Wikiversity:Bots/Status

This page allows bot operators to ask for approval to use a bot on the English-language Wikiversity.

Please read Wikiversity policy about bots first.

Bureaucrats are able to give and remove bot status using the Special:UserRights feature. Request are usually handled after about 7-10 days, to allow time for comments and questions from the community. If you do not receive a timely response to your request, feel free to leave a message on the talk page of a Bureaucrat.

Older status requests are Archived.

The wikicode below is a suggestion for formating a bot request:

==={{User|BotName}}===

* '''Bot operator''': {{User|Name}}
* '''Automatic or manually assisted''': 
* '''Purpose of the bot''': 
* '''Edit period(s)''': 
* '''Programming language(s) (and API) used''': 
* '''Other projects that are already using this bot''': 
* '''Additional information''': 

Requests for bot status

GedawyBot (talk | email | contribs | stats)

• Bot operator: محمد الجداوي (talk | email | contribs | stats)
• Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic
• Purpose of the bot: Interwiki
• Edit period(s): as needed
• Programming language(s) (and API) used: Pywikibot
• Other projects that are already using this bot: Global
• Additional information:

--محمد الجداوي 11:41, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

• Support bot status - does a good job at Wikipedia. However, I would suggest that the operator creates an English language talk page here or on meta, because it can be difficult for users whose language has a Roman script to use the arabic Wikipedia talk page due to the right-to-left typing. --Simone 17:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. You can contact me on my talk page on meta.--محمد الجداوي 02:31, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

• Question is this bot working on other WV projects currently? David.crochet's bot has been performing this task for several years now. --SB_Johnny ^talk 09:01, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes; My bot has bot flag on arabic WV (Although there is not much to do there; As it's a new site). I really want to help here.--محمد الجداوي 11:59, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

•  Comment - I'm noting that this bot was flagged on 21 other WMF wikis 18/11/2011. The question remains though what does it do better or worse than David.crochet's bot? -- Jtneill - Talk - c 00:35, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

I just want to run my interwiki bot here, I don't say i'm better or worth than anyone. You can test my edits.--محمد الجداوي 13:41, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

SB_Johnny suggested I be contacted about this and I don't know why. What do people still want to know before granting the bot flag? What concerns are there to discuss? -- darklama  12:58, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

James and I don't know all that much about bots, so if you think the bot is fine, the bot is fine with me. Just looking for an expert nod. --SB_Johnny ^talk 18:17, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Hazard-Bot (talk | email | contribs | stats)

• Bot operator: Hazard-SJ (talk | email | contribs | stats)
• Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic
• Purpose of the bot: Cleaning the sandbox
• Edit period(s): I usually do this hourly, but as it has a much lower edit rate, I could change the frequency.
• Programming language(s) (and API) used: Pywikipedia
• Other projects that are already using this bot: enwiki, nlwiki, mediawikiwiki
• Additional information: As stated above, I believe hourly checks for this task might be irrelevant. I could do it, though, or I could do it at less frequent intervals (best for you, the community to decide, I think?). Also, it would be nice to have a page with the content it should be reset with (protection would be good to prevent vandalism), or at least a confirmation of the text it should be replaced with.  Hazard-SJ  ±  23:13, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for your offer to help maintain Wikiversity! I apologize for noticing this earlier. In the past I have run a bot to "rake" the sandbox once per week, but my bot is not currently editing this page. We do have a template at {{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}} and you can see how it is used by viewing the wiki source at this revision: [1]. A few questions:

• Do you plan to use the bot for other tasks?
• Are you interested in becoming active at any of the Wikiversity learning projects?

--mikeu ^talk 17:43, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

As for other tasks, not immediately, but I'd request here if I find something else that I could do with the bot. As for becoming active on Wikiversity, hmm ... not specifically. I edit on other wikis fairly actively, though. I'm a member of the SWMT (and am a global rollbacker, by extension), merely suggesting that I've had many crosswiki experiences. I run bots on other projects, including sandbots on three other wikis, so that should be okay.  Hazard-SJ  ±  01:52, 23 January 2013 (UTC)