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:

== 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

• 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)

@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)

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)

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

Listeriabot

• Bot name: ListeriaBot (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
• Bot operator: Magnus Manske (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account) (Though Evolution and evolvability (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account) will supervise on this wiki)
• Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic
• Purpose of the bot: Formatting up wikitables based on sparql queries
• Edit period(s): 1 week test, (if no problems, indefinitely)
• Programming language(s) (and API) used:
  • Languages = Rust
  • API = https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php
  • Repository = magnusmanske/listeria_rs)
• Other projects that are already using this bot: commons, meta, wikidata, wikispecies, ,43 languages of wikipedia (incliuding english) - full list
• Additional information: The bot creator (Magnus Manske) isn't good at replying to talkpage comments or emails, but does seem to fix raised issues reasonably rapidly. My main discomfort is that I don't speak Rust, so can't directly troubleshoot any issues. I've tested the bot quite extensively on other wikis and have found it to be very reliable (at the very least, it has only ever edited pages with the {{wikidata list}} template, so there is minimal risk of disruption). My very minimal test here was to run this command on my sandbox which caused ListeriaBot to apply for an account, but it has not attempted to make an edit. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 11:13, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

@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)

@Dave Braunschweig: I think the bot flag needs to be applied for it to run a test. You can see a test case below:

• Testcase on Wikiversity (click "Update now" to test)
• Testcase on Meta (showing what the result should be)

T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)^talk 22:31, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

@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)