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A bot that welcomes new users, providing they arn't vandals or don't have offensive usernames. The bot uses the new user list combined with a "memory", then waits for a specified amount of time (eg. 30 minutes) before welcoming them. If the user account is blocked before the time limit, the account won't be welcomed.
67.60.52.155 14:34, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Personally, welcome messages, whether from bots or humans, annoy me. If people need information, we should make that information easily accessible from the Main Page, Community Portal, or other obvious location. -- Beland 22:54, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
I think users should be welcomed by humans, not bots. The main reason I have for this is that many users who are welcomed go immediately to the welcomer's talk page and leave them a message and/or question. If someone is welcomed by a bot, they can't do this. Also, welcomes are much more personal when left by a human; it makes the user think, "Wow, there are people out there who care, and one of them noticed me." A bot makes someone think, "Wow, they have a bot that welcomes people...kind of cool, but if this is a community, couldn't someone have taken 60 seconds of their day to welcome me personally?" EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 04:12, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
When I welcome people, I like to comment on some of their edits and point them to WikiProjects or other project pages related to the articles they've edited. A bot can't do that (without complications, anyway). -- TantalumTelluride 05:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I'd like permission to use a bot ( Mairibot) to assist with renames from WP:SFD. It would use pywikipedia bot; template.py for template renames and touch.py for category renames (I don't know if that needs approval as it's not actually changing anything, but it's better to be safe). -- Mairi 22:51, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
It looks like I'll occasionally have to use replace.py when renaming redirects; because Mediawiki now apparently considers using Template:A (that redirects to Template:B) as only a use of and link to Template:B. -- Mairi 05:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd like permission to run a bot to find and list orphaned afds, of the sort that I've been doing by hand for the last month and a half or so. It is written in Perl and will be manually-assisted. Since it will probably only be making a dozen or so edits a day, I don't plan on asking for a flag. — Cryptic (talk) 20:37, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
As requested at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Archival Bot and announced at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Village Pump Archival Bot and Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard#AN&ANI ArchiveBot, I'm planning on adding a archival feature to Crypticbot (unless, of course, the editors of both WP:AN and WP:VP, or those here, object). The way this will work is:
Like Crypticbot's current AFD-orphan task, this will be run once a day; unlike the AFDs, I won't be vetting the edits beforehand. Not sure if it merits a bot flag or not; if used on all the village pump (six, and their archives) and administrator's noticeboard pages (three, and their archives), it'll be at most eighteen edits a day. Perhaps one more to update Template:Administrators' noticeboard navbox, but I expect to be doing that by hand at first. — Cryptic (talk) 20:02, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I am requesting permission to expand the operations of RussBot to include a regularly scheduled counting of links to disambiguation pages. I have a script that performs the link count and formats the output. For sample output, please see User:RussBot/Disambig maintenance bot test. If this is approved for regular operation, I would run it weekly and direct the output to Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance instead of to the User page. Russ Blau (talk) 11:16, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | Archive 13 | Archive 14 | Archive 15 |
A bot that welcomes new users, providing they arn't vandals or don't have offensive usernames. The bot uses the new user list combined with a "memory", then waits for a specified amount of time (eg. 30 minutes) before welcoming them. If the user account is blocked before the time limit, the account won't be welcomed.
67.60.52.155 14:34, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Personally, welcome messages, whether from bots or humans, annoy me. If people need information, we should make that information easily accessible from the Main Page, Community Portal, or other obvious location. -- Beland 22:54, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
I think users should be welcomed by humans, not bots. The main reason I have for this is that many users who are welcomed go immediately to the welcomer's talk page and leave them a message and/or question. If someone is welcomed by a bot, they can't do this. Also, welcomes are much more personal when left by a human; it makes the user think, "Wow, there are people out there who care, and one of them noticed me." A bot makes someone think, "Wow, they have a bot that welcomes people...kind of cool, but if this is a community, couldn't someone have taken 60 seconds of their day to welcome me personally?" EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 04:12, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
When I welcome people, I like to comment on some of their edits and point them to WikiProjects or other project pages related to the articles they've edited. A bot can't do that (without complications, anyway). -- TantalumTelluride 05:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I'd like permission to use a bot ( Mairibot) to assist with renames from WP:SFD. It would use pywikipedia bot; template.py for template renames and touch.py for category renames (I don't know if that needs approval as it's not actually changing anything, but it's better to be safe). -- Mairi 22:51, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
It looks like I'll occasionally have to use replace.py when renaming redirects; because Mediawiki now apparently considers using Template:A (that redirects to Template:B) as only a use of and link to Template:B. -- Mairi 05:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd like permission to run a bot to find and list orphaned afds, of the sort that I've been doing by hand for the last month and a half or so. It is written in Perl and will be manually-assisted. Since it will probably only be making a dozen or so edits a day, I don't plan on asking for a flag. — Cryptic (talk) 20:37, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
As requested at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Archival Bot and announced at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Village Pump Archival Bot and Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard#AN&ANI ArchiveBot, I'm planning on adding a archival feature to Crypticbot (unless, of course, the editors of both WP:AN and WP:VP, or those here, object). The way this will work is:
Like Crypticbot's current AFD-orphan task, this will be run once a day; unlike the AFDs, I won't be vetting the edits beforehand. Not sure if it merits a bot flag or not; if used on all the village pump (six, and their archives) and administrator's noticeboard pages (three, and their archives), it'll be at most eighteen edits a day. Perhaps one more to update Template:Administrators' noticeboard navbox, but I expect to be doing that by hand at first. — Cryptic (talk) 20:02, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I am requesting permission to expand the operations of RussBot to include a regularly scheduled counting of links to disambiguation pages. I have a script that performs the link count and formats the output. For sample output, please see User:RussBot/Disambig maintenance bot test. If this is approved for regular operation, I would run it weekly and direct the output to Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance instead of to the User page. Russ Blau (talk) 11:16, 23 October 2005 (UTC)