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The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved.

MedcabBot 2

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Operator: Anomie⚔

Time filed: 04:17, Wednesday October 5, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/MedcabBot.pm

Function overview: Clerking for WP:Mediation Cabal

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): User talk:Anomie#MedCabBot

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: MedCab case pages, and talk pages of mediators and parties to cases

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function details: The bot will do the following:

  • Update WP:Mediation Cabal/Cases
  • Change cases between Active, Inactive, Closing, and Closed states depending on editing activity.
  • Notify users of newly opened cases to which they are a party.
  • Notify parties and mediators when a case becomes inactive.
  • Notify WT:MEDCAB when a case is pending closure due to inactivity.

Discussion

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Note this is no relation to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MedcabBot. That bot account was renamed to User:OldMedcabBot to make way for this new bot. Anomie⚔ 04:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. --Chris 11:29, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. [3] Not many edits, besides the minor issue with MiszaBot. But you can see listing a new case and notifying a user that someone added them to a case. You can also see the bot not posting a redundant notification for another user added here because someone else already had done so. Anomie⚔ 16:12, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's not quite functioning as intended. This edit removed the comments field, which we will need. A few other changes need to be made, as the inactive and pending close sections have been moved to our co-ordination desk. I've listed them below.
  • New cases, no changes, but the bot needs to list new cases both at Mediation Cabal/Cases and Mediation Cabal/Coordination Desk.
  • Active cases, listed at both pages, comments field included with opening date and marked as active, eg 02 October 2011/Case name. Mediator: Example, opened 7 October 2011 (Active)
  • inactive cases (no edits in a week but not a new case) the same as above, but opened date changed to inactive since, and marked as inactive instead of active. Case also to be listed under inactive section on co-ordination desk.
  • Pending close (no edits in three weeks or manually set by a mediator) listed under pending close at co-ordination desk, inactive since date to still be listed unless the pending close was done manually by a mediator which will then just list the opening date, and instead of (inactive) be marked (pending close).

Let me know if you need any more details. Thanks again. :) Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 20:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the bot worked as as intended before you changed everything. ;) Anomie⚔ 21:03, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Noo, the comments field never worked :P Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 22:30, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Nor was it ever mentioned until now ;) Anyway, hopefully in a few hours I'll have the code revised. Anomie⚔ 22:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I thought I mentioned it...but can see that I didn't. Sorry to neglect that :) Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 22:52, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
So "Active", "Inactive", and "Pending close" all go in the same section on Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases? Anomie⚔ 00:15, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, but instead of being in a separate section will just appear in Open cases but marked as (Active), (Inactive), or (Closing). Steven Zhang The clock is ticking.... 00:22, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New code ready.[4] Anomie⚔ 02:39, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Lets have another trial. --Chris 09:34, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. [5] You can see it notify a few users, move a few cases from "new" to "active", and update some comments. I see there is one bug where it has the "opened" date of some of the cases wrong; that is now fixed. Anomie⚔ 15:34, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good  Approved. --Chris 02:05, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.
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