Operator: S (formerly Seed 2.0).
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised. Automatic where appropriate.
Programming Language(s): AWB.
Function Summary: General template maintenance, including substing and finding and replacing.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): as needed (most likely 5am-8am EST, nights and weekends).
Edit rate requested: 6 per minute.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes.
Function Details:
I'll keep this brief: I just finished
this task and, shockingly, found after doing the usual prerequisite legwork (making a suitable list, eliminating the usual suspects, like {{WikiProjectBanners}}
, and doing the usual due dilligence work), that hitting CTRL+S eighty or so times wasn't all that exciting.
That's why I'd like to request permission to do basic, uncontroversial maintenance stuff in auto mode when possible and appropriate. The idea is that I'll still have to be there to keep an eye on what the bot is doing but with a lot less clicking. Other than that, I intend to operate under the same rules: anything even remotely controversial I'll do under my regular account, anything possibly problematic will obviously be done in manual mode, log files will be kept (unless it's just half a dozen articles) and caution will be exercised as usual. Thank you. --
S
up? 18:07, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
reply
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. for CfD/TfD work, template substing, and generic maintenance. -- ST47 Talk 18:15, 24 June 2007 (UTC) reply