Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SDZeroBot 13

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard. The result of the discussion was  Approved.

Operator: SD0001 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 20:00, Sunday, March 10, 2024 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): TypeScript on Node.js

Source code available: GitHub

Function overview: Check remote pages for new edits and raises edit request for the corresponding local page

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Partly in MediaWiki talk:Common.js#Class-triggered gadgets

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: Very few - depends on config

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Based on the configuration at User:SDZeroBot/Gadgets-sync-config.json, the bot checks each remote page for new edits, and raises an edit request to the corresponding local page.

This is intended to allow locally hosting a copy of gadgets from other wikis. Hosting locally significantly improves performance due to ResourceLoader minification and caching. It's also somewhat better from a security standpoint as local interface admins can audit changes before syncing them.

Doing a one-time copy without a setup to track upstream edits generally doesn't work. It results in unmaintained forks which miss out on bug fixes and new features added in the upstream.

Discussion

Approved for trial (5 edits or 30 days, whichever happens first). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I feel like a trial here is mostly going to be a proof of concept, but a very useful one if it behaves as intended, so it's not a high edit count (i.e. the time delay is mainly so it doesn't last forever). Primefac (talk) 20:57, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@User:SD0001 Would the bot generate two requests if a change was made and subsequently reverted upstream within a short period of time. (ping to reply pls) Sohom (talk) 04:21, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sohom Datta Depends on how short the period of time is. If less than 1 hour, then no. – SD0001 (talk) 09:27, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think that is a acceptable margin. (I would have personally gone for intervals of 1 day, but that's WP:BIKESHED) Sohom (talk) 15:55, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. 1 edit was done on MediaWiki talk:Gadget-ondemand-WikiMiniAtlas.js. (Actually 2 were done but the second one was due to a bug, which has been fixed). – SD0001 (talk) 08:11, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Primefac (talk) 13:04, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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