Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Joe's Null Bot 12

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Approved.

Joe's Null Bot 12

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

Time filed: 15:26, Tuesday, April 25, 2017 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Perl and one-line shellscripts

Source code available: Available on request, currently on tools

Function overview: Purge/forcelinkupdate Category:All files proposed for deletion

Joe's Null Bot is already approved (task 9) to traverse All *articles* proposed for deletion. Earlier this year the PROD mechanism was extended to allow PROD to be used on Files rather than articles, task 12 would extend Null Bot's help to those new proposed deletions.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User request: Wikipedia_talk:Proposed_deletion#Expired_file_PRODs_not_in_category.3F Background discussion on the approval and implementation of File PROD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Proposed_deletion#Implementing_File_PROD

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: About 200

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

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

Function details: Traverse Category:All files proposed for deletion once per day, applying a purge/forcelinkupdate.

Discussion

Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:35, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --joe decker ^talk 18:34, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. Reporting back, it's done seven runs now. No reports of trouble from individuals or in the logs, the number of items in that directly took a distinct turn down after the first run. Seems to be working fine. --joe decker ^talk 00:53, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:59, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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