Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Revibot

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Withdrawn by operator.

Revibot

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

Time filed: 03:27, Saturday November 22, 2014 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Pywikibot

Source code available: https://github.com/revi/Revibot

Function overview: Update userspace counter

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No):

Function details: This bot will edit User:Revi/counter (my doppleganger's subpage) page and put the value toward specific date for use on userbox. (think of D-Day counter)

Discussion

You don't need a bot to update a countdown - you can do that with mw:ParserFunctions.

For example:

{{#expr:({{#time: xNU|2015-11-12}} - {{#time: xNU}}) / 86400 round 0}} will give you -3279

You can fiddle with the round function's parameter if you want fractional parts of days, etc:

{{#expr:({{#time: xNU|2015-11-12}} - {{#time: xNU}}) / 86400 round 1}} will give you -3279.1 Reticulated Spline ^{(t • c)} 14:15, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, then I withdraw this request. — Revi 14:30, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. Uncontroversial non-BAG closure.

@-revi: You're most welcome! Reticulated Spline ^{(t • c)} 15:03, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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