Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Snowbot

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Approved.

Snowbot

Operator: Snowolf

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): pywikipedia and AWB

Function Summary: Replacing or deleting categories for CFD and UCFD; replacing or removing stubs for SFD; WikiProject tagging; Templates subst:'ing

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Running when it's needed, by manual "order" of the operator. I mean I have to manually type in parameters and start it works, I'll do it when I'm only and there is work to do for CFD, UCFD, SFD or if somebody request a WikiProject tagging. Running for template subst:'ing many times a day, as there are many templates needing to be substituted.

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute

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

Function Details: Replacing or deleting categories for CFD and UCFD; replacing or removing stubs for SFD; WikiProject tagging; Templates subst:'ing

Discussion

Pretty standard operations, approved for trial. Limit your edits to 2/3 per min, and limit your run to 200 edits. Report back here when trialing is done. When removing the category, try to leave a link to THE CFD in the edit summary, if renaming a category try to leave a link to everything, e.g. (Category:Old Cat-->Category:New Cat per Wikipedia:CFD/SubPage); it makes it a lot easier on someone checking up on it later. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All right. Trial started. Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk)_CON^COI on 17:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First category replace done, however I've done two errors in the edit summary, as you can see here: I've forgot to add [[:Category:]] to both of the two categories and I haven't checked that the link to the CFD discussion was cutted down due to character limitation (I tried to point at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_8#Category:American_constitutionalists). The next run ther won't be errors, I promise. Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk)_CON^COI on 17:28, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Attention. I've changed some thing in the request, so I'll wait for reapproval --> I wish to be able to use pywikipedia framework. Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk)_CON^COI on 18:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Attention (2). I've changed for the second (and last, I promise ;-) ) the approval request: Edit rate needed changed to 5; requested permission to Templates subst:'ing. Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk)_CON^COI on 01:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Feel free to continue with the trial, and to trial the template substitution. I would make the edits summaries for CFD changes as follows though:

replacing Category:Mario antagonists with Category:Mario characters per CFD using AWB.

—METS501 (talk) 01:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

170 edit so far. Tomorrow, if needed, I'll run the remainings. I've tried template removal (with AWB), category replace (with AWB), category remove (with pywikipedia). Is enough or do I need to test it more? Thanks and Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk)_CON^COI on 03:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trial run ended with 200 edits (the 2 more were manual edits on bot's user and talk page). Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk)_CON^COI on 10:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved.. Stepping in here by request; I don't see anything in the trial that raises any concerns, I'm granting approval and setting the flag. Essjay (Talk) 12:11, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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