Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GA bot

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GA bot

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Operator: Harej

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: User:RFC bot/goodarticles.php

Function overview: Maintenance of the good article nominations process.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): The original discussion can be found here.

Edit period(s): Every 15 minutes

Estimated number of pages affected: WP:GAN (or a bot sandbox until the bot has approval to run on WP:GAN itself), the eleven topic lists, and the talk pages of articles nominated for Good Article status.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function details:

• Updating the list of good article nominations at User:RFC bot/Sandbox 2 until there is consensus to have it update the list at Wikipedia:Good article nominations.
• Updating the individual topic lists, found at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists. Topic lists are like specialized GAN lists which can be added to watchlists in lieu of watching the entire list.
• When a Good Article review subpage is created, the bot transcludes that review onto the article's talk page per accepted practice.

Discussion

The operation has been incubating under User:RFC bot and I feel it is now time for it to be spun off into a different account. @harej 20:26, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

So the task was already approved and you just want to run it on a new account? Or did you add features compared to User:RFC bot? Regards SoWhy 20:36, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

The task has never received formal BAG approval; I am seeking it now. @harej 20:47, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Approved for trial (50 edits or 5 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 01:20, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

The trial is complete, and the bot works as expected. @harej 09:44, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Edit examples

• Updating review status and transcluding review
• Updating review status with review already having been transcluded
• Updating a topic list
• Updating the full list

@harej 09:48, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

 Approved. MBisanz ^talk 22:24, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

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