Wikipedia talk:Bots/Archive 7

message: Old discussion moved to User talk:Grammarbot. r3m0t 11:05, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
Moved the rest to User talk:Grammarbot. -- Beland 05:01, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammarbot 

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 updating NekoDaemon to perform a log index update on the last day moved to the log.  It will basically insert a index link between the previous CFD log day and the next for all pages no longer transincluded on WP:CFD. -- AllyUnion (talk) 23:34, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NekoDaemon Log Indexing 

message: I'd like to use Gdrbot to automate tedious tasks — in particular, fixing links to disambiguation pages and fixing double redirects. I plan to only use this bot interactively, never unattended. Gdr 20:19, 2005 May 11 (UTC)
* Support - the automated fixing of double redirects would help the Wiki Syntax Project, which currently lists all the double-redirects (among other things) every few months, where they're subsequently fixed by hand. Also I imagine the disambig pages de-linkage would be of assistance to the Disambiguation pages with links project. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 00:36, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Gdrbot|Gdrbot]] 

message: According to User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/msg, a lot of transclusions need to have  converted to . I can easily modify Pearle to do this, and have her fix all the articles on that list.  Please let me know if there are any concerns to doing so. -- Beland 05:41, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I approve. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:32, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pearle for msg: removal 

message: I look after Special:Newpages in Russian Wikipedia (categories, interwikies, stubs, cleanup, copyvio...) and i want to use interwiki bot (pywikipediabot, warnfile.py) for make backlink between Russian and English Wikipedias under my manual direct control (about 20 edits per day). 
Can I add it (:en:User:Roboto_de_Ajvol) to "Bots running without a flag" list?
--ajvol 13:39, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: So, if nobody against it, let do it. --ajvol 15:42, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Backlink bot for ru 

message: I am requesting approval to use User:RussBot to run the solve_disambiguation.py script, strictly under manual control, to replace links to disambiguation pages. Russ Blau (talk) 15:43, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
: You may run your bot for one week without a bot flag.  Please keep all your "bot edits" under User:RussBot so that at the end of the week, the edits can be reviewed.  If, at any time, someone makes complaint about it during the week, that comment should be linked or copied on to here as an objection. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem.  Should no one make any complaint here or your user page or the bot's user page (which I see you redirected to your own page anyway)... you may apply for bot status on June 3. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:06, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  RussBot 

message: VFD Bot has been requested to update Wikipedia:Nooks and corners of Wikipedia that should be frequented (WP:NAC) the same way it updates the VFD page. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:29, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  VFD Bot extension task 

message: Hello all, I'm requesting authorization (if possible, bot flag too) to :pt:Usuário:NTBot (pywikipediabot), for the unique purpose of passing the warnfiles generated at pt:wp. We have lots of pages without backlinks, so this would help a lot. Do you agree? Nuno Tavares 28 June 2005 23:29 (UTC)
: Approved running for NTBot for one week.  If no complaints have been cited here, Nuno Tavares's talk page, or the bot's talk page, then Nuno Tavares may apply for bot status. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:11, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NTBot: authorization 

message: I am also requesting authorization. I am planing to use only autonomous warnfiles generated at pt.wp, mainly articles that only exist there and here. --E2mb0t 03:47, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not approved for running or bot flag until bot has an owner account --AllyUnion (talk) 07:11, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  This user account would be OK. Thank you. --E2mb0t 03:47, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

text:  I mean, E2mb0t is the bot, E2m is the user account. --E2m 22:18, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for that clarification.  I approve for one week "test" run.  If no one complains within the "test" run, you may apply for the bot flag. --AllyUnion (talk) 04:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  E2mb0t 

message: I'd like to run a copy of pywikipedia here, under the username Pfft Bot. The first use would be running solve_disambiguation to help with, well, solving disambiguations. I already have some experience with pywikipedia, from using it on my own wiki. What do you all think of it? --Phroziac (talk) 18:26, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I presume, it will run manually assisted? --AllyUnion (talk) 01:32, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it will. --Phroziac (talk) 22:51, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  You may run your bot.  I don't personally think it needs a bot flag, because it is manually assisted, however you may apply for one after one week. --AllyUnion (talk) 04:21, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, but you confused me now. I thought it was ok to run the bot after a week of no one complaining about the request, so I already ran it a few times, starting 6 days ago. *blush* Was I not supposed to do that? --Phroziac (talk) 01:41, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, the way I've been asking users to prove that their bot is harmless is to run a test run of a full week.  If no one complains in a specified time frame, they can continue on to use it and apply for a bot flag. --AllyUnion (talk) 04:41, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Pfft Bot|Pfft Bot]] 

message: User:Shake your Willy... appears to be an unauthorised bot, moving vast numbers of categories to "Category On Wheels". They've been reverted. I can't see where the most appropriate place to report vandalism by bots. Can someone point me in the right direction, please? KeithD (talk) 18:48, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Vandalism in progress and Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.  --Carnildo 19:32, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks a lot. I see someone else has already listed it anyway. KeithD (talk) 19:41, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unauthorised 'Willy On Wheels' Bot 

message: I would like to run this bot for WP:CFD related tasks, similiar to Pearle. I am actually going to be using the Pearle code, which is tried and tested for doing specific Cfd tasks.  I do quite a lot of the Cfd tasks manually, and am around often enough to use it, rather than requesting permission (to have another bot perform the task).  I have not started using the bot, and am just setting it up. I plan on working with Beland to get the bot going for these tasks.  ∞Who?¿? 03:17, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Approved for one week trial run.  May apply for a bot flag afterward. --AllyUnion (talk) 17:35, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Temporarily inactive due to power outage from hurricane Katrina. Will hopefully be running by next week. :(  ∞Who?¿? 20:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Arbritrary note, still w/o net access, but plan to be back running soon.  ∞Who?¿? 01:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Whobot|Whobot]] 

message: user:GrinBot, updates interlang links between hu: and en:. Hu entries only. Test run would probably consist only one run now, updating mostly year entries. -grin ✎ 20:05, 2005 August 31 (UTC)
:Test run was done on 1010s and 1020s, looks fine. (Was done as myself to prevent complaints... *shrug*). --grin ✎ 20:11, 2005 August 31 (UTC)
:: Permitted test run for a week, may apply for bot status if no complaints are made. --AllyUnion (talk) 04:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  GrinBot 

message: Newest bot to my collection... it is to support the rename situation at Votes for deletion to Articles for deletion. --AllyUnion (talk) 07:36, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  AFD Bot 

message: Sandbot has been modified to allow manual enforcement of headers on Wikipedia:Sandbox, Wikipedia talk:Sandbox, & Wikipedia:Introduction.
Additionally, the sandbox has user controlled resets of the following pages:
* Wikipedia:Test, Wikipedia talk:Test
* Template:X1
* Template:X2
* Template:X3
* Template:X4
* Template:X5
* Template:X6
* Template:X7
* Template:X8
* Template:X9
--AllyUnion (talk) 10:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: New modifications now allow a big reset button on all sandboxes. --AllyUnion (talk) 17:30, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sandbot modifications