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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VoxelBot 3

Operator: Vacation9 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 22:10, Thursday February 14, 2013 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automated

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: When finished, yes

Function overview: Replace functionality of User:Gimmebot for managing Featured List Candidate and Featured Article Candidate approvals and denials.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Once per day

Estimated number of pages affected: 3 per day

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): N/A

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Once per day, get the approved/denied Featured Article/List nominations that have not yet been handled by the bot, archive them by adding the appropriate templates, and add the featured article or list tags to the articles if approved. Then, update the article's talk page with the {{Article history}} template. Also handle delistings and remove the Featured Article/List star if delisted.

Discussion[edit]

What happened to User:GimmeBot ? ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 22:37, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea, it stopped editing January 31st and its creator doesn't seem to be around anymore either. Vacation9 22:40, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Addshore: The bot, as well as his owner, have dissapeared since January 31, 2013. Or Gimmetrow has finally decided to leave, or he lost hs internet connection, or we have no idea what could have happened :| — ΛΧΣ²¹ 22:42, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (20 edits or 3 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. whichever comes first from when you make your first edit on this task. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 22:55, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There are a few more steps to the process for FAC and FAR closings. They don't seem to be fully documented anywhere; I'll write up the details as best I can later tonight. Maralia (talk) 23:32, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have the /bot/ procedures for FLC documented here, and the way humans may do it here. Hope this helps. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 23:39, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that was helpful. I have drafted the FAC/FAR details here. Maralia (talk) 06:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. VBot archived two FLC promotions correctly (after some error fixing) and added the featured list star and {{Article history}}. The bot wasn't programmed to add |class=FL or |class=FA to the WikiProject templates but that's a small change which I implemented with a simple find and replace. Diffs: [1] [2] [3] (manually corrected template later, fixed in code) [4] [5] [6] Vacation9 22:29, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for extended trial (20 edits or 3 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 22:58, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. It took a bunch of reverts, tweaks, and reruns, but now at the 20 edit limit. I'll only link to the most recent for each FLC/FAC closure done in the Extended Trial, but you can look in the history for more. The bot archived two successful FACs and one successful FLC. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] Vacation9 21:08, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 14:18, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.