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I would like to use this bot manually with AutoWikiBrowser, in English, to perform tedious/repetitive tasks, particularly cleanup and typo fixing or Find and Replace, mostly in Category:Stargate, at a slow pace whilst my computer is idle. To be run infrequently and for short lengths of time, but ultimately indefinitely (until the Wikiproject Stargate is complete, I guess). Would very much aid my contributions to the project. Thanks. -- Alfakim -- talk 03:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
As long as you are only changing spellings and usages that are unquestionably wrong to begin with (rather than being acceptable variations), I have no objection. — May. 18, '06 [04:32] < freak| talk>
This sounds a little open-ended to me, especially given the "for now", the "etc", and the all-embracing nature of "cleanup" (ah, the edits I've seen under such a summary...). Are there really so many of these that supervised use of AWB isn't perfectly adequate? Can you confirm this will be a) only be run on SG articles, until such time as separate approval is requested (and granted), b) will confine itself to SG-specific terminology and proper nouns, and c) will work to a pre-published list (linked to from the wikiproject, at a minimum) of s&r's? Alai 22:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Bot User: User:ZyMOS-Bot Human User: User:ZyMOS
Run by a human, only run when large number of graphics. Like resently computer chip manufacturer logos, fair use.
It is a only minorly modified version of Upload script by Erik Möller - Developed for the Wikimedia Commons, It does not need to be listed publicly, it is not an important , or significant bot, and the changes to the original are a few lines. I only need it approved so user:freakofnurture will not block my IP. ZyMOS 00:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
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ZyMOS 00:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Alaibot's been on a trial run for a couple of weeks now: assuming everything's satisfactory, can approval now be finalised? Alai 02:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I want to have a robot named Babylon5 and here is the tasks of my robot:
Before I read that I must request it, So What should I do??? -- MehranVB 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I would like to add the permission for my current bot to add conservation status to taxoboxes. I have asked above at Add_conservation_status_to_taxoboxes with no reply so far. The bot is now ready for initial testing (have updated 2 articles so far with no problem). See also discussion at Tree of life It is written in pyton using the pywikiframe work. It will be run when needed, first until all articles with taxoboxes are updated, then when new articles are created. It will be run by a human, not scheduled.
The bots history so far can be seen at StefanBot contributions it have not had any complaints so far. Stefan 06:26, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Bot-maru is my account for running both automatic and semi-automatic editting scripts; it's a throttled Pywikipedia setup which I update from CVS every other day or so, and when the script supports it, I use my XML dump instead of the live Wikipedia to save on bandwidth. The user page has the requisite information suggested at the top of this page, and it is also listed/registered over on Wikipedia:Bots.
The automatic edits generally fall into updating links (using standardize_interwiki.py or inter-wiki.py) and updating templates (for example, recently it was converting from {{ starwars-stub}} to the more proper {{ StarWars-stub}}). I hope to eventually modify the weblinkchecker.py program so that it can add Internet Archive links to broken external links. Now, I have received a number of complaints on its talk page about making edits to fix blatant spelling corrections and disambiguation fixes to talk pages, but those were all for my semi-automated editting with pywikipedia, and not my automatic ones. Though I disagree strongly with the complainers, I am looking for a way to exclude the Talk: namespace from my replacements, so that should not be an issue. -- maru (talk) contribs 17:45, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I want to create and run my own bot that can cleanup articles called CleanBot. It will start running June 1 by me. The bot will be cleanup articles with grammar, references, NPOV, merging, no spam, language, notes, cpoyediting, images, fact checking, and others. General Eisenhower • ( at war or at peace) ( History of War) 16:51, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I want to run this bot daily from a crontab to perform various maintenance tasks. Specifically, the bot will archive WP:AfC, as requested on Wikipedia:Bot requests#Archiving Wikipedia:Articles for Creation. This used to be done by User:Uncle G's 'bot. I've run the script by hand twice. Diffs for the last run: 1, 2, 3.
Furthermore, I want to transfer the updating of three subpages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics, which I have been doing for months under my own account to the satisfaction of the members of the WikiProject, to the bot account.
All together, this comes to five edits and one page move per day. The bot uses the Python Wikipediabot Framework. More information is on User:Jitse's bot.
Finally, I'd like to hear the opinions from the experts here on whether I should publish the pywikipedia patch which enables page moves. In the wrong hand, it may lead to WoW-style problems, though I think that this is not much of an issue with the all the countermeasures which have been implemented (page move throttle and revert), and there are also many good uses of this functionality. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 14:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Permission granted to go ahead and run this, it looks great -- Tawker 06:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I would like to get input on expanding Pegasusbot's usage to add {{ linkless}} to pages linked to on Special:Lonelypages as per the request here. It seems like a fairly good and benign request but I figured it would be better to get input before putting it to practice just in case. Pegasus1138 Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 02:01, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok, a newline is represented by \r\n
also remember that there are other disambig templates like {{
3CC}}.
Martin 10:07, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Task: To make a group of minor improvements to U.S. Census articles. Sample edit
here.
Method: Automatically using AWB.
Speed: 1-4 per minute.
Number: c. 33,333 articles.
Frequency: Once.
Duration: Will take between 5 days and 2 months depending how many hours a day it is run.
Testing: 10% of the articles have already been changed. A similar run was done successfully earlier this year.
Regards, Rich Farmbrough 11:03 25 May 2006 (UTC).
I've been manually fixing things like cross-namespace redirects (before they get deleted in RfD, it's best to orphan them to not create redlinks) with AWB, but I'd like a bot flag so I don't have to click things each time and to not clog up recent changes. Speed would be 6-8 a minute. -- Rory096 19:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
This seems like a one-time thing (e.g. this recent business involving assume good faith). Is there anything else you'd need a fully-auto bot for? Is RfD really that busy? -- Cyde↔Weys 19:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
My bot can bypass specific redirects. Computerjoe 's talk 19:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Sounds good. Rory seems to know how to use AWB responsibly. As long as he doesn't veer off into obtuse formatting changes involving U.S.-U.K. spellings, or dates, or units of measure, which I'm sure he won't, I see no problems. — May. 26, '06 [06:15] < freak| talk>
OK, it's done with its first run of about 3047. -- Rory096 18:43, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Beastie Bot Updates the conservation status of species in the taxobox as well as adding a proper reference, and generating a detailed log. It's very cautious and, for example, will not update a species if it has two species names listed (e.g. Rhea (bird) or if binomial names do not perfectly match. While the bot errs on caution, it also understands the taxonomic synonyms used both in Wikipedia's taxobox and IUCN's database. I'd like to give it a trial run on 10 or 20 articles. Unfortunately I seem to have duplicated some of the effort put into StefanBot, however my bot goes further in that it adds a full reference to IUCN. — Pengo 13:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I have developed an RfA Analysis script that analyzes RfAs and looks for possible duplicate voters. Once done, it posts a report to User:Tangotango/RfA Analysis/Report. (Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Duplicate_voter_reporting_bot). It does not edit any other pages, retrieves all nominations in one XML export operation, and will promptly quit if anything goes awry. I am seeking approval to run this as a cron job once every hour so that it will be more useful than in its current, manually triggered form. (Tangobot already has a bot flag for an unrelated interwiki linking job). Thanks, Tangot a ngo 17:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I am inclined to agree. You don't need our approval if it's the one page running once an hour. We wouldn't even notice it. Go ahead. robchurch | talk 14:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to use a bot to automatically indicate in the list of Featured articles which articles have been featured on our main page. This used to be done by simply bolding the article's name; the new method uses a template and a stylesheet modification so that only interested users will see the bolding (see the source code for the page linked above for more information). The "bolding" itself is quite straightforward: at 0:00UTC, the bot would look at Wikipedia:Today's featured article to know which article should be bolded, then it would (1) modify the list; (2) update the {{ Mainpage date to come}} template on the article's talk page to {{ Mainpage date}}; (3) add the date to the list Wikipedia:Featured articles nominated in 2006 (or 2005, 2004, etc, depending on nomination date), thus a grand total of 3 edits per day. Wikipedia talk:Featured articles has liked the idea so far.
My first, obvious, idea was to run this script as User:Zorglbot, which recently got a bot flag. However, I thought about a useful side effect if I do it under my own username: when doing edit number (2) above, I can automatically add to my watchlist the often-vandalised FA, and help keeping an eye on it. The edit summary would of course still reflect the fact than an automatic process did the job rather than a human.
For the practical details, the script is written in Perl and it shares a good deal of code with User:Zorglbot. Any comment welcome ! Schutz 13:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
This is basically in response to Curps being semi away and the un-bot assisted WoW attack today. I'm pretty sure every reader here is aware of Tawkerbot2 and its vandal fighting abilities (to the point where I get complaints if the bot is offline). As such and seeing comments that WoW vandalism is up I have a new proposal for the codebase.
What Tawkerbot2A would do would be pretty simple.
If move is subject to subject + on wheels!
If user triggers above action multiple times (say 3 times or more)
or
*Block for specific amount of time (say 24 hours) if IP or 15 min if AOL / sharedip (in a whitelist) - I'm told I'm thinking to hard, IP's can't move pages --
Tawker 14:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I know this one is a lot more contoversial, I'm willing to share the code on this one around a few people, so its not just myself and Joshbuddy who have code access, Pgk will also have a copy and so will Rob Church, Tim Starling, Curps, Freakofnurture, lightdarkness) etc. I'm not putting this one in a normal approvals policy (otherwise it'd be running by now :o ) mostly due to the flag it will need / the fact that it is contoversial and am putting this up for a full debate. If you have any questions comments etc please do ask below and I'll do my best to provide the answer you need -- Tawker 05:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I have nothing contrary to running this bot. However, a past attempt from a user to acquire a second administrator account has shown large opposition from the community: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Genisock2. Some of the objections raised there (including mine) do not apply here, but others do. It could be probably less controversial to run the bot using your regular account, just like Curps did. - Liberatore( T) 11:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Go for it. That Genisock thing was another matter entirely. Tawkerbot needs a bot flag for reversing page move vandalism as well as blocking ridiculous vandals. Just this morning I woke up to an anonymous IP that had vandalized 29 times in a few minutes ... meanwhile, ctawkbot was complaining every single time but no one was awake to do anything about it. If Tawkerbot could block vandals on its own that'd be great. -- Cyde↔Weys 14:37, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
To my knowledge, there's never been a controversial WoW move. A bot to revert these so the rest of the hardworking editors here don't even have to think about it anymore would be WONDERFUL. :) -- InShaneee 01:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Absolutely not. You told us that Tawkerbot2 would not be an admin, and it shouldn't be. If you want admin rights for an account, ask at RfA rather than on a backwater like this. And I will oppose it there. No admin bots, thank you. - Splash talk 18:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I think this would be a very useful tool. Perhaps it could be done on a trial basis, say for one week, and weekly increments added. Would that remove your hesitations? Danny 23:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, well, seeing how Curps's bot (and the lack of Curps bot was the entire reason this proposal came out, there was a need for a replacment and I was asked for one) has magically come back, the need for this bot has been become a lot less critical. Despite the fact that this really is a new bot (I just added its username somewhat similar to prevent major confusion and some vandal took Tawkerbot3 on me :( ) it does appear that people are paranoid about any concept of an automated tool having elevated access. It's pretty clear that a lot of people don't want this bot and I'm not about to break the trust the community placed in me and start sneaking stuff in. As for the scope issue, its a trust thing and if you honestly don't trust me, so be it, I don't have hurt feelings. This bot isn't the autorevert bot, its different but again, from what I've read any such admin bot will be opposed and its your choice to oppose it - I'll accept it, just don't complain about the lack of it later.
Yes, Tawkerbot2 was contoversial when it came out and no, it was other users who suggested it auto block (I said it was technically possible but I've always had reservations about it). Now when Tawkerbot2 goes down I get emails telling me that it's down and that they want it back. I really don't care if this bot goes operational or not, at least now I can go with a clear conscious that my solution was proposed and rejected, nobody can grumble about the lack of automated tools to help. -- Tawker 08:48, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I have no problem with this proposal. I trust Tawker, and I trust his ability to code a bot. Provided that safeguards are put into place (Check if it was created as an "on wheels" page, etc), none of the reasons for opposition to oppose above really address the core issue, and that is: Is the bot harmless? (I believe that it is, provided that there are safeguards); Is it useful? (A no-brainer); Is it a server hog (No more so than TB2); and has it been approved (The only point of contention). Werdna T c @ b C m L t 07:48, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm admin of the Azeri wikipedia. My bot is Memty Bot and run on the pyWikipediaBot. Bot adding interwikilinks with multilogin function, from All Turkic languages wikipedia (az, ba, cs, kk, ky, tk, tr, tt, ug, uz) and Deutsch wikipedia ( de). Memty 13:45, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Scepbot ( talk · contribs) I'd like to run a double-redirect fixing bot. The bot will run daily, late-afternoon UTC on weekdays, and mid-morning UTC weekends. The bot will use pywikipedia's own redirect.py, so there would not likely be any error. As someone who had done 800 redirect fixes in a weekend before, I know that it's a boring, repetitive task. There are already three bots that outline use for double-redirect fixing, but two don't actually do much fixing, and the other runs weekly, in which hundreds of redirects can build up. Will ( E@) T 20:11, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Special:DoubleRedirects isn't cached that often, unfortunately. I'm also requesting it to be able to do miscellaneous maintainence/backlog clearance tasks if there are no redirects listed on Special:DoubleRedirects. This is a seperate matter for the bot, and would like feedback on this aspect. Will ( E@) T 16:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Werdnabot's been archiving user talk pages for a while now, and has occasionally had a bit of trouble appending to protected archives. Would it be possible to somehow (1) Allow Werdnabot to edit protected pages; and possibly but less likely (2) Allow archives made by Werdnabot to be optionally automatically protected. I don't really care either way, but thought it might be an interesting thing to see what sort of opinions are held by the community. Werdna (talk) 04:18, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I am opposed to this. I don't think a bot should be going about protecting pages or editing protected pages. I see no reason to endorse blanket protection of talk page archives, and I don't like it. If a specific page is being vandalised, then it can be dealt with on an individual basis. robchurch | talk 23:16, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
This suggestion is semi-theoretical, insofar as a) I don't know how to write or maintain a bot, and b) I haven't asked anyone else whether they'd write or maintain a bot, but since the functionality is pretty simple, I figure I may as well ask if such a bot would be approved rather than asking someone to write a possibly unlikely-to-be-approved bot.
According to current policy, users without a bot flag shouldn't make more than about two edits a minute. So my suggestion is to make a bot, preferably with sysop status (yes, already controversial there) that will monitor recent changes for extremely rapid editing by non-bot users. I was thinking something along the lines of:
Alternatively, for a less controversial version, discard the blocking and just keep the notices. I think it would be preferable to keep the blocks, just for the purposes of damage control (assuming a large percentage of unapproved bots will either be doing something undesirable such as spellchecking, or will be buggy), but they could be dispensed with, in which case it might be better to post on AN/I or wherever somewhat more quickly. In either case, less flagrant violations of the rules (say four edits a minute) should result in posts somewhere but not blocks.
Of course, probably some people will think this is extreme. Personally, I would take a zero-tolerance policy to unauthorized bots. There's almost never an excuse to be making a lot of edits without a bot flag; it's indicative of a lack of community support. (There are exceptions, such as User:Tawkerbot2 and User:Curps, who could be explicitly whitelisted.) Just last night I had to assist in stopping User:Marudubshinki from rendering Special:Newpages totally worthless, for instance, and I know of at least one more user who I'm pretty sure runs a spell-check bot from his user account. This is Bad, and should be monitored somehow. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 03:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
This bot will use AWB and a simple script to add the {{linkless}} template to all listed orphan pages periodically. I believe this will spur the creation of links to them, distributing the work to people actually interested in the articles, and help deal with the large current backlog. I'd like to run this automatically after some trial runs for a few weeks, as this is a simple, automatic task with little chance for error. -- W.marsh 17:00, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Approved it for a flag. robchurch | talk 01:08, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Beastie Bot appears to be working well, apart from some hiccups with the logging output and run speed (py-wp-framework was meant to throttle it). There is more info about the bot above and on its page.
I'd like to get a bot flag for it before I continue it running, if that's appropriate. I welcome any feedback. — Pengo 17:03, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Tullbot will be manually operated by JethroT, assisting him to add the interwiki links. The standard, not-altered interwiki.py script will be used. The bot will run whenever a new article is added to the nl:wiki by JethroT to take care of the interwiki links. Thanks. JethroT 20:14, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
It's been well over a week since I requested a bot flag for Beastie Bot. I've received no response. So I've done a trial run and received, well, no response. I'll just keep on running it if I continue to receive no response. If anyone feels like reviewing the bot or asking questions, by all means feel free. Otherwise I'll continue running it and continue to receive no response. Thanks. — Pengo 12:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
This would be a bot run in AWB auto mode, with supervision by me most of the time while it is running, probably would extend to some time while I am away from my computer. The purpose for this bot is to implement Wikipedia:The German solution for userboxes, and it will be editing like this ( more examples) as I am doing now. The only difference is getting a bot flag to run it in AWB auto mode, with edits approximately 10 seconds apart. -- Hunter 18:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, because of the userbox controversy, I am going to withdraw the request of such use and probably re-apply later, rather...
Rather than the above, I would change it to subst user talk templates, using AWB. For example:
Because of the large number, I'd need bot flag to run AWB in auto mode. -- WinHunter ( talk) 14:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a French Wikpedian fr:User:Vargenau (where I am sysop), here User:Vargenau, and I ask for permission to use robot User:Escarbot.
This robot will only be used to made interwikis (using pywikipedia interwiki.py).
You can see the interwikis I made by hand on Special:Contributions/Vargenau.
I have robot status on nl: and sr:, demand has been done on fr:, pt: sv:, it:, da:, ht:. Other languages will follow.
Thank you in advance.
I have developed two scripts for checking incomplete AfD nominations and miscategorized prods. Currently, I am maintaining the reports of the first ones manually at User:Paolo Liberatore/IncompleteAfD, and taking care of articles of the second kind myself. I'd like DumbBOT to upload these lists automatically to user subpages. More generally, I'd like to get permission for uploading similar reports to userspace, so that I do not have to request it every time I develop a new script. - Liberatore( T) 13:42, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
I've decided on another use for my bot: fixing double redirects using pywikipediabot. the Wikinews equivalent worked on fixing double redirects there, and it worked just fine. Hopefully, I can bring the same service to Wikipedia. — THIS IS MESSED OCKER (TALK) 03:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Yrithinnd 23:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Task: To delink months of the year and days of the week in a pruned list of articles. Sample edit
here.
Method: Automatically using AWB.
Speed: 1-4 per minute.
Number: c. 12,000 articles.
Frequency: Once, possibly followed by monthly runs if needed (in which case a public whitelist will be made available).
Duration: Will take from 3 days depending how many hours a day it is run.
Testing: Several hundred articles have already been changed. A partial run was done earlier this year.
Note: This is not touching the contentious areas of date editing.
Rich Farmbrough 23:26 10 June 2006 (GMT).
This is a bot used on my wiki, that does the following:
I will post an example of where the bot has been used over the next few days. It's worked quite well so far. -- Sunholm (talk) 20:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
NOTE: Manually-assisted bot. -- Sunholm (talk) 20:23, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
No. robchurch | talk 20:42, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I would like to request permission for a bot flag for User:StefanBot. Please see previous not replied to request above for answers to the most common questions and the talk page for what the bot does, the reson for a bot flag is that the bot does more edits per minute than allowed without a bot flag. The bot will be run ad-hoc every month or so to catch up with new articles and slowly enhanced to incorporate more and more functionallity. Stefan 23:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
This bot will run semi-automatic, meaning that all edits will be reviewed before editing a page. I want to use it for solving links to disambiguation pages, with solve_disambiguation.py (pywikipedia). I can't say what period the bot will be used as this depends on when I want to work on a disambiguation page. I already have experience operating a bot on the Dutchlanguaged wikipedia as nl:User:Erwin85Bot, which I mostly use for disambiguation pages. Regards, Erwin85 21:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC).
N-Bot has been running on and off for almost a year without major problems, but until prompted on my talk page I hadn't thought to ask for a flag. Well, I am now. ~~ N ( t/ c) 22:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
This bot will run a copy of Tawkerbot2's code, which was developed by User:Tawker based on User:Pgk's irc monitor bot. Its purpose is to help with the revert of blatant vandalism (as it's currently being done with Tawkerbot2 and Cydebot.
It will not run unattended and it's expected to run afternoons and night CST during weekdays.
Now, in the past week a pooling code was added to the code so multiple bots won't conpete against each other but rather will split the work with User:Tawkerbot2 and User:Cydebot, so this doens't represent an additional hog of resources as this bot will work in cooperation with other vandalbots. -- Drini 20:02, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
It would be nice to get a bot which will remove Serbia and Montenegro from these articles on places in Vojvodina province of Serbia. Article intros are usually written in the form XXXTown nameXXX, XXXDistrictXXX, XXXSerbiaXXX, XXXSerbia and MontenegroXXX so removing of Serbia and Montenegro from this section would be justified.-- Avala 15:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC) List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina.
This is a bot created by
WickeThEwok originally for the purpose of repairing disambiguation links for
Sasha/
Alexander Coe. It is manually assisted and will be run sporadically. In the future I plan to use this to assist with other such tasks, most often with respect to electronic music. It uses pywikipedia. I think this is important because there are many similar cases to this I have seen when dealing with music articles. Though if someone wants to run their bot to fix this that'd be great, too. Thanks!
Wickethewok 17:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC) Withdrawn for now at least.
Wickethewok 13:15, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I have Been running my Bot for a while I have:
there have Been a few comments About Edit Summeries, and user pagesand a subst'ing error in HTML commentsand Finaly a comment about my bot's edit speed without a Flag. All of the issues I have addressed and resolved. Betacommand 05:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
I see no cause for objection. Proceed to special:listusers/bureaucrat. — Jul. 1, '06 [17:24] < freak| talk>
Request flag per USer:lightdarkness #SmackBot task approval III. Rich Farmbrough 15:10 20 June 2006 (GMT).
I'd like to go through Category:Redundant media and replace instances of the redundant image/whatever with the new one using AWB. Each image would be fed into AWB by me, so if there are any disputes over whether or not it's redundant (like Image:Flag of the Olympic Movement.svg), then I won't change the usages. -- Rory096 18:25, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Go for it. -- Cyde↔Weys 18:26, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
This would be extremely helpful, more so whenever bug 5463 gets fixed. — Jun. 20, '06 [19:14] < freak| talk>
I am seeking approval to run a derivative of my RfA Analysis bot to manage the tallies and search for duplicate/invalid votes for the upcoming Esperanza elections. It will update the "/Tally" and "/Report" subpages of that page, once every hour. The bot features the same editing/analysis capabilities as my RfA bot, so I doubt it will pose any new problems. Thanks, Tangot a ngo 17:55, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
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I would like to use this bot manually with AutoWikiBrowser, in English, to perform tedious/repetitive tasks, particularly cleanup and typo fixing or Find and Replace, mostly in Category:Stargate, at a slow pace whilst my computer is idle. To be run infrequently and for short lengths of time, but ultimately indefinitely (until the Wikiproject Stargate is complete, I guess). Would very much aid my contributions to the project. Thanks. -- Alfakim -- talk 03:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
As long as you are only changing spellings and usages that are unquestionably wrong to begin with (rather than being acceptable variations), I have no objection. — May. 18, '06 [04:32] < freak| talk>
This sounds a little open-ended to me, especially given the "for now", the "etc", and the all-embracing nature of "cleanup" (ah, the edits I've seen under such a summary...). Are there really so many of these that supervised use of AWB isn't perfectly adequate? Can you confirm this will be a) only be run on SG articles, until such time as separate approval is requested (and granted), b) will confine itself to SG-specific terminology and proper nouns, and c) will work to a pre-published list (linked to from the wikiproject, at a minimum) of s&r's? Alai 22:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Bot User: User:ZyMOS-Bot Human User: User:ZyMOS
Run by a human, only run when large number of graphics. Like resently computer chip manufacturer logos, fair use.
It is a only minorly modified version of Upload script by Erik Möller - Developed for the Wikimedia Commons, It does not need to be listed publicly, it is not an important , or significant bot, and the changes to the original are a few lines. I only need it approved so user:freakofnurture will not block my IP. ZyMOS 00:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
@ns_headers,Content_Type=>'form-data',Content=>
ZyMOS 00:11, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Alaibot's been on a trial run for a couple of weeks now: assuming everything's satisfactory, can approval now be finalised? Alai 02:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I want to have a robot named Babylon5 and here is the tasks of my robot:
Before I read that I must request it, So What should I do??? -- MehranVB 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I would like to add the permission for my current bot to add conservation status to taxoboxes. I have asked above at Add_conservation_status_to_taxoboxes with no reply so far. The bot is now ready for initial testing (have updated 2 articles so far with no problem). See also discussion at Tree of life It is written in pyton using the pywikiframe work. It will be run when needed, first until all articles with taxoboxes are updated, then when new articles are created. It will be run by a human, not scheduled.
The bots history so far can be seen at StefanBot contributions it have not had any complaints so far. Stefan 06:26, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Bot-maru is my account for running both automatic and semi-automatic editting scripts; it's a throttled Pywikipedia setup which I update from CVS every other day or so, and when the script supports it, I use my XML dump instead of the live Wikipedia to save on bandwidth. The user page has the requisite information suggested at the top of this page, and it is also listed/registered over on Wikipedia:Bots.
The automatic edits generally fall into updating links (using standardize_interwiki.py or inter-wiki.py) and updating templates (for example, recently it was converting from {{ starwars-stub}} to the more proper {{ StarWars-stub}}). I hope to eventually modify the weblinkchecker.py program so that it can add Internet Archive links to broken external links. Now, I have received a number of complaints on its talk page about making edits to fix blatant spelling corrections and disambiguation fixes to talk pages, but those were all for my semi-automated editting with pywikipedia, and not my automatic ones. Though I disagree strongly with the complainers, I am looking for a way to exclude the Talk: namespace from my replacements, so that should not be an issue. -- maru (talk) contribs 17:45, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I want to create and run my own bot that can cleanup articles called CleanBot. It will start running June 1 by me. The bot will be cleanup articles with grammar, references, NPOV, merging, no spam, language, notes, cpoyediting, images, fact checking, and others. General Eisenhower • ( at war or at peace) ( History of War) 16:51, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I want to run this bot daily from a crontab to perform various maintenance tasks. Specifically, the bot will archive WP:AfC, as requested on Wikipedia:Bot requests#Archiving Wikipedia:Articles for Creation. This used to be done by User:Uncle G's 'bot. I've run the script by hand twice. Diffs for the last run: 1, 2, 3.
Furthermore, I want to transfer the updating of three subpages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics, which I have been doing for months under my own account to the satisfaction of the members of the WikiProject, to the bot account.
All together, this comes to five edits and one page move per day. The bot uses the Python Wikipediabot Framework. More information is on User:Jitse's bot.
Finally, I'd like to hear the opinions from the experts here on whether I should publish the pywikipedia patch which enables page moves. In the wrong hand, it may lead to WoW-style problems, though I think that this is not much of an issue with the all the countermeasures which have been implemented (page move throttle and revert), and there are also many good uses of this functionality. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 14:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Permission granted to go ahead and run this, it looks great -- Tawker 06:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I would like to get input on expanding Pegasusbot's usage to add {{ linkless}} to pages linked to on Special:Lonelypages as per the request here. It seems like a fairly good and benign request but I figured it would be better to get input before putting it to practice just in case. Pegasus1138 Talk | Contribs | Email ---- 02:01, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Ok, a newline is represented by \r\n
also remember that there are other disambig templates like {{
3CC}}.
Martin 10:07, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Task: To make a group of minor improvements to U.S. Census articles. Sample edit
here.
Method: Automatically using AWB.
Speed: 1-4 per minute.
Number: c. 33,333 articles.
Frequency: Once.
Duration: Will take between 5 days and 2 months depending how many hours a day it is run.
Testing: 10% of the articles have already been changed. A similar run was done successfully earlier this year.
Regards, Rich Farmbrough 11:03 25 May 2006 (UTC).
I've been manually fixing things like cross-namespace redirects (before they get deleted in RfD, it's best to orphan them to not create redlinks) with AWB, but I'd like a bot flag so I don't have to click things each time and to not clog up recent changes. Speed would be 6-8 a minute. -- Rory096 19:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
This seems like a one-time thing (e.g. this recent business involving assume good faith). Is there anything else you'd need a fully-auto bot for? Is RfD really that busy? -- Cyde↔Weys 19:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
My bot can bypass specific redirects. Computerjoe 's talk 19:28, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Sounds good. Rory seems to know how to use AWB responsibly. As long as he doesn't veer off into obtuse formatting changes involving U.S.-U.K. spellings, or dates, or units of measure, which I'm sure he won't, I see no problems. — May. 26, '06 [06:15] < freak| talk>
OK, it's done with its first run of about 3047. -- Rory096 18:43, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Beastie Bot Updates the conservation status of species in the taxobox as well as adding a proper reference, and generating a detailed log. It's very cautious and, for example, will not update a species if it has two species names listed (e.g. Rhea (bird) or if binomial names do not perfectly match. While the bot errs on caution, it also understands the taxonomic synonyms used both in Wikipedia's taxobox and IUCN's database. I'd like to give it a trial run on 10 or 20 articles. Unfortunately I seem to have duplicated some of the effort put into StefanBot, however my bot goes further in that it adds a full reference to IUCN. — Pengo 13:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I have developed an RfA Analysis script that analyzes RfAs and looks for possible duplicate voters. Once done, it posts a report to User:Tangotango/RfA Analysis/Report. (Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Duplicate_voter_reporting_bot). It does not edit any other pages, retrieves all nominations in one XML export operation, and will promptly quit if anything goes awry. I am seeking approval to run this as a cron job once every hour so that it will be more useful than in its current, manually triggered form. (Tangobot already has a bot flag for an unrelated interwiki linking job). Thanks, Tangot a ngo 17:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I am inclined to agree. You don't need our approval if it's the one page running once an hour. We wouldn't even notice it. Go ahead. robchurch | talk 14:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to use a bot to automatically indicate in the list of Featured articles which articles have been featured on our main page. This used to be done by simply bolding the article's name; the new method uses a template and a stylesheet modification so that only interested users will see the bolding (see the source code for the page linked above for more information). The "bolding" itself is quite straightforward: at 0:00UTC, the bot would look at Wikipedia:Today's featured article to know which article should be bolded, then it would (1) modify the list; (2) update the {{ Mainpage date to come}} template on the article's talk page to {{ Mainpage date}}; (3) add the date to the list Wikipedia:Featured articles nominated in 2006 (or 2005, 2004, etc, depending on nomination date), thus a grand total of 3 edits per day. Wikipedia talk:Featured articles has liked the idea so far.
My first, obvious, idea was to run this script as User:Zorglbot, which recently got a bot flag. However, I thought about a useful side effect if I do it under my own username: when doing edit number (2) above, I can automatically add to my watchlist the often-vandalised FA, and help keeping an eye on it. The edit summary would of course still reflect the fact than an automatic process did the job rather than a human.
For the practical details, the script is written in Perl and it shares a good deal of code with User:Zorglbot. Any comment welcome ! Schutz 13:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
This is basically in response to Curps being semi away and the un-bot assisted WoW attack today. I'm pretty sure every reader here is aware of Tawkerbot2 and its vandal fighting abilities (to the point where I get complaints if the bot is offline). As such and seeing comments that WoW vandalism is up I have a new proposal for the codebase.
What Tawkerbot2A would do would be pretty simple.
If move is subject to subject + on wheels!
If user triggers above action multiple times (say 3 times or more)
or
*Block for specific amount of time (say 24 hours) if IP or 15 min if AOL / sharedip (in a whitelist) - I'm told I'm thinking to hard, IP's can't move pages --
Tawker 14:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I know this one is a lot more contoversial, I'm willing to share the code on this one around a few people, so its not just myself and Joshbuddy who have code access, Pgk will also have a copy and so will Rob Church, Tim Starling, Curps, Freakofnurture, lightdarkness) etc. I'm not putting this one in a normal approvals policy (otherwise it'd be running by now :o ) mostly due to the flag it will need / the fact that it is contoversial and am putting this up for a full debate. If you have any questions comments etc please do ask below and I'll do my best to provide the answer you need -- Tawker 05:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I have nothing contrary to running this bot. However, a past attempt from a user to acquire a second administrator account has shown large opposition from the community: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Genisock2. Some of the objections raised there (including mine) do not apply here, but others do. It could be probably less controversial to run the bot using your regular account, just like Curps did. - Liberatore( T) 11:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Go for it. That Genisock thing was another matter entirely. Tawkerbot needs a bot flag for reversing page move vandalism as well as blocking ridiculous vandals. Just this morning I woke up to an anonymous IP that had vandalized 29 times in a few minutes ... meanwhile, ctawkbot was complaining every single time but no one was awake to do anything about it. If Tawkerbot could block vandals on its own that'd be great. -- Cyde↔Weys 14:37, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
To my knowledge, there's never been a controversial WoW move. A bot to revert these so the rest of the hardworking editors here don't even have to think about it anymore would be WONDERFUL. :) -- InShaneee 01:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Absolutely not. You told us that Tawkerbot2 would not be an admin, and it shouldn't be. If you want admin rights for an account, ask at RfA rather than on a backwater like this. And I will oppose it there. No admin bots, thank you. - Splash talk 18:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
I think this would be a very useful tool. Perhaps it could be done on a trial basis, say for one week, and weekly increments added. Would that remove your hesitations? Danny 23:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, well, seeing how Curps's bot (and the lack of Curps bot was the entire reason this proposal came out, there was a need for a replacment and I was asked for one) has magically come back, the need for this bot has been become a lot less critical. Despite the fact that this really is a new bot (I just added its username somewhat similar to prevent major confusion and some vandal took Tawkerbot3 on me :( ) it does appear that people are paranoid about any concept of an automated tool having elevated access. It's pretty clear that a lot of people don't want this bot and I'm not about to break the trust the community placed in me and start sneaking stuff in. As for the scope issue, its a trust thing and if you honestly don't trust me, so be it, I don't have hurt feelings. This bot isn't the autorevert bot, its different but again, from what I've read any such admin bot will be opposed and its your choice to oppose it - I'll accept it, just don't complain about the lack of it later.
Yes, Tawkerbot2 was contoversial when it came out and no, it was other users who suggested it auto block (I said it was technically possible but I've always had reservations about it). Now when Tawkerbot2 goes down I get emails telling me that it's down and that they want it back. I really don't care if this bot goes operational or not, at least now I can go with a clear conscious that my solution was proposed and rejected, nobody can grumble about the lack of automated tools to help. -- Tawker 08:48, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I have no problem with this proposal. I trust Tawker, and I trust his ability to code a bot. Provided that safeguards are put into place (Check if it was created as an "on wheels" page, etc), none of the reasons for opposition to oppose above really address the core issue, and that is: Is the bot harmless? (I believe that it is, provided that there are safeguards); Is it useful? (A no-brainer); Is it a server hog (No more so than TB2); and has it been approved (The only point of contention). Werdna T c @ b C m L t 07:48, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm admin of the Azeri wikipedia. My bot is Memty Bot and run on the pyWikipediaBot. Bot adding interwikilinks with multilogin function, from All Turkic languages wikipedia (az, ba, cs, kk, ky, tk, tr, tt, ug, uz) and Deutsch wikipedia ( de). Memty 13:45, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Scepbot ( talk · contribs) I'd like to run a double-redirect fixing bot. The bot will run daily, late-afternoon UTC on weekdays, and mid-morning UTC weekends. The bot will use pywikipedia's own redirect.py, so there would not likely be any error. As someone who had done 800 redirect fixes in a weekend before, I know that it's a boring, repetitive task. There are already three bots that outline use for double-redirect fixing, but two don't actually do much fixing, and the other runs weekly, in which hundreds of redirects can build up. Will ( E@) T 20:11, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Special:DoubleRedirects isn't cached that often, unfortunately. I'm also requesting it to be able to do miscellaneous maintainence/backlog clearance tasks if there are no redirects listed on Special:DoubleRedirects. This is a seperate matter for the bot, and would like feedback on this aspect. Will ( E@) T 16:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Werdnabot's been archiving user talk pages for a while now, and has occasionally had a bit of trouble appending to protected archives. Would it be possible to somehow (1) Allow Werdnabot to edit protected pages; and possibly but less likely (2) Allow archives made by Werdnabot to be optionally automatically protected. I don't really care either way, but thought it might be an interesting thing to see what sort of opinions are held by the community. Werdna (talk) 04:18, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I am opposed to this. I don't think a bot should be going about protecting pages or editing protected pages. I see no reason to endorse blanket protection of talk page archives, and I don't like it. If a specific page is being vandalised, then it can be dealt with on an individual basis. robchurch | talk 23:16, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
This suggestion is semi-theoretical, insofar as a) I don't know how to write or maintain a bot, and b) I haven't asked anyone else whether they'd write or maintain a bot, but since the functionality is pretty simple, I figure I may as well ask if such a bot would be approved rather than asking someone to write a possibly unlikely-to-be-approved bot.
According to current policy, users without a bot flag shouldn't make more than about two edits a minute. So my suggestion is to make a bot, preferably with sysop status (yes, already controversial there) that will monitor recent changes for extremely rapid editing by non-bot users. I was thinking something along the lines of:
Alternatively, for a less controversial version, discard the blocking and just keep the notices. I think it would be preferable to keep the blocks, just for the purposes of damage control (assuming a large percentage of unapproved bots will either be doing something undesirable such as spellchecking, or will be buggy), but they could be dispensed with, in which case it might be better to post on AN/I or wherever somewhat more quickly. In either case, less flagrant violations of the rules (say four edits a minute) should result in posts somewhere but not blocks.
Of course, probably some people will think this is extreme. Personally, I would take a zero-tolerance policy to unauthorized bots. There's almost never an excuse to be making a lot of edits without a bot flag; it's indicative of a lack of community support. (There are exceptions, such as User:Tawkerbot2 and User:Curps, who could be explicitly whitelisted.) Just last night I had to assist in stopping User:Marudubshinki from rendering Special:Newpages totally worthless, for instance, and I know of at least one more user who I'm pretty sure runs a spell-check bot from his user account. This is Bad, and should be monitored somehow. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 03:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
This bot will use AWB and a simple script to add the {{linkless}} template to all listed orphan pages periodically. I believe this will spur the creation of links to them, distributing the work to people actually interested in the articles, and help deal with the large current backlog. I'd like to run this automatically after some trial runs for a few weeks, as this is a simple, automatic task with little chance for error. -- W.marsh 17:00, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Approved it for a flag. robchurch | talk 01:08, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Beastie Bot appears to be working well, apart from some hiccups with the logging output and run speed (py-wp-framework was meant to throttle it). There is more info about the bot above and on its page.
I'd like to get a bot flag for it before I continue it running, if that's appropriate. I welcome any feedback. — Pengo 17:03, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Tullbot will be manually operated by JethroT, assisting him to add the interwiki links. The standard, not-altered interwiki.py script will be used. The bot will run whenever a new article is added to the nl:wiki by JethroT to take care of the interwiki links. Thanks. JethroT 20:14, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
It's been well over a week since I requested a bot flag for Beastie Bot. I've received no response. So I've done a trial run and received, well, no response. I'll just keep on running it if I continue to receive no response. If anyone feels like reviewing the bot or asking questions, by all means feel free. Otherwise I'll continue running it and continue to receive no response. Thanks. — Pengo 12:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
This would be a bot run in AWB auto mode, with supervision by me most of the time while it is running, probably would extend to some time while I am away from my computer. The purpose for this bot is to implement Wikipedia:The German solution for userboxes, and it will be editing like this ( more examples) as I am doing now. The only difference is getting a bot flag to run it in AWB auto mode, with edits approximately 10 seconds apart. -- Hunter 18:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, because of the userbox controversy, I am going to withdraw the request of such use and probably re-apply later, rather...
Rather than the above, I would change it to subst user talk templates, using AWB. For example:
Because of the large number, I'd need bot flag to run AWB in auto mode. -- WinHunter ( talk) 14:08, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
I am a French Wikpedian fr:User:Vargenau (where I am sysop), here User:Vargenau, and I ask for permission to use robot User:Escarbot.
This robot will only be used to made interwikis (using pywikipedia interwiki.py).
You can see the interwikis I made by hand on Special:Contributions/Vargenau.
I have robot status on nl: and sr:, demand has been done on fr:, pt: sv:, it:, da:, ht:. Other languages will follow.
Thank you in advance.
I have developed two scripts for checking incomplete AfD nominations and miscategorized prods. Currently, I am maintaining the reports of the first ones manually at User:Paolo Liberatore/IncompleteAfD, and taking care of articles of the second kind myself. I'd like DumbBOT to upload these lists automatically to user subpages. More generally, I'd like to get permission for uploading similar reports to userspace, so that I do not have to request it every time I develop a new script. - Liberatore( T) 13:42, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
I've decided on another use for my bot: fixing double redirects using pywikipediabot. the Wikinews equivalent worked on fixing double redirects there, and it worked just fine. Hopefully, I can bring the same service to Wikipedia. — THIS IS MESSED OCKER (TALK) 03:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Yrithinnd 23:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Task: To delink months of the year and days of the week in a pruned list of articles. Sample edit
here.
Method: Automatically using AWB.
Speed: 1-4 per minute.
Number: c. 12,000 articles.
Frequency: Once, possibly followed by monthly runs if needed (in which case a public whitelist will be made available).
Duration: Will take from 3 days depending how many hours a day it is run.
Testing: Several hundred articles have already been changed. A partial run was done earlier this year.
Note: This is not touching the contentious areas of date editing.
Rich Farmbrough 23:26 10 June 2006 (GMT).
This is a bot used on my wiki, that does the following:
I will post an example of where the bot has been used over the next few days. It's worked quite well so far. -- Sunholm (talk) 20:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
NOTE: Manually-assisted bot. -- Sunholm (talk) 20:23, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
No. robchurch | talk 20:42, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I would like to request permission for a bot flag for User:StefanBot. Please see previous not replied to request above for answers to the most common questions and the talk page for what the bot does, the reson for a bot flag is that the bot does more edits per minute than allowed without a bot flag. The bot will be run ad-hoc every month or so to catch up with new articles and slowly enhanced to incorporate more and more functionallity. Stefan 23:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
This bot will run semi-automatic, meaning that all edits will be reviewed before editing a page. I want to use it for solving links to disambiguation pages, with solve_disambiguation.py (pywikipedia). I can't say what period the bot will be used as this depends on when I want to work on a disambiguation page. I already have experience operating a bot on the Dutchlanguaged wikipedia as nl:User:Erwin85Bot, which I mostly use for disambiguation pages. Regards, Erwin85 21:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC).
N-Bot has been running on and off for almost a year without major problems, but until prompted on my talk page I hadn't thought to ask for a flag. Well, I am now. ~~ N ( t/ c) 22:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
This bot will run a copy of Tawkerbot2's code, which was developed by User:Tawker based on User:Pgk's irc monitor bot. Its purpose is to help with the revert of blatant vandalism (as it's currently being done with Tawkerbot2 and Cydebot.
It will not run unattended and it's expected to run afternoons and night CST during weekdays.
Now, in the past week a pooling code was added to the code so multiple bots won't conpete against each other but rather will split the work with User:Tawkerbot2 and User:Cydebot, so this doens't represent an additional hog of resources as this bot will work in cooperation with other vandalbots. -- Drini 20:02, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
It would be nice to get a bot which will remove Serbia and Montenegro from these articles on places in Vojvodina province of Serbia. Article intros are usually written in the form XXXTown nameXXX, XXXDistrictXXX, XXXSerbiaXXX, XXXSerbia and MontenegroXXX so removing of Serbia and Montenegro from this section would be justified.-- Avala 15:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC) List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina.
This is a bot created by
WickeThEwok originally for the purpose of repairing disambiguation links for
Sasha/
Alexander Coe. It is manually assisted and will be run sporadically. In the future I plan to use this to assist with other such tasks, most often with respect to electronic music. It uses pywikipedia. I think this is important because there are many similar cases to this I have seen when dealing with music articles. Though if someone wants to run their bot to fix this that'd be great, too. Thanks!
Wickethewok 17:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC) Withdrawn for now at least.
Wickethewok 13:15, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I have Been running my Bot for a while I have:
there have Been a few comments About Edit Summeries, and user pagesand a subst'ing error in HTML commentsand Finaly a comment about my bot's edit speed without a Flag. All of the issues I have addressed and resolved. Betacommand 05:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
I see no cause for objection. Proceed to special:listusers/bureaucrat. — Jul. 1, '06 [17:24] < freak| talk>
Request flag per USer:lightdarkness #SmackBot task approval III. Rich Farmbrough 15:10 20 June 2006 (GMT).
I'd like to go through Category:Redundant media and replace instances of the redundant image/whatever with the new one using AWB. Each image would be fed into AWB by me, so if there are any disputes over whether or not it's redundant (like Image:Flag of the Olympic Movement.svg), then I won't change the usages. -- Rory096 18:25, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Go for it. -- Cyde↔Weys 18:26, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
This would be extremely helpful, more so whenever bug 5463 gets fixed. — Jun. 20, '06 [19:14] < freak| talk>
I am seeking approval to run a derivative of my RfA Analysis bot to manage the tallies and search for duplicate/invalid votes for the upcoming Esperanza elections. It will update the "/Tally" and "/Report" subpages of that page, once every hour. The bot features the same editing/analysis capabilities as my RfA bot, so I doubt it will pose any new problems. Thanks, Tangot a ngo 17:55, 1 July 2006 (UTC)