Wikipedia talk:Bots/Archive 15

message: (copied from User talk:AllyUnion.)
Am I correct in assuming that one can request jobs to be done by your bot here? I'm currently trying to orphan :Image:Flag of Czech Republic.svg and replace it with :Image:Flag of the Czech Republic, but the amount of pages it is used in (especially English, French, Spanish wikipedias) is enormous...  ナイトスタリオン ✉ 20:01, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand the difference between the two. --AllyUnion (talk) 23:34, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  For countries/regions with the terms "Republic" or "Islands" in their short name, correct grammar is "Flag of the Czech Republic", not "Flag of Czech Republic". Image names are expected to follow the same naming rules as article, AFAIK, so this grammar mistake should be corrected, and it'll be much easier with a bot. Furthermore, I've managed to upload basically all the national flags in svg format, and those should replace the earlier png versions, so the bot could be put to further use... Sorry if I'm getting on your nerves, but your bot seemed to be available for tasks.  ナイトスタリオン ✉ 00:04, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I dont mind doing it, thats if we have agreement that it should be done. thanks Martin 15:21, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  One time run request - Kakashi Bot; Text replacement 

message: I would like to request a bot flag for a manually assisted bot running on the English wikipedia to assist in fixing a variety of firearms, woodworking, and other pages with numerous redirects, and double redirects. Kaiserb 02:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You'll have to be more specific of what you plan to fix. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:31, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: When testing the bot it was used to disambiguate a number of pages from Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links.  The bot performed well for this task and would continue to disambiguate pages.  Additionally I would like to use it to solve disambiguation and redirects on specific firearm pages.  There are numerous links on each firearm page to the particular ammunition used by said firearm.  One that is a particular issue is 9 mm, 9 mm Luger and 9 mm Parabellum, that all link through a redirect pointing to 9 mm Luger Parabellum.  In the first case 9 mm could refer to (9 x 18 mm), (9 x 20 mm SR), 9 mm Glisenti, (9 x 19 mm), (9 x 21 mm), (9 x 23 mm Steyr), or (9 x 23 mm Largo) while 9 mm Luger and 9 mm Parabellum are both 9X19.  It would be nice to clean up this and other ambiguous ammunition links to tidy up these pages. --Kaiserb 05:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Approved for an one week trial run.  If no objections made, may apply for a bot flag.  Please remember to leave a note on this page if you plan to change the scope of what your bot does.  Also, please be more descriptive on your bot's user page... like listing the same information that you described in detail here. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:41, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  KaiserbBot 

message: This bot has been adding category tags incorrectly, so I've blocked for 3 hours and notified the author. I'm going offline now, so I hope an admin can keep an eye out to see if the problem is A) fixed before the three hours is up, so that the bot can be restarted, or B) the block extended if the bot carries on after 3 hours with the same errors. Cheers! — Matt Crypto 01:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, my bot went nuts. I was running it in semiautomatic mode checking from time to time how it was doing. Due to a bug (which I meant to be a feature) in my code, it started spitting garbage. Now the bot is stopped, and I don't plan to use it until I figure out the problem (it screwed up the last 32 of the 354 articles it changed, and I reverted all of those and checked a bunch more). Sorry for that, I will pay much more attention on this kind of things from now own. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:26, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the above comments, I unblocked User:Mathbot. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 03:42, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Mathbot]] 

message: I originally proposed CricketBot further up this page. It has now been running for over two weeks with no complaints, and positive feedback from WikiProject Cricket, so I've applied for a bot flag at m:Requests for bot status#en:User:CricketBot. Thank you. Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:25, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  CricketBot bot flag 

message: I haven't run Pfft Bot much in a while, but have recently started using it again. It still has no bot flag. Anyway, I got a request from Natalinasmpf to upload ~300 (actually {14 x 24}) small Xiangqi related images. They are in PNG format. I'm told they're a total of around 3 megabytes, but I have not recieved the images yet. I have source and licensing information on them (gfdl-her). Additionally, I'm assuming upload.py in pywikipedia will do what I want? --Phroziac . o º O (mmmmm chocolate!) 03:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, now she wants me to upload more, for , to upgrade the images. Am i going to need to post here for every run I want to do? It's not like i'm uploading copyvios or anything :) --Phroziac . o º O (mmmmm chocolate!) 03:46, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Dude, upload them to commons...there's no reason not to--Orgullomoore 08:48, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought about that last night, and well you're right. I put a similar request on the commons village pump a few minutes ago. :) --Phroziac . o º O (mmmmm chocolate!) 16:39, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

text: None from me. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:22, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pfft Bot, again 

message: I have made a new bot, well its not necessarily a bot as it is primarily designed for semi automatic editting, there are many features to come, but if anyone wants to see what it is like then I would really like some feedback, let me know if you want a copy. See User:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser for more details. Martin 21:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This would be more classified as a tool, rather than anything else... so long as this tool doesn't perform high speed edits and makes a user logs in under themselves, then we're okay. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:21, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It can function as a bot if you want. At the moment it is lacking some functionality that pywikibot's have, but ultimately it should be more powerful, and much easier to use. Martin 12:41, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I rather not have it function as a bot.  Unless you can built in safety functions to prevent the tool to be abusive and make certain that part of functionality is approved on a per user basis, I rather not you make it easier to make an automatic editor which may have the potential to damage the site rather than help it.  Furthermore, please ensure that you add throttles to your code, as it is an apparent dev requirement. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It does have a throttle, and also requires users to be logged in and their version of the software enabled here. I will disable the bot function on the freely available version anyway, only available on request. Remeber that anyone could use a pywikibot which is potentially just as dangerous. Martin 10:48, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The pywikipedia bot framework has some built-in restrictions to at least prevent serious abuse.  Additionally, while anyone can use the pre-existing bots available in the framework, some programming knowledge is required to turn the tool to be abusive. --AllyUnion (talk) 23:08, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I am working on making it so it only works for users who have their name on a certain page (and are logged in with that name), so that way no one will be able to abuse it at all. Martin 23:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Can we make it so that they have to be a logged in user with a bot flag? --AllyUnion (talk) 09:53, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New bot! 

message: I have created DFBot.  Right now it has only one task.  Once an hour it reads WP:RFA and creates a summary in my userspace of open noms.  Maybe it will do more in the future, but that's it for now.  Dragons flight 09:53, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for one week testing, may apply for a bot flag after one week.  Please add your bot to the :Category:Wikipedia bots, and list it on the Project page.  If you should wish to expand the scope of your bot, please make sure you get it approved here first. --AllyUnion (talk) 12:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  DFBot 

message: Martin has been kind enough to embed the date delinking regex as an option in AutoWikiBrowser. I have published its objectives and the actual regex in the hope that openness can lead to improvements. Please look at User_talk:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser and suggest improvements. Bobblewik 20:06, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  AutoWikiBrowser regex to reduce date links 

message: I was fixing up some categories after a CFD when I found AutoWikiBrowser. I used it to quickly fix all the links to the categories. I found myself making ~8 edits per minute. Is that too many for a non-bot account to be making? The "Bots running without a flag" says I should be under 30-60 seconds per edit (granted it's not really a bot, but the effect is similar). Should I be using a separate account (eg. User:BrokenBot) with a flag to do such cleanups? Broken S 03:50, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, as I mentioned above before to Martin (Bluemoose), that his tool at that speed would in effect qualify as a bot for anyone who uses it.  Users who wish to use his tool beyond the recommended limit must apply for a separate account, and run any high speed edits under a bot flagged account. --AllyUnion (talk) 12:32, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: AutoWikiBrowser -> flag needed?

message: Is this a guideline? A policy? A rule? What? How did it make it into the Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines without a heading template? Stevage 14:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My interpretation of this question is: Do you think we should have a {policy} or {guideline} template at the top of the project page; Wikipedia:Bots?--Commander Keane 14:51, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My humble thanks for interpreting my poorly phrased query :) Stevage 14:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  This page has been around long before {policy} and {guideline} templates existed.  One would think this page would be grandfathered in, but I think no one has bother to add that template to the top of the page. --AllyUnion (talk) 12:35, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Thanks. I have just edited the comments above to stop them linking to the policy template. Not for any really good reason, in retrospect. Stevage 18:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: No template?

message: Wybot is python bot by user:WonYong. it uses pywikipedia framework. it is manually used. period: 1 year or less. I can't not login frequently.
: Unless you can describe the purpose of your bot in further detail other than what you can given above, your bot will not be approved from running on the English Wikipedia. --AllyUnion (talk) 12:36, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Purpose: test. I will study the bot usage without a flag. -- WonYong 22:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  request : Wybot 

message: See Adrian Buehlmann Bot. Manually assisted bot without flag (edits visible in recent changes). Replace template calls and update list of used templates of articles. Uses Python Wikipediabot Framework. Adrian Buehlmann 19:27, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for the intention of not running without a bot flag.  Please make sure you list your bot in the correct section on the project page.  May not apply for a bot flag, due to nature of the bot.  --AllyUnion (talk) 00:03, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Object - I am uncomfortable with this user running a bot.  Has shown some bad judgment regarding templates in the past. -- Netoholic @ 12:40, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Emotional personal attack of Netoholic based on bilateral technical disagreement how to migrate a template. See  (lower part). Not based on any bad edit by me or my bot. I even reverted the template in question (template:Infobox President) to Netoholic's version which he said was a good revert to help fix a problem. I did not a single revert of Netoholic nor his bot. I've suspended my bot for the moment until further instructions are given. Adrian Buehlmann 13:12, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adrian Buehlmann Bot 

message: I would like permission to use the above bot to aid in renames for WP:SFD in the same way as Mairibot, mentioned earlier.
It will use the following components of the pywikipediabot to accomplish this:
* m:template.py - for template renames
* m:touch.py - for category renames
--TheParanoidOne 14:00, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for trial run for one week, may apply bot flag after trial run.  Please make sure your bot is listed on the project page. --AllyUnion (talk) 00:09, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Request made for bot flag. --TheParanoidOne 22:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:TPO-bot|TPO-bot]] 

message: This bot is using pywikipedia framework. I've been using this bot on :tr and :az. Mostly use for mass category creation etc. But also working as interwiki bot. My main reason for requesting to work on en is; in tr wikipedia there are interwikis for :en but mostly on :en for the same article there isn't :tr interwiki. I'll work the bot on :tr but use multi-login and when it finds :en doesn't link to :tr it will update the article on :en too. For my user name: Ugur Basak--Ugur Basak Bot 21:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approval for trial run for one week, may apply bot flag after that after no complaints. --AllyUnion (talk) 12:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess i must add my bots name to the list on project page. I'll start a test run. And check how it works here.--Ugur Basak 11:23, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: changed group membership for User:Ugur Basak Bot@enwiki from to bot --Walter 08:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Ugur Basak Bot|Ugur Basak Bot]] 

message: I have discovered WP:AWB (as have many others looking up this page) and would like to change all of the occurances of "Pokemon" to "Pokémon" - the correct spelling. "Pokemon" is never right. --Celestianpower háblame 12:50, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request: [[User:CPBot]] 

message: I'm not sure where to request this, but I would like to have permission to run a robot which downloads random pages in small numbers (say 200 to max 1000 / rate of maybe four a minute maximum) from wikipedia for some statistical analysis.  There are several reasons why I don't want to do this from a DBDump.
# size.  - I only need a small amount of data, not the whole data.
# proper randomness - I don't want to select a limited dump
# proper representation - I want to see it _exactly_ as it would be seen by an end user.
As far as I can see; the impact will be minimal since it's just normal page reads and quite slow is fine by me.  In fact I've already been doing this manually to some extent, so it wouldn't make any real difference to end usage.  Comments? Mozzerati 21:35, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as it downloads the pages while logged out, any impact should be minimal. --Carnildo 07:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  statbot - non-editing 

message: I would like to request permission to run my interwiki bot User:Vina-iwbot on English wiki.  I will be running the latest version of pywikipedia bot (have been for over a year in Chinese wiki) under the new multi-login mode.  English wiki is updated to create the backlink to Chinese pages. 
Waiting for permission before starting trial run.
--Vina 23:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for trial run for one week.  Please add your bot to :Category:Wikipedia bots, and on the project page.  May apply bot flag status after one week free of complaints. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Asking Vina to stop. --AllyUnion (talk) 19:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No longer running on English wiki.  I have sent a message to the mailing list, asking the developers to check what is going on.  --Vina 22:16, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vina-iwbot would like to run on English Wiki 

message: The bot is occasionally forgetting to sign in, and is making edits from User:71.241.248.89.  See the history of changes to Pope Pius XII.  It appears to be working otherwise.  Robert McClenon 17:00, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Asking Vina to stop. --AllyUnion (talk) 19:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No longer running on English wiki.  I have sent a message to the mailing list, asking the developers to check what is going on.  --Vina 22:16, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor complaint about bot

message: I made  for bot owners to put on their bots' user pages. This template leans more towards the fun side! :) --Ixfd64 02:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This has the potential to actually block the bot and user... just FYI. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  new template for bot users (in case of emergency) 

message: I am requesting permission for the trial run of User:UBXBot a bot that will assist with the Wikiproject Userboxes task. Its primary tasks are touching pages and mass editing userbox template includes with permission of WP Userboxes. --Grand Edgemaster Talk 00:07, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There seems to be several issues regarding user templates, and I would suggest to hold off until the matter is settled. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That probably would be the best target. I don't want any more conflict with the terrible mess that there is/was. --Grand Edgemaster Talk 21:27, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for permission for UBXBot 

message: I'd like to request permission for a trial run for a Python Wikipediabot, 79 androids. It will be human-assisted only and will be used to help automate standardization of the usage of  and other templates related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball players. android79 03:31, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for trial run for one week, may apply for bot status after. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:79 androids|79 androids]] request 

message: Used in Turkish Wikipedia (tr.wikipedia.org)
This bot is used to start stub articles with coordinate + location + external google maps links, it was running succesfully howeever the bot account is suspended infinetely by a bureucrat. I suppose that this action is illegal, and I want my right to use bot, editing only 1 article per minute. I accept my fault that was running an unapproved bot with 5 articles per minute speed, however an infinite suspension is a heavy punishment, because the bot was creating useful articles, not garbage. I request my bot to be activated to create articles again I promise not to use it too fast. 
My account:
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alperen
My Bot account:
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alperenbot
Thanks
----
I'm sorry, but this is the English Wikipedia.  We have nothing to do with the approval or disapproval of what happens on the Turkish Wikipedia.  Please go to m:Requests for bot status if you want anything done. --AllyUnion (talk) 13:26, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  User:Alperenbot 

message: Requesting permission (trial run). This assisted-bot will fix typos using Bluemoose's AutoWikiBrowser and possibly disambiguate pages. This bot will be manually run and each edit will be checked. Gflores Talk 04:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please sign your username --AllyUnion (talk) 04:03, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I will also be running solve disambiguation.py assisted bot from the pywikipedia framework on the account. Gflores Talk 06:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:G-Bot]]

message: The page User:U-571 says it's a bot but I didn't find it listed. What links here doesn't give a clue either. Anybody knows something about that? Who operates that? Adrian Buehlmann 16:56, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In theory it should be blocked, but it isnt doing any harm, if the owner doesnt present himself soon then I would block it. Martin 17:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes looks good what it did (as I've seen so far). Maybe that user just does not know what the term "bot" means :-). Adrian Buehlmann 17:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:U-571]]?

message: I am experimenting with using a script to generate summaries of ongoing AFDs.  The work in progress can be seen at User:Dragons flight/AFD summary.  Right now the only updates come when I am working on it and trying to perfect the analysis code, and I would appreciate feedback on what people think of the idea and what can be done to make it useful.  Eventually, I'd intend to have it update automatically from the DFBot account.  Dragons flight 07:59, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for one week trial run. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DFBot - AFD Summaries 

message: This is User:Zscout370 here, but under my bot account. What I want to do is use replace.py under this account to replace flag images, such as from Image:foo flag large.png to Image:Flag of Foo.svg. I have been doing this by hand for months now, but with the scope of the whole process of changing flag images, I believe that a bot should run the task. And, since I wish to use python, I have created my own bot account so that the python task can be used on this on, not on my main account. Is there is any suggestions or comments to make, you can ask them at User talk:Zscout370. Thank you. Zbot370 20:49, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for trial run & testing for one week.  May apply for a bot flag after no complaints after trial run. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:43, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, but I was wondering if I can get assistance with running replace.py. I am logged in as the bot now on WP and on Python, but I am just having trouble running the program itself. I am trying to replace :Image:Flag of Mexico.png with :Image:Flag of Mexico.svg as my trial run. Zbot370 22:27, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a specific problem? Martin 22:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am just having problem trying to run it. This is my first time running python (I should have mentioned this). Zbot370 22:46, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Kind of. I am trying to follow the steps on Meta about how to run the program using Windows, but I am still not able to run anything, since when I do the "CD" command to locate files, it does nothing. Would this be best suited to continue the discussion at my bot's talk page? Zbot370 01:07, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: NVM, I got help on IRC and things are running smoothly now. Thanks again. Zbot370 04:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Zbot370|Zbot370]] 

message: Just to keep everyone here up to date, User:Crypticbot is now maintaining WP:TFD's daily subpages in much the same manner as AllyUnion's bots maintain AFD/CFD.  The major difference is that, in order to keep from breaking the watchlist for TFD like it was for AFD and CFD (see archived discussion), I'll be creating the daily subpages by a page move from Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Seed.  Sorry about the lack of notification, but we didn't get any advance warning of the split on Wikipedia talk:Templates for deletion, either. —Cryptic (talk) 01:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What, your crystal ball broke? Seriously, good work on getting this working so quickly. Impressive. KillerChihuahua?!? 22:07, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Crypticbot]] and [[WP:TFD]] 

message: On request I am going to change instances of Pokemon to Pokémon. Martin 23:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pokemon 

message: Where do I go on the commons to request permission to use a bot? I have just under 500 images I wish to upload. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ask at the Commons...  We really couldn't tell you the answer. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  bots on the commons? 

message: I'd like to run VandalCountBot as an automated bot that would run once an hour.  I have already created an IRC script that logs the amount of vandalism in #wikipedia-en-vandalism, and the purpose of VandalCountBot would be to grab the vandal count information from my server (based on the hour) and place it in a table, as it can be seen here: [] (NOTE: The information in that table was manually entered.)
The bot wouldn't put any stress on the wikipedia server, as it would only be sending one POST request to the server every hour.  The purpose of the bot would be to show trends of vandalism based on time of the day, day of the week, and even month of the year.  I believe it will be a beneficial tool to the CVU to be aware of when the high vandalism times are. --Lightdarkness 02:58, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandal Count Bot 

message: Hi, User:SundarBot is a bot based on pywikipedia that I'm using primarily for creating interwiki links for articles in Tamil wikipedia. I've been running this bot for sometime now. You can check it's contributions. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 12:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please add your bot to :Category:Wikipedia bots and the main page.  You may apply for a bot flag after... however, I as have never seen a request from you, and do not know if any complaint has been lodged, please give your bot an one week continuous run, then apply for a bot flag after. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:30, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Forgot to tell that I've done that. I've let the bot run twice on the complete set of articles on the Tamil wiki. You can look at it's contributions. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 03:53, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SundarBot 

message: I would like to use me Interwiki.py robot at EN.wikipedia. I have a multilogin robot, editing more than one wiki at the same time. See its Japanese edits. I will do a testrun of about 50 edits at EN.wiki and than wait for permission. Dutchy-Dick 14:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked some of the test-edits and they are ok. Jcbos 16:45, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Please run your bot for a complete week.  If no complaints for a trial run of one week, you may apply for a bot flag.  Also, please do not forget to add your bot to the :Category:Wikipedia bots and place your bot on the main page. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:27, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I applied for a botflag at meta. Dutchy-Dick 19:27, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:RoboDick]] 

message: I am requesting the bot flag for tsca.bot on the English Wikipedia. The bot has been active on several projects since 2004 (at this point it has the flag on pl.wiki, csb.wiki, pl.wikt, pl.books, en.books, commons, nl.wikt, da.wiki, sv.wiki, cs.wiki, pl.source, it.wikt, de.wiki). My intention now is to add interwiki links to Polish articles to en: (I can read the languages the bot adds interwiki to). Any other activity will be undertaken only after a proper discussion and making sure the community is interested. tsca ✉ 12:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The bot and its owner are doing an extremely good job at Polish Wikipedia. The bot is also the Polish Wikipedia users with the biggest numer of edits :). Ausir 12:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Which framework does it use? pywikipedia? That information would be helpful on the bot's userpage.--Commander Keane 13:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  For the interwiki links the bot obviously uses interwiki.py. For any other work it uses my own software (written in perl + sh). tsca ✉ 13:21, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Tsca.bot]] 

message: As an admin who has started doing a lot of category moves / etc at CFD, I'm thinking of making a separate account for the recat edits.  As a first step, I've created User:Syrcatbot.  I guess my first question is: is this a reasonable idea, or does nobody care that I will have a ton of recategorizations for User:Syrthiss?
Syrcatbot will still be me sitting there with AutoWikiBrowser, and will obviously not be tagged as Admin.
I'm still getting the hang of tagging cat moves for the other bots, but if that is what I should do for all my cat moves then I'm willing to stop doing recats by hand and leave it to the bots.
Thanks! --Syrthiss 15:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason why you'd apply for a bot account is to make faster high speed edits that seemed unhumanly possible.  Also, this helps you being blocked accidently by Curp's autoblocker.  So it is a good idea to make a new bot account, and apply for a bot flag after. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, then this is my official request for a bot flag for User:Syrcatbot per Wikipedia:Bots.  I've populated the userpage for Syrcatbot, and added it to :Category:Wikipedia bots. --Syrthiss 22:24, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syrcatbot request 

message: Netoholic is running User:NetBot and modifying all instances of the  template, which was previously (TFD'd and?) redirected to .  Has he asked for permission to do this or is just more disruption regarding conditional templates? — Omegatron 19:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NetBot 

message: I am doing a school assignment where I need to configure Heritrix web crawler to retrive pages from Wikipedia. I read Wikipedia:Bots and it says that I need to approval on Wikipedia:Bots talk. I am confused whether I need to get approval for the web crawler engine.
This is the information of the Bot:
*The bot is automatic. I configured the URL to point to a page in Wikipedia.
*It should run from Jan 25 - Mar 31 2005.
*Heritrix from Internet Archive's Heritrix homepage. It is a Java program.
*Purpose:
**I need to crawl a topic to retrive the pages. The purpose is to preserve the topic for future use.
**I notice that for every page there is a history that shows the history page. But, the purpose that I am doing this is for web archiving purpose. This is to archiving one topic and show a prototype of how this can be done. Wikipedia must allow me to crawl because I need this to accomplish my assignment. Please.
The user page for my bot User:Xiaogiabot.
Please let me know if my web crawler can crawl a topic in Wikipedia.
Xiaogiabot 08:43, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Crawlers are not allowed, see Wikipedia:Database_download#Please_do_not_use_a_web_crawler, although if you are only crawling a small number of pages it may be ok. Martin 09:39, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xiaogiabot: Need help with web crawler permission