs, csb, cu, cv, cy, da, de, diq, dsb, dv, dz, ee, el, eml, eo, es, et, eu, fa, ff, fi, fiu-vro, fj, fo, fr, fur, fy, ga, gd, gl, glk, gn, got, gu, gv, ha, hak, haw, he, hi, hr, hsb, ht, hu, hy, ia, id, ie, ig, ik, ilo, io, is, iu, ja, jbo, jv, ka, kab, kg, ki, kk, kl, km, kn, ko, ks, ksh, ku, kv, kw, ky, la, lad, lb, lbe, lg, li, lij, lmo, ln, lo, lt, lv, map-bms, mg, mh, mi, mk, ml, mn, mr, ms, mt, my, mzn, na, nah, nap, nds, nds-nl, ne, new, ng, nl, nn, no, nov, nrm, nv, ny, oc, om, or, os, pa, pag, pam, pap, pdc, pi, pih, pl, pms, ps, qu, rm, rmy, rn, ro, roa-rup, roa-tara, ru, rw, sa, sc, scn, sco, sd, se, sg, sh, si, simple, sk, sl, sm, sn, so, sq, sr, ss, st, stq, su, sv, sw, ta, te, tet, tg, th, ti, tk, tl, tn, to, tpi, tr, ts, tt, tum, tw, ty, udm, ug, uk, ur, uz, ve, vec, vi, vls, vo, wa, war, wo, wuu, xal, xh, yi, yo, za, zea, zh, zh-classical, zh-min-nan, zh-yue, zu, more pending.
→ There is cumulated data available on the bot.

Function Details: The bot creates or updates interwiki links. It is intended to do so in all Wikipedias, and has gradually reached most of them. It starts predominantly from the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages, the bot operators home wiki. Most of the time it propagates new pages or altered page titles. I have been running the bot since long under the "manual assisted editing", and "low volume" rule without a bot flag, making approximately 4½ average edits a day up to now, usually carefully watching each individual edit, approving them manually. Future expectations, and plans, suggest that the edit volume may rise, and there may be occasions of reduced attention to individual edits. Thus I decided to ask for a bot flag.

Plans to extend the current work range are:

  • Offer the public a way to suggest individual pages to the bot for interwiki link propagation,
    • via an input form on the toolserver,
    • possibly also per wiki page
This is in the first place geared towards user pages. The need to interwikilink user pages will rise considerably with SUL. But of course, it can be used with any page in any Wikipedia.
  • Take pages on Commons into consideration, and update their links to the language Wikipedias. This is most useful for categories as well as most geographical places, astronomical objects, persons, etc.. This requires an extension to the pywikipediabot which I am currently working on, at low pace.
  • Access the replicated databases of the toolserver locally, instead of querying the individual Wikipedias over the net, so as to considerably reduce server load and processing time in cases not requiring actual page updates. Also this is a software extension under construction, and it is only workable when the toolservers current replication lag is sufficiently low.
  • Document detected interwiki link conflicts on a public web page, on the toolserver, and collect interactive suggestions, how to solve them. Further processing of collected suggestions is yet to be determined.

--Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 21:43, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

I have no problem with people who run that many interwiki bots 0.0. So no objections here. CWii(Talk|Contribs) 22:18, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing as its a standard request that is running on other wikis, lets try a Approved for trial (100 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. to make sure it works with en.wiki's settings and all. MBisanz talk 04:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. giggy (:O) 12:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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