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

Leaderbot

Bot name: Leaderbot (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
Bot operator: Leaderboard (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic
Purpose of the bot: meta:Global_reminder_bot
Edit period(s): Daily (see below though)
Programming language(s) (and API) used: Python
Other projects that are already using this bot: Wikifunctions and some projects that do not require approval for bots that do not require a bot flag. See meta:Global reminder bot/global for the full list.
Additional information: I don't expect this to be used all that much, but the bots page requires approval regardless. This will not edit in a way requiring a bot flag. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 18:55, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Leaderboard: Thanks for the ping on my talk page. Leaderbot user rights activated. Could you perhaps update here: Wikiversity:Bots#Currently flagged bots? Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 04:20, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jtneill

Done Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 04:55, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tule-bot

Bot name: Tule-bot (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
Bot operator: Tule-hog (talk • email • contribs • stats • logs • global account)
Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic
Purpose of the bot: lua-formatted lists of highly transcluded templates
Edit period(s): Weekly (could be made less frequent for WV)
Programming language(s) (and API) used: Python
Other projects that are already using this bot: Modeled on Ahechtbot's Task 6
Additional information: Currently Module:Transclusion count uses irrelevant data periodically copied from Wikipedia to this site's data pages. A bot is required to keep the information up to date and site-specific. Somewhat confusingly, there is already a semi-active, unregistered, Wikiversity-based Ahechtbot but it doesn't have a Wikiversity version of transclusioncount.py, and appears to use the transclusion count for Wikipedia-based templates, as is seen by Template:Edit fully-protected which I have just created, but claims to be used on 7,400 pages (the Wikipedia version's count), instead of the correct 0 pages. (Another example is Wikiversity's Module:Babel which is actually only used on 118 pages, not 39,000.) My Lua capabilities are minimal-to-nonexistent, but I can scrounge by some Python and SQL, so I can take a crack at the task - if someone more qualified would prefer to do it, feel free! Tule-hog (discuss • contribs) 16:36, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

calris25bot

Bot name: calris25bot
Bot operator: CalRis25
Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic, although I do not understand the exact meaning of "manually assisted".
Purpose of the bot: The purpose is twofold: 1. Initial upload of the pages (2200 of 3200 articles pages plus about 300 REDIRECT-pages) for the project Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary (see also the project's description). 2. Switching the article-pages from the initial version to the production version by removing a heading. For more see Additional information and the bot's description page.
Edit period(s): The bot will be used twice: 1. Initial upload. 2. Switching the article-pages from the initial version to the production version.
Programming language(s) (and API) used: Pywikibot
Other projects that are already using this bot: None
Additional information: For more, see the bot's description page. 1. The initial upload will be done calling Pywikiboot's pagefromfile-script (one call per page-creation) using the -minor-parameter (= mark the edit as "minor"). 2. The switch from initial version of the article pages to production-version will use a single call of Pywikibot's replace-script for all article pages (= 3200) pages. Note: I can change this to smaller chunks for each call of replace. Please inform me, if that is wanted. NOTE: The project is ready to be launched and is only awaiting the upload of the rest of the articles, for which this bot-permit is necessary. CalRis25 (discuss • contribs) 15:45, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]