@ Legoktm, GrahamColm, Ian Rose, and Hahc21: There are several separate discussions about this at the moment, spread across multiple pages. If you don't mind, I'd like to centralize discussion here (I expect we will eventually move this page into the WP namespace). I will add a link here from those other discussions.
Lego asked for an explanation of the bot's importance, so he can prioritize it amongst his workload.
How we got here
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GimmeBot closed all FACs, FARs, and FLCs for many years, and also (as a separate task) implemented articlehistory on closed GANs and PRs. Occasionally Gimme would take some time off, and when he did, I would step in and manually close FACs and FARs in his absence.
GimmeBot stopped operating at the end of January, leaving us without a bot to handle FAC, FLC, and FAR closes. Someone from FLC made a new bot request for FLC closing; the task request is at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VoxelBot 3. The new bot was asked to use the procedures for FLC closing documented at User:Hahc21/FL Bot, and I requested that it also follow the procedures for FAC and FAR closing documented at User:Maralia/FA bot. From the end of January to nearly the end of February, the FLC folks manually closed all FLCs, and I manually closed all FACs and FARs. On February 25, VoxelBot was approved, and it began to close FLCs and FACs. At FAC, we have had ongoing issues with the functions the bot does perform:
We also needed functions that were part of the original request but were never written in:
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The tl/dr summary, from a FAC perspective:
I am so grateful that the current bot saved us (me) from manually closing all the FACs this year, but unfortunately we are facing precisely the same situation again. I really appreciate your willingness to help out, Lego. Good luck on your exams this week. Maralia ( talk) 06:09, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
I am manually closing Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Interstate 805/archive1 and Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Interstate 70 in West Virginia/archive1 since the bot screwed up again, and noticed a few things...
Also, my manual closes should probably be checked
Thanks,
Rs
chen
7754
20:36, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 36.
I just did FAC for now, I should be able to do FAR and FLC in the next few days. Legoktm ( talk) 09:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Legoktm, GrahamColm, Ian Rose, and Hahc21: There are several separate discussions about this at the moment, spread across multiple pages. If you don't mind, I'd like to centralize discussion here (I expect we will eventually move this page into the WP namespace). I will add a link here from those other discussions.
Lego asked for an explanation of the bot's importance, so he can prioritize it amongst his workload.
How we got here
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GimmeBot closed all FACs, FARs, and FLCs for many years, and also (as a separate task) implemented articlehistory on closed GANs and PRs. Occasionally Gimme would take some time off, and when he did, I would step in and manually close FACs and FARs in his absence.
GimmeBot stopped operating at the end of January, leaving us without a bot to handle FAC, FLC, and FAR closes. Someone from FLC made a new bot request for FLC closing; the task request is at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VoxelBot 3. The new bot was asked to use the procedures for FLC closing documented at User:Hahc21/FL Bot, and I requested that it also follow the procedures for FAC and FAR closing documented at User:Maralia/FA bot. From the end of January to nearly the end of February, the FLC folks manually closed all FLCs, and I manually closed all FACs and FARs. On February 25, VoxelBot was approved, and it began to close FLCs and FACs. At FAC, we have had ongoing issues with the functions the bot does perform:
We also needed functions that were part of the original request but were never written in:
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The tl/dr summary, from a FAC perspective:
I am so grateful that the current bot saved us (me) from manually closing all the FACs this year, but unfortunately we are facing precisely the same situation again. I really appreciate your willingness to help out, Lego. Good luck on your exams this week. Maralia ( talk) 06:09, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
I am manually closing Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Interstate 805/archive1 and Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Interstate 70 in West Virginia/archive1 since the bot screwed up again, and noticed a few things...
Also, my manual closes should probably be checked
Thanks,
Rs
chen
7754
20:36, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Legobot 36.
I just did FAC for now, I should be able to do FAR and FLC in the next few days. Legoktm ( talk) 09:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)