Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Lowercase sigmabot II
- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was
Speedily Approved.
Operator: Σ (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 22:24, Sunday April 29, 2012 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic unsupervised
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: Custom code using a class that inherits from simplemediawiki. It will be made available here when completely completed.
Function overview: Clean the sandbox, reinstate the sandbox header.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ChzzBot II and the lack of edits in Special:Contributions/ChzzBot_II
Edit period(s): Every 1 minute, and every hour
Estimated number of pages affected: 6, see sandboxes listed at User:ChzzBot II/doc
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): N/A
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No
Function details: This task consists of two scripts.
- The first one will be run every 1 minute, to check if there is a sandbox header on the sandbox. If there is no sandbox header, it will prepend {{Sandbox heading}} \n\n to the sandbox.
- The second one will run every hour. It will overwrite the content of all sandboxes with:
{{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}}<!--
* Welcome to the sandbox! *
* Please leave this part alone *
* The page is cleared regularly *
* Feel free to try your editing skills below *
■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■-->
Discussion
- I've created the new account, Lowercase sigmabot II (talk · contribs), for now. →Στc. 22:24, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Speedily Approved. About as basic as tasks get. --Chris 14:45, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.