Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Maelgwnbot 3

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.

Maelgwnbot 3

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Operator: :: maelgwn - talk

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic Unsupervised

Programming Language(s):Pywikipedia

Function Summary:Template subst

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):continuous

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per min

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

Function Details:Substituting templates listed here. Those which it is advantageous to have them updated regurlarly (eg {{prod}}) will be checked and subst hourly and others probably daily. I will start with the {{unsigned}} group of templates. It will check that they are only subst'd in the correct namespace.

Discussion

I know there are other bots doing the same thing. But there is nothing wrong with a backup :-P and it will help to keep on top of the work. See my testing on {{lived}} at Special:Contributions/Maelgwnbot :: maelgwn - talk 07:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm a bit concerned about substitution of the {{unsigned}} group since that would require an extraordinary amount of edits and the merits of substituting the template are still under debate. —METS501 (talk) 20:52, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

OK yep. I will only do the ones in the main section on the Template subst page. :: maelgwn - talk 23:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Can I go ahead? :: maelgwn - talk 12:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — madman bum and angel 15:57, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, can you keep to the main namespace, because a lot of pages in other spaces purposefully are unsubstituted? —METS501 (talk) 14:35, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, am trying to achieve that ... should be all done in a few days when i get my act together :: maelgwn - talk 06:32, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok trial done (Special:Contributions/Maelgwnbot) :: maelgwn - talk 06:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thats fine -  Approved.. As long as you keep to the required namespaces :) Reedy Boy 20:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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