Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KuduBot 2

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Request Expired.

KuduBot 2

Operator: KuduIO (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 21:22, Sunday September 11, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic unsupervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia

Function overview: This bot will create the daily maintenance subcategories for Category:Wikipedia files missing permission, which are in the naming format of, for example, Category:Wikipedia files missing permission as of 10 September 2011, and they are created just by substituting {{subst:Files missing permission subcategory starter}}.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#Create daily maintenance subcategories for Category:Wikipedia files missing permission

Edit period(s): Daily

Number of pages affected: 1/day

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

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

Discussion

Oh god, yes please! -FASTILY ^(TALK) 23:26, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} This seems fairly uncontroversial, can we get a trial? — Kudu ^~I/O~ 21:04, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- BAN template is for neglected requests of at least a week, please read the WP:BRFA instructions. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 21:17, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Why are these created on a per-day basis? Are there really so many that they don't fit with the common per-month naming style? — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 21:17, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- If by files missing permission is meant image files, then at least daily is necessary for categorizing to draw attention to the files as soon as possible. --72.200.106.228 (talk) 08:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I see, you mean the categories, not the timing of categorizing. I think there are quite a few, but I don't know if daily/monthly categories matter. --72.200.106.228 (talk) 08:02, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, it's fine to tag them on daily basis, but I don't see the benefit of categorizing them on daily basis, because there are not that many. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 09:09, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - AFAIK, the files in these categories are tagged with {{Di-no permission}}, which allows for deleting them after 7 days. So, it makes sense to have day-by-day categories to keep better track of which files are past the 7 day deletion mark. ^Avic_ennasis @ 01:52, 15 Elul 5771 / 01:52, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - So the categories are deleted after they are emptied? — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 12:42, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        Yep. ^Avic _ennasis @ 21:18, 22 Elul 5771 / 21:18, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        I'm asking (rhetorically) because I'm really wondering if sysops need the additional backlog of daily categories to be deleted. Can this also be automated by a bot? Though I realize this needs sysop flag then. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 09:10, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        The categories are being created (and hence, deleted) daily anyways. I don't see how the bot would increase that workload. The categories also self-CSD nominate themselves once they are empty and/or past the 7 day time frame. ^Avic _ennasis @ 10:33, 23 Elul 5771 / 10:33, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial (1 week). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Alrighty then. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 10:38, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Doing... Alright, I ran the bot directly for today and set up a cronjob to run every day. — Kudu ^~I/O~ 18:57, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - {{Operator assistance needed|D}} It's been over a week now since the manual run; is the cronjob not working? Logan _Talk ^{Contributions} 00:17, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Should work from now on. Sorry for the wait. — Kudu ^~I/O~ 22:03, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed working from cronjob. Do we count one week from here? — Kudu ^~I/O~ 00:36, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Can you add something to check that it doesn't try to create a page that's already been created?, otherwise it looks good (although, I'm confused as to why the cronjob only started on the 11th?). --Chris 11:35, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. (user notified) Status? (also, please respond to my comment above) --Chris 02:23, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I actually would like to approve this task (apart from my comment above, which is a very minor issue and can easily be fixed, everything looks and works fine), however your lack of a response is concerning me. Bot ops need to respond to questions/concerns/bugs etc in a timely manner, and your very infrequent editing patterns doesn't fill me with confidence. As such, for the moment I'm marking this request as

Request Expired., please feel free to reopen it when you return and have time to respond to the above --Chris 08:26, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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