Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EarwigBot 6
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Approved.
EarwigBot I 3
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Operator: The Earwig
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Python, Pywikipedia
Function overview: The bot will assist
WikiProject Presidential Elections by tagging certain articles that are within the scope of the project with {{WikiProject United States presidential elections
}}.
Edit period(s): One time.
Estimated number of pages affected: Approximately 400 pages, per User:EarwigBot I/Source#Pages_list.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function details: A while back, a user
WikiProjectBanners}}. Although there are other bots that do this kind of task
, I'd prefer to do this myself. The code is simple, and the task is straightforward.
Discussion
Approved for trial (30 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Looks straight-forward. – Quadell (talk) 18:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Trial complete. I made some stupid errors, because I forgot that the WikiProject banner shell has redirects, so there were a few of these, but nothing major. Everything else seems fine, as well as the auto-assessment. Logs are at User:EarwigBot I/Logs/Task 5. The Earwig (Talk | Contribs) 20:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Approved. MBisanz talk 02:02, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
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