I've been taking a look at what User:VWBot was doing before it went down to see what else people might want DpmukBOT to do so as to get as much as I can in the first BRFA. I'm only going to deal with simple WP:CP tasks for now but there does appear to be some other tasks that I could do simply and so are worth doing before BRFA. Looking at VWBot's tasks (taken from it's user page):
It would be great if I could have some regulars at WP:CP comment on the above and/or add any of their own suggestions. Comments on what the bots currently doing would also be appreciated.
Just to make it clear in case anyone thinking I'm running an illegal bot, that, although I refer to it as a bot here, it currently isn't in the strictest sense as I check all of it's edits manually. Dpmuk ( talk) 02:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
free=yes
. It would be really nice, though, if we could modify that template in some way so we can flag the bot not to relist it. There are cases where a close paraphrase is probably close enough to constitute plagiarism, but not a copyright issue. I've typically rewritten those just to keep them from relisting, but that's time-consuming and time is something I don't have that much of anymore. Maybe a hidden note of some kind that it's been reviewed for copyright issues? Is that possible? --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 13:06, 16 February 2012 (UTC)botignore=yes
although both parameter name and value could be pretty much anything. Writing the code to "conscript" admins would be, I think, relatively easy. Getting community consensus may be a fair bit harder!
Dpmuk (
talk) 17:29, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
I've been taking a look at what User:VWBot was doing before it went down to see what else people might want DpmukBOT to do so as to get as much as I can in the first BRFA. I'm only going to deal with simple WP:CP tasks for now but there does appear to be some other tasks that I could do simply and so are worth doing before BRFA. Looking at VWBot's tasks (taken from it's user page):
It would be great if I could have some regulars at WP:CP comment on the above and/or add any of their own suggestions. Comments on what the bots currently doing would also be appreciated.
Just to make it clear in case anyone thinking I'm running an illegal bot, that, although I refer to it as a bot here, it currently isn't in the strictest sense as I check all of it's edits manually. Dpmuk ( talk) 02:43, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
free=yes
. It would be really nice, though, if we could modify that template in some way so we can flag the bot not to relist it. There are cases where a close paraphrase is probably close enough to constitute plagiarism, but not a copyright issue. I've typically rewritten those just to keep them from relisting, but that's time-consuming and time is something I don't have that much of anymore. Maybe a hidden note of some kind that it's been reviewed for copyright issues? Is that possible? --
Moonriddengirl
(talk) 13:06, 16 February 2012 (UTC)botignore=yes
although both parameter name and value could be pretty much anything. Writing the code to "conscript" admins would be, I think, relatively easy. Getting community consensus may be a fair bit harder!
Dpmuk (
talk) 17:29, 16 February 2012 (UTC)