Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ClueBot III

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

[edit] ClueBot III

tasks • contribs • count • sul • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • flag bot

Operator: -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised.

Programming Language(s): PHP, my classes, you should know this by now ;)

Function Summary: Automatic archival of pages which bear the appropriate template.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous, it has it's own internal scheduler.

Edit rate requested: maxlag = 2

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: Archive pages which transclude {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}}, generate archive indexes of those pages, and fix backlinks pointing to archived sections.

[edit] Discussion

I've discussed this with Cobi on IRC and this bot is great. I'm supporting a trial run for it. I see no harm in another archival bot. This one just adds more options then the current (werndabot and miszabots). ~ Wikihermit 14:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

The only thing I don't like is you can't chose your target. For example, the bot archived to user_talk:Wikihermit/2007/September. I wanted it to go to user_talk:Wikihermit/Archive 4. I think the target=%s parameter should be available. ~ Wikihermit 18:27, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

This is because you asked it to archive to "User talk:Wikihermit/2007/September." With format=Y/F, that means the page should be in the format Year/Month. If you wanted /Archive 4, then you should have used archiveprefix=User talk:Wikihermit/Archive|format= 4 -- The bot doesn't support automatic incremental backups, *yet*, but I am working on that. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 19:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Approved for trial (7 days). I'm going to go ahead and approve a trial. Cobi is an experienced bot op who knows what he is doing, and seven days should be long enough for some sort of archival. ~ Wikihermit 21:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Like MiszaBot, but better! You have my full support for running this, even thought it's a bit of a combination of MiszaBot and the HBC Archive IndexerBot. GrooveDog (talk) (Review) 20:57, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Trial is over. Everything seems fine. -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 21:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Approved. - Good Good. Bot will run with a flag!! Reedy Boy 21:52, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

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