Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Sk8er5000Bot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved. (Note: Renamed to User:SandgemBot on August 11, 2010.

Sk8er5000Bot

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Operator: Sk8er5000

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automated, non-supervised (but throtteled to 1 edit per 10 seconds)

Programming language(s): PHP with AWB fallback

Source code available: Still being written by Archanamiya Should be done in next 24-48 hours, will be linked to when done. / Sk8er5000Bot.php User:Kingbotk/Plugin

Function overview: Tag pages for WikiProjects on request

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: (for first run, tagging pages for WP:WPMVG) Around 160. Future runs - no more than 6 pages a minute or 360 a hour.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):Y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): NA - new bot

Function details: To apply WikiProject templates, such as Template:WikiProject Music Video Games to talk pages in selected categorys (such as Category:Music video games.

Discussion

• Would I please be able to have test permision to make a small test run? -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 19:33, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Go for it. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:02, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
• Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 04:01, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Trial complete. Contribs. During the trial I had one user come up to me about a mismatched template to a page that was wrongly in the category being scanned. At this point I stopped the bot, and explained to the user that the bot was a automated tool that went through a category. I, also during the trial, spotchecked several articles tagged to ensure they were correctly tagged, which they were. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 05:38, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
• Would I be able to request another trial run to try the fixed PHP code? The last trial was ran using AWB, to no avail. Thanks -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 07:02, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Archanamiya were fixing the PHP last night, but it just crashed again. So I, at the present moment, think AWB may be the best bet. Thanks -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 21:22, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

• Does this only do the pages in the given category, or does it work recursively? Mr.Z-man 06:42, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Given category only. -- Sk8er5000 (talk) 08:28, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Since most of BAG seems to be MIA -  Approved. --Chris 05:35, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

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