Wikipedia talk:Bots/Archive 6

message: A summary of its tasks can be found on its user page and whether or not it is working at this time: Allyunion -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:36, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary of tasks 

message: Will be using pywikipediabot, especially replace.py and of course under supervision adhering to bot best practices and speed limits. The purpose is to maintain the various Municipalities_of_Norway: Many of the articles need a cleanup. A uniform use of the new infoboxes will help. Based on the standard numbering of municipalities, some statistical information can be added automagically. -- Egil 11:32, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot for maintaining Municipalities and Counties of Norway 

message: Can someone make a bot to go through the 366 days of the year and put links into the BBC's on this day page?  They come in the format http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/month/date/ replacing month with the month, and date with a numerical date, not including a leading zero, 9 not 09. Dunc|☺ 22:39, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think you need a bot for that... really...  See my comment on your talk page. -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:10, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: This has or is being handled under User:Kakashi Bot maintained and run by me.  Since this is a one time 'run', I don't think a bot flag is necessary. -- AllyUnion (talk) 19:09, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  bot request 

message: I am responding to a request given at Wikipedia:Bot requests for a bot that cleans out the sandbox.  The request is that the bot should clean the sandbox every 6 hours.
The following sandboxes will be cleaned every 6 hours:
* Wikipedia:Sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (Editing)/sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting)/sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)/sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (Related site links)/sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (External links)/sandbox
* Wikipedia talk:Tutorial (Talk pages)
This bot will be running under User:Sandbot, and using either Template:Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading) or a similar template. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:27, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This also includes all talk pages, except for Wikipedia talk:Tutorial (Talk pages).  Each sandbox will be cleaned separately 15 minutes apart from each other. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:56, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Responding to Sandbot request 

message: Recently there have been some 'general' articles on VfD pages to establish consensus on inclusion (or exclusion) of certain groups of articles. It would be useful to have the link (or {include}) to those articles placed on the top of each day's VfD page. I've been doing this manually but would prefer the VfD bot to handle this; would that be ok? Radiant! 11:40, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
: Should there be no objection in 7 days from Radiant's request, I will add the feature to the bot. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:17, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VfD newpage bot

message: Ok, this is my first attempt at a bot, so if I seem to be missing anything, let me know. The main reason I created this bot is that I wanted to have a bot that changes flag images. What I mean by that is replacing one flag image from here, with another, which can be either on here or at the Commons. An example would be (which will be a test run if approved), is switching from :Image:Belarus flag large.png to :Image:Flag of Belarus.png. Not only this will free up the many images we use here at Wikipedia EN, this will also do the work that I have done by hand for months. And, if we ever go to svg conversion, this bot can be used to help in the conversion. While I am not sure how long it will take before it can be approved, but I am an idiot in dealing with programming and could use some help on trying to make the bot work. Zach (Sound Off) 06:52, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you re-uploading the images to rename them, or are you just changing which image is shown in articles? —Cryptic (talk) 07:12, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Changing what is shown in the articles. If there is any images to upload, I will do it myself manually. But, as I post on User:Zbot, I crashed Python and I am an idiot when coming to programing. In order for this bot to work, I probably might have to ask for someone to code it for me. Zach (Sound Off) 07:27, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  And since we can use SVG files, the bot can also be created (by someone else, since I gave up at coding) to help do the image conversion. Zach (Sound Off) 21:10, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The discussion has moved to Wikipedia:Bot requests. -- Beland 04:16, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zbot 

message: Will be using pywikipediabot, especially replace.py and of course under supervision adhering to bot best practices and speed limits. The purpose is to maintain the various Municipalities_of_Norway: Many of the articles need a cleanup. A uniform use of the new infoboxes will help. Based on the standard numbering of municipalities, some statistical information can be added automagically. -- Egil 11:32, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot for maintaining Municipalities and Counties of Norway 

message: User:Matt Crypto (bot) is doing a simple, valid change every midnight. I don't think the bot flag should be set (since the cryptography wikireader always needs more attention ;)) but it ought to be put on the list of bots. Not putting it in myself because I'm not sure the bot is allowed. :) r3m0t 11:59, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
:The bot flag in my opinion is meant to avoid a situation where the bot clutters up the recent changes. If a bot makes just a single change or a few changes every day, a bot flag seems unnecessary. - Andre Engels 08:52, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think a bot flag is unnecessary (unless there's some other reason apart from filtering RC). I requested permission to run this script last December at Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Archive_4#Trivial_daily-update_bot. — Matt Crypto 11:31, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple Matt Crypto bot? 

message: I am responding to a request given at Wikipedia:Bot requests for a bot that cleans out the sandbox.  The request is that the bot should clean the sandbox every 6 hours.
The following sandboxes will be cleaned every 6 hours:
* Wikipedia:Sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (Editing)/sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting)/sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)/sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (Related site links)/sandbox
* Wikipedia:Tutorial (External links)/sandbox
* Wikipedia talk:Tutorial (Talk pages)
This bot will be running under User:Sandbot, and using either Template:Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading) or a similar template. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:27, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This also includes all talk pages, except for Wikipedia talk:Tutorial (Talk pages).  Each sandbox will be cleaned separately 15 minutes apart from each other. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:56, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Responding to Sandbot request 

message: Recently there have been some 'general' articles on VfD pages to establish consensus on inclusion (or exclusion) of certain groups of articles. It would be useful to have the link (or {include}) to those articles placed on the top of each day's VfD page. I've been doing this manually but would prefer the VfD bot to handle this; would that be ok? Radiant! 11:40, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
: Should there be no objection in 7 days from Radiant's request, I will add the feature to the bot. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:17, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VfD newpage bot

message: As per discussion on Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion, I'll be making WP:VFD into a list of day links probably during the day (UTC) on Sunday 13 March 2005. Wikipedia:Votes for deletion (full list) (or WP:VFDF) will be the full list with all day pages transcluded for a multi-megabyte monster page. I've left notes on Wikipedia talk:Bots and User talk:AllyUnion about the change - David Gerard 09:41, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No consensus has been developed over this decision.  I object until I understand what is being trying to solve / accomplished. -- AllyUnion (talk) 19:32, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VFD into a list of day links

message: (copied from my and AllyUnion's talk pages —Korath (Talk) 01:36, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC))
Also, as long as I'm here, could I trouble you to tweak Vfdbot to add a  or something similar to the previous day's page when updating the list of days currently transcluded into WP:VFD?  I catch two or three vfds a week being added to the first day listed on vfd instead of the current day, and sometimes two or three a day where they're added to yesterday's page just after midnight UTC.  The latter aren't a problem if they're missed (and I don't bother to correct them even when I see them), but the former certainly are. —Korath (Talk) 00:28, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
:I'll tweak VFD Bot later.  I'm kind of suppose to be studying for my finals.  ^^;;;  Do me a favor and post in the talk page for WP:BOTS to make sure it gets approval. --AllyUnion (talk) 00:55, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:VFD Bot|VFD Bot]] extension 

message: Moved to: User:AllyUnion/NekoDaemon.  Another request will be placed once the bot is completed. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:29, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories for deletion / category population / category depopulation bot assistant 

message: I am modifying Sandbot to reinforce the existence of the header every 30 minutes (all sandboxes).  The main sandbox will be cleaned every 12 hours instead of every 6 hours. -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:36, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor Sandbot change 

message: Manually archiving DYK items to Wikipedia:Recent additions is still managable, but can anyone with more knowledge about bots tell me if it's possible to automate the archiving process (also outlining the pics correctly).
It should:
*Archive all but the latest 2 updates from the section on DYK talk to Recent additions.
*Archive the oldest 50 items including pics to a free numbered subpage in Recent additions.
*Warn users about their articles being featured. 
I'd also love for template updates to be automated during weekends and holidays, when no else seems to do them, but that may not be possible because that would require the bot having admin access. - Mgm|(talk) 10:11, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
: The pywikipediabot framework doesn't have anything for page moves at the moment as far as I am aware... -- AllyUnion (talk) 14:37, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Section?  I'm not quite certain you're driving at.  It would help me if you detail the exact archiving process and what text your moving around. -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:23, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: DYK Bot?

message: The purpose of this bot is to move nominations with a signed initial nomination to the 14 day holding period after 14 days have been passed. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:31, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Running under User:Kurando-san at the moment. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:59, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates archival bot 

message: Update Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/Yesterday every day and put yesterday's transinclude on the page. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:31, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a task to [[User:VFD Bot|VFD Bot]] 

message: User:NekoDaemon has been assigned to automatically do the following things:
# Add new CFD Day Transinclude at the same time as the VFD Bot
# Create the new CFD Day Transinclude at the same time as the VFD Bot
# Close the CFD Day Transinclude page at the same time as the VFD Bot
-- AllyUnion (talk) 05:44, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  CFD Archival Bot 

message: I have created Template:cleanup-date to replace Template:cleanup.  It is intended to make it easier to use :Category:Wikipedia cleanup in a first in, first out fashion.  I would like to use Pearle to change cleanup tags to cleanup-date tags.  The first data source would be the per-month subpages of Wikipedia:Cleanup, which I will analyze offline and feed to the bot.  For all remaining uses of the cleanup tag, I would have the bot look at previous versions at one-month intervals, to determine the month in which the tag was originally assigned. -- Beland 02:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using Pearle for cleanup tags 

message: Due to the change of how VFD is run, the VFD Bot will perform the updates on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion (long form) as before, and perform the new styled updates on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:58, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  VFD Bot functionality change 

message: I've written a program that crawls the offline dump looking for paragraphs that end without punctuation. If I run this to help me find articles to (manually) edit, does that count as a bot? Do I have to limit my manual edits to some rate? Brighterorange 14:21, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to me that if it does neither automated access to the live Wikipedia articles nor automatic modification, it isn't a bot. --Carnildo 17:54, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hooray! Brighterorange 18:53, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  PeriodBot