Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MadmanBot 16

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Approved.

MadmanBot

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

Time filed: 00:27, Friday September 14, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic.

Programming language(s): PHP.

Source code available: No.

Function overview: E-mail activation codes to contributors who signed up for free 1-year Questia accounts.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): N/A. (I was asked to do this via e-mail.)

Edit period(s): Once a month or so.

Estimated number of pages affected: 0.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No.

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

Function details: Basically the same task as Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MadmanBot 15, which has run without any issue at any point, but for Questia accounts instead of HighBeam accounts. Maybe this should be extended to Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library in general?

Discussion

Cheers! — madman 00:27, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I asked Madman to do this and I just want to say that having codes be emailed by a bot has literally enabled The Wikipedia Library to flourish. Manually emailing hundreds of codes would be soul-crushing. So I obviously support the need for this, and I believe the editors who receive their account information by email are also appreciative of the work Madman and MadmanBot have done. Cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 01:03, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unlike stub creation, a speedy approve is appropriate, similar task, technically competent proven bot operator, responsive to input about bot and task. 68.107.140.60 (talk) 03:12, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's say 5 emails or 1 email cycle. MBisanz ^talk 20:30, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. – Redacted e-mail confirmations are here: [1]. Sorry it took me a while to get this trial off the ground; I was trying to figure out why MediaWiki was telling me there were less user links than I could see, but of course it was completely right as one user was listed twice. I need more caffeine. — madman 23:05, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. MBisanz ^talk 00:46, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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