Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FastilyBot 11
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- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved.
Operator: Fastily (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 22:57, Monday, June 6, 2016 (
UTC
)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): Java
Source code available: When I have written it
Function overview: Simple maintenance task which fills in missing date
parameter for {{Now Commons}}
in Category:Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons as of unknown date
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): n/a
Edit period(s): Daily
Estimated number of pages affected: ~50 per month
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details: See above -FASTILY 22:57, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Discussion
- Approved for trial (50 edits or 15 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Initial trial approved. — xaosflux Talk 01:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- In ]
- The bot is scheduled to run daily when approved, so there's no point in writing complicated (and error-prone) code which attempts to resolve supposed tag date. Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons as of unknown date is not part of this task, because of low demand (very few files have a different transferred name on Commons) and because it'll require separate logic (e.g. parsing the
{{Now Commons}}
template). I'll consider doing this in the future if there is a demand for it. -FASTILY 23:17, 8 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]- Hm. What happens if a file in ]
- There's no other active bot adding
{{Now Commons}}
to any pages, and I'll be filtering reviewed files based on Category:Wikipedia files reviewed on Wikimedia Commons -FASTILY 18:05, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- There's no other active bot adding
- Hm. What happens if a file in ]
- The bot is scheduled to run daily when approved, so there's no point in writing complicated (and error-prone) code which attempts to resolve supposed tag date. Category:Wikipedia files with a different name on Wikimedia Commons as of unknown date is not part of this task, because of low demand (very few files have a different transferred name on Commons) and because it'll require separate logic (e.g. parsing the
{{
BAGAssistanceNeeded}} If there are no other objections, could this be approved please, thanks. Also, ping for @Xaosflux. -FASTILY 23:34, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply
]
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.