Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ChristieBot 3

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Speedily Approved.

ChristieBot 3

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

Time filed: 17:25, Sunday, August 4, 2024 (UTC)

Function overview: Write about 200 pages in my userspace for FAC statistics

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: User:ChristieBot/Source code will include the code when it is written

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time run.

Estimated number of pages affected: 200

Namespace(s): Will only edit (create) subpages of User:Mike Christie/FACstats monthly data

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): N/A

Function details: ChristieBot maintains a database of statistics relating to FAC. I have modified its functionality so that it derives its data from monthly data files created as subpages of User:Mike Christie/FACstats monthly data. I would like to create about 200 more pages under that page holding monthly FAC data back to August 2006. Aside from being a more visible repository of the data this will allow others to review and check the accuracy of the statistics and serve as a backup in case something happens to the MariaDB database on toolforge that currently holds this data.

I am not sure if BAG approval is needed since these edits will be entirely in my name space but thought I should check. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:25, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And I've just realized that it would also be good if this approval could apply to future creations of these subpages. That would be a different process -- rather than create the page from the database, it would create it from a scan of the FAC archives. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:36, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Speedily Approved. Since this is just going to be editing in your userspace, I see no reason that we need to run a trial; it seems relatively uncontroversial as well. Primefac (talk) 23:38, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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