Wikiversity:Bots/Status

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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: 

== BotName ==
* '''Bot name''': {{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

Add new bot requests at the bottom

Discussions are archived for review purposes. Please start a new discussion to discuss the topic further.


DannyS712 bot[edit source]

  • Bot name: DannyS712 bot (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
  • Bot operator: DannyS712 (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
  • Automatic or manually assisted: automatic (manually triggered)
  • Purpose of the bot: Tag pages that are uncategorized with {{Uncategorized}}
  • Edit period(s): One time run for 4000+ pages, then if needed will run on occasion (but rarely)
  • Programming language(s) (and API) used: AWB
  • Other projects that are already using this bot: No other wikis for this task, but lots of tasks on enwiki (and one on enwikibooks)
  • Additional information: Please ping when replying.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (discuss • contribs) 04:52, 12 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712: Please start a discussion in the Wikiversity:Colloquium to confirm which pages should be tagged as {{Uncategorized}}. Looking at Special:UncategorizedPages, I don't see any problems tagging main space landing pages, but tagging subpages doesn't appear to add value. Perhaps they could be updated with {{CourseCat}}, but the community should have an opportunity to discuss this first. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:01, 12 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Dave about the CourseCat for subpages and Uncategorized for top level pages. I'd like to hear what the community thinks is best. --mikeu talk 15:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

N Not done due to lack of reply. --mikeu talk 22:24, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussions are archived for review purposes. Please start a new discussion to discuss the topic further.


Listeriabot WikiJournalBot[edit source]

Listeriabot[edit source]

@Evolution and evolvability: Can we get a test of the bot here that we can see, or do we need to enable the bot flag first? -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:15, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig: I think the bot flag needs to be applied for it to run a test. You can see a test case below:
T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 22:31, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Evolution and evolvability: User:ListeriaBot is now tagged as a bot with a one-week expiration. Please update here if the test is successful and you want to go ahead with indefinite bot status. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:48, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

N Not done due to no activity in over one year. This is done without prejudice and we welcome a new application to suggest improvements to Wikiversity. --mikeu talk 22:19, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WikiJournalBot[edit source]

As with listeriabot, it only edits pages between the templates {{WikiJournalBotList}} and {{ListEnd}}, see sandbox tests User:Octfx/Volume_4_Issue_1. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 23:10, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Evolution and evolvability and Octfx: Can someone create the WikiJournalBot user account and perform an edit under that account? So far, it doesn't appear to exist. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:07, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Dave Braunschweig Ah yes, rather easier to apply permissions to an existing account. Done. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 22:31, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Evolution and evolvability and Octfx: I followed the previous approach, bot for a week, presuming that was the intent. Let us know how testing goes. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 22:41, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Dave Braunschweig and Evolution and evolvability: I've created an OAuth consumer at meta and ran the bot through toolforge. Successful edits were made to the Sandbox and two of my user pages here and here. --Octfx (discuss • contribs) 09:51, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Evolution and evolvability and Octfx: I'm fine with running tests as you have recently been doing and I highly encourage you to continue. Please note: "When testing, bot operators must delay 60 seconds between edits." (see: WV:BOT) If you need assistance with this Dave or I can provide help with how to 'throttle' the edit rate to comply with this guideline. This makes it easier for custodians and 'crats to review the edits as they occur. Thank you so much for your contributions to improving Wikiversity, it is greatly appreciated. --mikeu talk 22:40, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Forgot to ping @Dave Braunschweig: for input. --mikeu talk 22:47, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Mu301: no problem, I’ll set the bot back to one edit per minute. The current delay was set while the bot flag was temporarily active, I forgot to change it back! —-Octfx (discuss • contribs) 06:49, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Great, we very much appreciate your contributions to Wikiversity. Thank you for improving our site and let us know if you need additional tools to improve the quality of our website. --mikeu talk 07:56, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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