Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OutreachDashboardBot

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.

OutreachDashboardBot

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Operator: Xaosflux (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search); also Sage (Wiki Ed)

Time filed: 02:40, Thursday, January 24, 2019 (UTC)

Function overview: Account creation for rate-limited events using the Programs & Events Dashboard.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Multiple

Source code available: N/A

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_permissions#Proposal:_Bot_for_outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org_creations

Edit period(s): On-Demand

Estimated number of pages affected: 0 this bot will not "edit". For this task it will only create accounts. Future plans (with their own BRFA's) could include leaving a welcome message when creating an account and/or setting temporary confirmed status.

Namespace(s): Special:

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): N/A

Function details: This bot will be used to create accounts for users who register via the meta:Programs & Events Dashboard. The dashboard is currently integrated here at enwiki, this the request here instead of at meta. This account will only be used to create accounts approved by an event coordinator, and only when the coordinator is unable to directly create the account due to rate limiting. The coordinators account name will appear in the creation log notes for such accounts as well.

Discussion

For trial, bot will need +confirmed, +eventcoordinator. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:41, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

• @Xaosflux: Approved for trial (25 accounts). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.. Flagging confirmed & eventcoordinator once this edit is saved (for ES). --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:58, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

  (I'm helping mentor TheSandDoctor offwiki) I think that an initial short trial the right way to go. We can chase out any potential technical issues this way - and as this is a very trusted editor, and an experienced botop, we should be able to quickly approve if all goes well. SQL^{Query me!} 05:06, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

  Thank you, will report back once trials are able to show results - next step are some dashboard back-end updates that Sage (Wiki Ed) will do. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:40, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

  Hey all. Jumping in here as I helped add this feature. Sage and I just set it up so that outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org will use the OutreachDashboardBot as a backup account creator when the original account is throttled. You can see the first accounts created with a regular account here and the OutreachDashboardBot working here.--Wes (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:32, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

• See example of accounts made: Special:Log/OutreachDashboardBot. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:39, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

  The bot took over once the throttle kicked in, per the design, accounts made prior to throttle: here. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:41, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Trial complete. (note, this code is still in production - we can rip it out if this is denied or causing issues while this is pending closure). The tests were successful. The second trial run was a batch of 8 users, the first 4 were created by the requester directly (see log here) at which point the normal throttle was in affect so the bot took over here: Special:Log/OutreachDashboardBot. Please let me know if there is anything else you would like to see on this @TheSandDoctor and SQL:. Thank you! — xaosflux ^Talk 16:53, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

• There are discussions on English Wikipedia and Meta-Wiki about this bot and tool and function. I am happy to see this advance. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:38, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

 Approved. SQL^{Query me!} 18:16, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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