Time filed: 18:53, Saturday September 3, 2011 ( UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/BAGBot.pm
Function overview: Comment on BRFAs where an unflagged bot is editing before a trial is approved.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User talk:Anomie#Propose bot task to notify if new bots are editing before trial
Edit period(s): periodic
Estimated number of pages affected: BRFAs only
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: The bot will do the following:
There are two opportunities for false positives:
False negatives will abound, of course, as it is impossible for the bot to determine if an approved bot is editing outside of its approval. Anomie ⚔ 18:53, 3 September 2011 (UTC) reply
{{
BRFA|IABot}}
, which AnomieBOT picked up and commented on. Then the listing was changed to {{
BRFA|IABot|Open}}
, which made AnomieBOT look for the nonexistent
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/IABot Open instead and forget about the other. So then when I fixed the listing, it treated
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/IABot as a new BRFA and posted its comment again. Handled that issue by having AnomieBOT not forget delisted BRFAs for a week, in case they show back up like what happened here.
Anomie
⚔ 17:01, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
No point in bureaucracy, useful task, only affects few pages, false positives are non-destructive and quickly taken care of, trusted bot-op. Approved. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 17:25, 5 September 2011 (UTC) reply
Time filed: 18:53, Saturday September 3, 2011 ( UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/BAGBot.pm
Function overview: Comment on BRFAs where an unflagged bot is editing before a trial is approved.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User talk:Anomie#Propose bot task to notify if new bots are editing before trial
Edit period(s): periodic
Estimated number of pages affected: BRFAs only
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: The bot will do the following:
There are two opportunities for false positives:
False negatives will abound, of course, as it is impossible for the bot to determine if an approved bot is editing outside of its approval. Anomie ⚔ 18:53, 3 September 2011 (UTC) reply
{{
BRFA|IABot}}
, which AnomieBOT picked up and commented on. Then the listing was changed to {{
BRFA|IABot|Open}}
, which made AnomieBOT look for the nonexistent
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/IABot Open instead and forget about the other. So then when I fixed the listing, it treated
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/IABot as a new BRFA and posted its comment again. Handled that issue by having AnomieBOT not forget delisted BRFAs for a week, in case they show back up like what happened here.
Anomie
⚔ 17:01, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
reply
No point in bureaucracy, useful task, only affects few pages, false positives are non-destructive and quickly taken care of, trusted bot-op. Approved. — HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 17:25, 5 September 2011 (UTC) reply