TestWiki:Bot approval requests

Bot Approval Requests

What is this page used for? If you want to submit a request to run a bot on this wiki, you've come to the right place. If you're looking for administrator permissions, see here.

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Request

Examknow (Status: Done)

• User: Examknow ( talk · contribs · logs )
• Bot name: EkWikiBot
• Bot function: Blocks and unblocks users, deletes pages, gets user edit count, and has a logbot function. The bot is controlled from an IRC interface. For more information, please see User:EkWikiBot/Commands.
• Reason for requesting: EkWikiBot could be a very useful tool for administrators on testwiki. For those wanting to see it in action, the bot currently resides in Template:Freenode and can join other channels on request. RhinosF1 has been active in the testing and development of the bot and can attest to its usefulness and security.

Examknow (talk) 17:24, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

LGTM, if no one does it before then and there’s no objections, I’ll process it when I sort out the next code release. Happy for this to be inactive-exempt as well. RhinosF1 (talk) 17:32, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Approved for non-test deletions, blocking and unblocking. RhinosF1 (talk) 11:57, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Naleksuh (Status: Open)

• User: Naleksuh ( talk · contribs · logs )
• Bot name: Naleksuh BOT
• Bot function: Clears sandbox, almost all wikis have something that does this. Can also revert other tests as needed.
• Reason for requesting: Helps with taskgoal

Naleksuh (talk) 08:01, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

In the unflagged run [1] - it was set to clear after one minute. This time can be increased to something like two hours as needed. Naleksuh (talk) 08:01, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

That diff looks good to me. Is the source for your bot public/open source at all (just curious)? Given the low activity in this sandbox, I would think something like checking and clearing the sandbox every 12-24 hours would be sufficient (to minimize the number of checks your bot has to make). Assuming the bot's locally hosted on a Raspberry Pi or something? One other question I had, is this bot setup just to check and clear, at a prescribed interval, sandbox, and could it easily be set up to also check any */sandbox* pages in User: namespace, or any pages which use {{sandbox heading}} other than {{sandbox heading}} itself? Dmehus (talk) 08:31, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

@Dmehus: Once flagged, it will be running on a cloud windows vps (although is on my local pc for testing currently). It processes recent changes edits within one second of them happening, but starts a timer that requires no edits on the sandbox for one hour at which point its cleared. This could be applied to other pages (preferrably by title, but by contents as well), although I wouldn't want it to reset sandboxes in userspace. Naleksuh (talk) 09:10, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

@Naleksuh: Thanks for the reply. Do you already have a cloud-based VPS for which you are currently paying? Hopefully it doesn't consume too many resources for your own VPS. This may possibly be a candidate for one of the Miraheze bot servers; I'm not sure. RhinosF1 would be able to say definitively. Good point on the userspace sandbox clearing—users may not want their sandboxes cleared. From my less technical perspective, this all SGTM in terms of the proposed bot's clear use case and how it operates. Dmehus (talk) 09:13, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

MirahezeBots is currently only accepting bots from within users with access to the previous infrastructure or that were hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge as at the service launch. See here for more information. RhinosF1 (talk) 09:21, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

@RhinosF1: Is this to imply that I can't run any bot without using this requirements, or just to use Miraheze servers? Is running such a bot under my own end any problem? Naleksuh (talk) 19:28, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

I was replying to Dmehus. I am happy to approve this assuming no one raises concerns. RhinosF1 (talk) 21:00, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Approved. RhinosF1 (talk) 12:15, 15 July 2020 (UTC)