Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/.anacondabot

User:.anacondabot

Hello;
I'm asking approval to run my bot, running Pywikipedia software. For now it will be only used in manually assisted mode for interwiki links on specific articles and, more frequently, to add interwikis using warnfiles from the Interwiki link checker, as shown on its user page. It is currently running on it.wikipedia with about 8000 edits. Thanks. --.anaconda 06:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does the interwiki checker depend on the Toolserver's replication lag? It is approximately two months out of date now, so it may not be ideal for your purposes. Tito xd^(?!?) 07:47, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, it uses a list of articles with the same name on 2 languages, updated a few time a month. Someone checks if they deal with the same argument and then a bot adds the links. If the link exists will not be added. --.anaconda 13:56, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Per it's edit history on .it this bot looks like it knows what it's doing. One week trial approved. Please restrict trial run to no more than 150 pages, and throttle edits to no more than 2/min. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:38, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I made 84 edits, most using warnfiles, so I think I'll stop here. --.anaconda 06:21, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

May I suggest maybe to use the interwiki.py instead of the warnfile.py for implementing Flacus' warnfiles. It is slower, but more secure. A lot of Flacus' warnfiles are not up-to-date anymore, even in the recent lists (week 31 for example) there are pages which have changed into redirects after the creation of the file. Interwiki.py will take this into account. In the case that there is a problem this program warns you and asks what to do instead of just doing its edit without further consideration.

For example this edit [1] could at the same time have copied all those links from en: to it: making it unnecessary for another bot to pass by and edit the page again. Interwiki.py would have done this itself. Thijs! 10:29, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your suggestion, never noticed the -warnfile on interwiki.py till yesterday :-). I used interwiki.py -warnfile yesterday for about 150 edits on it.wikipedia and seems good. --.anaconda 02:07, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trial count extended to another 150 edits, can you try again with your new settings? — xaosflux ^Talk 06:28, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, restarted. Cheers --.anaconda 15:30, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I made another 144 edits, for a total of 234. So I sit here waiting for appreciated comments. --.anaconda 20:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another warnfile made additional 47 edits for a total of 281, so I can quite consider the trial ended. Here all its contributions. Comments, problems? Thanks. --.anaconda 11:31, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot approved, not exactly sure of the volume you are going after though. If you will will need to exceed 3edits/min, please let me know and we can get this flagged. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:18, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Flag approved, needs to be set, requested by operator due to volume. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot flag is set -- Tawker 04:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2006-08-22T04:18:50 Raul654 (Talk | contribs | block) granted bot status to User:.anacondabot (Requested by Tawker)
2006-08-22T04:18:42 Raul654 (Talk | contribs | block) granted bot status to User:.anacondabot (Requested by Tawker)
2006-08-22T04:18:34 Raul654 (Talk | contribs | block) granted bot status to User:.anacondabot (Requested by Tawker)

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