Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Amalthea (bot) 3

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.

Amalthea (bot) 3

Operator: Amalthea (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 14:11, Monday February 27, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): C#

Source code available: no

Function overview: Remove handled quick CheckUser requests from WP:SPI after 48 hours

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Per clerk request. Current practice of removing handled requests is established, but as far as I know not written down anywhere.

Edit period(s): Tied in with other clerking, so runs every 15 minutes. I can also split it out to only run twice a day or so.
Clarification: It will only require few edits though: Judging by the last two months less than five edits per month.

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): no

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

Function details:

Quick CheckUser requests on WP:SPI are marked with {{SPIquick|done}} once handled, and are currently removed (not archived) from the page by a clerk after a while. It was requested that this task is taken over by a bot. This is an extension of the active SPI clerking task.

Algorithm:

Query current content of current revision of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations
Find subsections of the "Quick Checkuser requests" section that are marked with {{SPIquick|done}}
If any: Query content of revision content of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations from 48 hours ago (&rvdir=older&rvstart=[Now - 48 hours])
Test whether any such handled sections are unchanged compared to two days ago (except for some whitespace trimming)
If so: remove all such unchanged sections from current content and save the page

Discussion

I think before this bot is trialed/approved, it would be good to at least notify SPI clerks of the BRFA. So they can comment / know there is a bot being discussed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 18:43, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Quite right, notification made. Amalthea 19:41, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just a question, how many of those old quick CU requests are made in a given day? Just trying to gauge what the workload will be. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:12, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Usually very few, there were three requests in January and three in February. Sorry, I didn't really make that clear in the overview above, I will amend the Edit period bullet point. Amalthea 20:24, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedily Approved. Alright, well since it's such a low workflow, and your bot already deals with SPI clerking stuff (should just have mentioned that BRFA, I wouldn't have made you jump through hoops with SPI clerk notification, etc...), I'm just going to speedy approve this, with the understanding that you'll listen to clerks for feedback if something is going wrong, or needs some adjustment (if time period should be lengthened/shortened, etc...). Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:30, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

- I kinda have above, link name "active SPI clerking task", but I could have made that clearer, yes. :)
  Agreed to understanding as a matter of course. Thanks, Amalthea 20:40, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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