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 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | → | Archive 15 |
User:Brendan OShea User talk:Brendan OShea special:contributions/Brendan OShea has been running an unauthorised spelling bot. I've blocked him for 24 hours, and to be fair I couldn't see him doing any damage, but can someone with a bit more knowledge have a word with him? Dunc| ☺ 2 July 2005 18:26 (UTC)
Bot flag requested for SEWilcoBot. Details at: Wikipedia_talk:Bots#SEWilcoBot above. ( SEWilco 07:47, 10 July 2005 (UTC))
I am currently developing a tool to help me with my manual edits (especially RC/New Pages patrol), i.e. I visit a page and tell it manually what to do with it. Planned features are: adding (categorised) stub tags, if this works I'll probably add VfD nomination (I think the current process is a bit tedious to do manually), of course with user-supplied reasoning texts. I would like to emphasise the fact that this tool is not planned to have any spidering or other autonomous/high-volume features and will not create any new pages (other than VfD discussions once this feature is added). It is therefore believed that the tool does not have the problems as listed under WP:Inherent bot drawbacks. This is therefore not a request for a bot flag (as I think it shouldn't have one; they're still low-volume user-initiated edits), but a general check for concern. Similarly, like Humanbot, I doubt the desirability of a separate user account. The bot will be tested on the Sandbox during development (providing manual reverts if the bot malfunctions). It is being developed using PHP/cURL. Your thoughts? -- IByte 22:49, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
I request permission to run User:SecuniBot to update the vulnerability counts in Comparison of operating systems.
The bot fetches all Secunia pages linked to in the article, counts the critical advisory, and updates that number in the article accordingly. It also updates the footnote that specifies when the table was last updated. The secunia.com terms and conditions [1] seem to permit such usage of their site, since their information is not redistributed, only linked to.
I plan to run the bot manually at first, and if it works well, run it as a cron job once a day.
The source is available for review at User:SecuniBot/source.
-- K. Sperling 14:54, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
I would like to run pywikipediabot with bot status to fix links to disambig pages here on en. This will use the solve_disambiguation.py script. – AB C D ✉ 02:37, 20 July 2005 (UTC) (edited at 23:27, 22 July 2005 (UTC))
As both a grammar-nazi and a motorcycle enthusiast, seeing "Harley Davidson" just irks the crap out of me.
It's not a guy, Mr. Harley Davidson. It was William Harley and the three Davidson brothers who made "The Harley-Davidson Motor Company".
I've been fixing such mistakes when I come upon them manually, but there are a lot ( [2]) to do. All I want to do is make a bot which strafes the wiki entries which use the phrase "Harley Davidson" and change it to "Harley-Davidson".
I did a (naughty) single-page test on Gay Byrne with the python script to verify that I know what I'm doing (turns out I do, on the first try). I would like to let the bot walk all referring pages.
Comments or Objections?
boinger 21:07, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi I've put together a little bot that will read all the pages linked to from the Main Page and parse them searching for bad grammar. I then take the result file and copy paste it to my user talk page. It does NOT make any changes to any pages or even have the capability to do so. I have more info at My user talk page. Since it seemed to be the norm I created an account GrammarGremlin for running the bot. My own account is the username Tubelius. Do I need to get any special permisions for running this? GrammarGremlin 23:32, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I would like to run this bot to fix links to redirects to lists (see the page for an explanation). ~~ N ( t/ c) 01:08, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I exist. I'm not doing anything automatically, yet. So my owner doesn't want a 'bot flag for me, yet. My owner will let you know when I'm ready to start doing real work. Uncle G's 'bot 11:22:55, 2005-08-05 (UTC)
Uncle G's major work 'bot ( talk · contribs) has been created to handle major tasks. The 'bot flag will be requested for this account, as it is intended, per the name, to be for tasks that require large numbers of edits. For details of current work, see the user page. For details of planned work, see Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion. Uncle G 18:48:45, 2005-08-28 (UTC)
I'm writing a bot which I plan to run as User:Cobo once it's finished. The basic idea is detailed on its user page. In short, it'll hunt out copyvios in new articles and change them to the {{copyvio|url=blah}} template. I might also add in the ability for it to detect and revert common types of obvious vandalism (also detailed on the user page), but this will need extensive testing on a dummy Wiki before it would ever come near here.
Ideas? Suggestions? Thoughts? Threats? :p -- Veratien 19:53, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Approved for running for one month testing. May apply bot flag after that. Nothing against you, Veratien, it's a great idea, but as you said, it's still experimental, and want your bot to be more solid before it applies for bot flag. I'm trying to take the stance that this page is a proposal page to run a program on the Wikipedia, and they have to have a reasonable and solid proposal for running their bot. This is only to demonstrate the proof of burden and that a user will be responsible enough to take care of their bot and not let it go run amok. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:28, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Cool idea, but I don't actually think this one should run with the Bot flag at all. It won't have a high edit rate, and it'll strongly benefit from having the odd user look over its shoulder. Make sure to also have it add an entry to WP:CV by the way. -- fvw * 12:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
I have unblocked User:FlaBot on personal request of User:Flacus. AllyUnion blocked this bot indefinitely earlier for messing up, but Flacus assured me any issues have been resolved, and AllyUnion did indicate there would be no particular problem if an eye was kept on it. If anything goes wrong, I'm (at least partially) responsible. JRM · Talk 22:38, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
I would like to run bot User:Andrewbot, which is pywikipediabot using the double redirect fixer. It will be run occasionally. Andrew pmk 02:09, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I would like to use pywikipedia's solve_disambiguation.py to facilitate my disambiguation work. I created an account ( User:AgentsooBot) for this and now I would like your permission to use it. Soo 17:32, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
I have been doing a number of what I call disambiguation drives manually, and would now like permission to trial a bot to see if it is a more efficient means of doing this. The bot has a user account ready (Robchurch-A) and would run manually-assisted running solve_disambiguation on selected items. Rob Church Talk | Desk 01:15, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
See http://pseudodoxia.flawlesslogic.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Spellbot for a practical example of why automated spellchecking is bad. This particular spellbot has produced such gems as "SpongeBob SquarePants" -> "Sponger Smartypants", or "placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba" -> "placing intimidatingly nuclear missiles in Cuba" -- Carnildo 07:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Curps is running an blocking bot which he refuses to get Wikipedia:Bots approval for. Further discussion is here. -- fvw * 08:23, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
Discussion belongs here, on this page. Uncle G 09:54:22, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
Certainly this 'bot should not be approved unless its operation is more thoroughly documented, and the concerns raised here addressed. Uncle G 10:18:39, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
First of all, I would like to say that I have no objections to this Bot, for the most part. On the other hand, a bot is a bot is a bot. I think that every bot used on the Wikipedia should have approval for continued use on the Wikipedia, and it should have its own account. Also, since this Bot is running 24/7, but Curps can't be monitoring it 24/7, there should be some provision for a couple of other trusted editors to help supervise it.
For one example of where a change might be needed--The odds are the Willy vandal probably reads many of the discussions about him, and so he now knows that he needs to throttle down the number of page moves that he does.
Also, since this bot has the possibility of false positives (someone with a broadband connection and using a tabbed browser like Mozilla can do plenty of edits in a minute), there should be greater publicity--perhaps a mention in Wikipedia:Signpost. BlankVerse ∅ 13:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
Why does the bot need to do an indefinite block? How about a block for something like half an hour, if it detects 3 pagemoves a minute? It could then put an automated notice on a page where other admins could review these blocks and see they should be upgraded to a permanent block, or unblocked as a false positive. This would immediately chill willy's actions, and a half an hour false positive isn't going to kill anyone. As admins are whitelisted, they wouldn't be caught for reverting damage. -- Norvy (talk) 03:16, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
By the way a good filter is that not to block users with "old" edits, at least I would guess most vandals register a new account and don't go on and edit (usefully) some article, then wait for weeks. Old edits can be checked by checking the oldest edits of the user. A reasonable "minimal user age" (age of oldest edit) and "minimal number of non-suspicious edits" should be guessed upon. Would minimalise blocking real editors. My 0.02. -- grin ✎ 15:27, 2005 September 3 (UTC)
NekoDaemon will be scheduled to empty categories using the soft redirect of {{categoryredirect}}. Code is in testing phases. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:11, 6 September 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 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | → | Archive 15 |
User:Brendan OShea User talk:Brendan OShea special:contributions/Brendan OShea has been running an unauthorised spelling bot. I've blocked him for 24 hours, and to be fair I couldn't see him doing any damage, but can someone with a bit more knowledge have a word with him? Dunc| ☺ 2 July 2005 18:26 (UTC)
Bot flag requested for SEWilcoBot. Details at: Wikipedia_talk:Bots#SEWilcoBot above. ( SEWilco 07:47, 10 July 2005 (UTC))
I am currently developing a tool to help me with my manual edits (especially RC/New Pages patrol), i.e. I visit a page and tell it manually what to do with it. Planned features are: adding (categorised) stub tags, if this works I'll probably add VfD nomination (I think the current process is a bit tedious to do manually), of course with user-supplied reasoning texts. I would like to emphasise the fact that this tool is not planned to have any spidering or other autonomous/high-volume features and will not create any new pages (other than VfD discussions once this feature is added). It is therefore believed that the tool does not have the problems as listed under WP:Inherent bot drawbacks. This is therefore not a request for a bot flag (as I think it shouldn't have one; they're still low-volume user-initiated edits), but a general check for concern. Similarly, like Humanbot, I doubt the desirability of a separate user account. The bot will be tested on the Sandbox during development (providing manual reverts if the bot malfunctions). It is being developed using PHP/cURL. Your thoughts? -- IByte 22:49, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
I request permission to run User:SecuniBot to update the vulnerability counts in Comparison of operating systems.
The bot fetches all Secunia pages linked to in the article, counts the critical advisory, and updates that number in the article accordingly. It also updates the footnote that specifies when the table was last updated. The secunia.com terms and conditions [1] seem to permit such usage of their site, since their information is not redistributed, only linked to.
I plan to run the bot manually at first, and if it works well, run it as a cron job once a day.
The source is available for review at User:SecuniBot/source.
-- K. Sperling 14:54, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
I would like to run pywikipediabot with bot status to fix links to disambig pages here on en. This will use the solve_disambiguation.py script. – AB C D ✉ 02:37, 20 July 2005 (UTC) (edited at 23:27, 22 July 2005 (UTC))
As both a grammar-nazi and a motorcycle enthusiast, seeing "Harley Davidson" just irks the crap out of me.
It's not a guy, Mr. Harley Davidson. It was William Harley and the three Davidson brothers who made "The Harley-Davidson Motor Company".
I've been fixing such mistakes when I come upon them manually, but there are a lot ( [2]) to do. All I want to do is make a bot which strafes the wiki entries which use the phrase "Harley Davidson" and change it to "Harley-Davidson".
I did a (naughty) single-page test on Gay Byrne with the python script to verify that I know what I'm doing (turns out I do, on the first try). I would like to let the bot walk all referring pages.
Comments or Objections?
boinger 21:07, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi I've put together a little bot that will read all the pages linked to from the Main Page and parse them searching for bad grammar. I then take the result file and copy paste it to my user talk page. It does NOT make any changes to any pages or even have the capability to do so. I have more info at My user talk page. Since it seemed to be the norm I created an account GrammarGremlin for running the bot. My own account is the username Tubelius. Do I need to get any special permisions for running this? GrammarGremlin 23:32, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I would like to run this bot to fix links to redirects to lists (see the page for an explanation). ~~ N ( t/ c) 01:08, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I exist. I'm not doing anything automatically, yet. So my owner doesn't want a 'bot flag for me, yet. My owner will let you know when I'm ready to start doing real work. Uncle G's 'bot 11:22:55, 2005-08-05 (UTC)
Uncle G's major work 'bot ( talk · contribs) has been created to handle major tasks. The 'bot flag will be requested for this account, as it is intended, per the name, to be for tasks that require large numbers of edits. For details of current work, see the user page. For details of planned work, see Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion. Uncle G 18:48:45, 2005-08-28 (UTC)
I'm writing a bot which I plan to run as User:Cobo once it's finished. The basic idea is detailed on its user page. In short, it'll hunt out copyvios in new articles and change them to the {{copyvio|url=blah}} template. I might also add in the ability for it to detect and revert common types of obvious vandalism (also detailed on the user page), but this will need extensive testing on a dummy Wiki before it would ever come near here.
Ideas? Suggestions? Thoughts? Threats? :p -- Veratien 19:53, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Approved for running for one month testing. May apply bot flag after that. Nothing against you, Veratien, it's a great idea, but as you said, it's still experimental, and want your bot to be more solid before it applies for bot flag. I'm trying to take the stance that this page is a proposal page to run a program on the Wikipedia, and they have to have a reasonable and solid proposal for running their bot. This is only to demonstrate the proof of burden and that a user will be responsible enough to take care of their bot and not let it go run amok. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:28, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Cool idea, but I don't actually think this one should run with the Bot flag at all. It won't have a high edit rate, and it'll strongly benefit from having the odd user look over its shoulder. Make sure to also have it add an entry to WP:CV by the way. -- fvw * 12:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
I have unblocked User:FlaBot on personal request of User:Flacus. AllyUnion blocked this bot indefinitely earlier for messing up, but Flacus assured me any issues have been resolved, and AllyUnion did indicate there would be no particular problem if an eye was kept on it. If anything goes wrong, I'm (at least partially) responsible. JRM · Talk 22:38, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
I would like to run bot User:Andrewbot, which is pywikipediabot using the double redirect fixer. It will be run occasionally. Andrew pmk 02:09, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
I would like to use pywikipedia's solve_disambiguation.py to facilitate my disambiguation work. I created an account ( User:AgentsooBot) for this and now I would like your permission to use it. Soo 17:32, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
I have been doing a number of what I call disambiguation drives manually, and would now like permission to trial a bot to see if it is a more efficient means of doing this. The bot has a user account ready (Robchurch-A) and would run manually-assisted running solve_disambiguation on selected items. Rob Church Talk | Desk 01:15, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
See http://pseudodoxia.flawlesslogic.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Spellbot for a practical example of why automated spellchecking is bad. This particular spellbot has produced such gems as "SpongeBob SquarePants" -> "Sponger Smartypants", or "placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba" -> "placing intimidatingly nuclear missiles in Cuba" -- Carnildo 07:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Curps is running an blocking bot which he refuses to get Wikipedia:Bots approval for. Further discussion is here. -- fvw * 08:23, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
Discussion belongs here, on this page. Uncle G 09:54:22, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
Certainly this 'bot should not be approved unless its operation is more thoroughly documented, and the concerns raised here addressed. Uncle G 10:18:39, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
First of all, I would like to say that I have no objections to this Bot, for the most part. On the other hand, a bot is a bot is a bot. I think that every bot used on the Wikipedia should have approval for continued use on the Wikipedia, and it should have its own account. Also, since this Bot is running 24/7, but Curps can't be monitoring it 24/7, there should be some provision for a couple of other trusted editors to help supervise it.
For one example of where a change might be needed--The odds are the Willy vandal probably reads many of the discussions about him, and so he now knows that he needs to throttle down the number of page moves that he does.
Also, since this bot has the possibility of false positives (someone with a broadband connection and using a tabbed browser like Mozilla can do plenty of edits in a minute), there should be greater publicity--perhaps a mention in Wikipedia:Signpost. BlankVerse ∅ 13:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
Why does the bot need to do an indefinite block? How about a block for something like half an hour, if it detects 3 pagemoves a minute? It could then put an automated notice on a page where other admins could review these blocks and see they should be upgraded to a permanent block, or unblocked as a false positive. This would immediately chill willy's actions, and a half an hour false positive isn't going to kill anyone. As admins are whitelisted, they wouldn't be caught for reverting damage. -- Norvy (talk) 03:16, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
By the way a good filter is that not to block users with "old" edits, at least I would guess most vandals register a new account and don't go on and edit (usefully) some article, then wait for weeks. Old edits can be checked by checking the oldest edits of the user. A reasonable "minimal user age" (age of oldest edit) and "minimal number of non-suspicious edits" should be guessed upon. Would minimalise blocking real editors. My 0.02. -- grin ✎ 15:27, 2005 September 3 (UTC)
NekoDaemon will be scheduled to empty categories using the soft redirect of {{categoryredirect}}. Code is in testing phases. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:11, 6 September 2005 (UTC)