Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MercuryBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was

Approved.

MercuryBot

Operator: Mercury

Automatic or Manually Assisted:

Programming Language(s): Python / Pywiki

Function Summary:Archive discussion and user talk pages.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One edit per talk page as * twice daily as needed

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function Details: Will look at a template for incoming links, and process options in the same technical manner as User:MiszaBot_III.

Discussion

Is it necessary? MiszaBot doesn't seem to have many problems with the load... Also, there are three MiszaBots for archiving, from the function summary it seems that you're mirroring all of them, am I correct? Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 14:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It would not hurt anything to have some redundancy and load sharing. Regards, Mercury 14:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, it will use my template and may look at the existing template. Mercury 15:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have you made this template yet? -- maelgwn - talk 15:16, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your userpage could do with an update. Are you using Misza's code, or new code? -- maelgwn - talk 15:16, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Updated, and Misza's code. Mercury 15:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clone of bot, Misza has no complaints,

Approved for trial (7 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. --uǝʌǝs ʎʇɹnoɟ ʇs(st47) 16:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On crontab once an hour while the template has few customers. Mercury 13:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note - Change to below, that it will not cron once an hour, but task will run 4-6 times daily, depending on load. Mercury 21:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What do we want a clone for? Miszabot III does the job fine.--Phoenix -wiki 13:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It harms nothing. Mercury 14:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

n.b. Redundancy is *always* good. Regards, Mercury 14:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

that and I think shadowbot3 will soon stop editing. β^_command 14:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Status on approval? Mercury at 05:59, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved; the bot shall run with a flag. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 10:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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