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Revision as of 15:35, 27 February 2010 by Adambro (talk | contribs) (→Comments: +cmt)
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All bots must be approved here to run regardless of if they need a bot flag. Non-approved bots may be blocked at an administrator's discretion. This may be for reasons such as flooding recent changes. The bot flag will not be granted to any bot that does not have the {{botblock}} template on its userpage. A bot's userpage should clearly state the bots intended purpose, and other relevant details. See also Wikinews:Global Bots.

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These are bots that have made any page edit or logged action within 30 days:

Inactive bots

These are bots that have not made any page edits nor logged actions within 30 days:

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CommonsDelinker

This bot has never been approved. I could actually just block it, therefore, but I don't think we need go that far. I would appreciate it if someone can fill in the details for me; I try and avoid the nitty-gritty of coding bots etc, mainly because I don't understand a word of it. Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 13:21, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Operator: Wikimedia Commons
  • botName: CommonsDelinker (talk · contribs)
  • language: I wouldn't know one if it hit me in the face
  • task: Removing images deleted from Commons

Comments

The purpose and operation are explained at meta:User:CommonsDelinker. This has been discussed previously here, see [1], and consensus seemed to be in favour of allowing the bot to continue operating. Whilst the bot has had an interesting history for various reasons, I'm only aware of its editor status being an issue recently and that seems to have been resolved so I'm not sure that we need to have another community vote on this. Are there any new issues or concerns that I'm unaware of? Adambro (talk) 15:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikinews Importer bot

This is attempt Number 2. I'm pasting the old request.

To set up a mobile phone version of wikinews (similar to http://en.wap.wikipedia.org ) We need a version of the main page that has no DPL's or templates. I believe using the wikinews importer bot (its the bot that syndicates our headlines to certain places on wikipedia) to copy out a DPL of latest published to a specific page (probably Main Page/Simple Main Page/mobile, or portal:Mobile). Please see also WN:WC#Wikinews_wap_.28mobile_phone.29_portal, old archived discussion on wc and bugzilla:14755. bot specifics (note: this is off the top of my head. i think its right, but remember its me saying it, so if anything is incorrect its my fault).

Bawolff ☺☻ 20:40, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any statistics for the use of Wikipedia both the normal format and the mobile format, assessed from mobile devices? Adambro (talk) 21:03, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not publicly available that i am aware of. I could ask around. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What I do know is that according to alexa, of all trafic going to something.wikipedia.org, 52% goes to en.wikipedia.org, less then (most likely much less then) 1% goes to the mobile gateway (based on how little it is advertised, that is not suprising.) Bawolff ☺☻ 21:23, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
But no mobile phones have the Alexa toolbar so less those stats exclude access through mobiles. Anonymous101 (talk) 06:44, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Good point, so we really have no idea. I would still geuss it is much much less then the normal english wikipedia though. Nonetheless I still think its useful especially considering that it really would take very little effort to maintain (bot does everything, we have to do essentially nothing). Bawolff ☺☻ 05:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Umm, I'm going to be away from computers for about a month. If this does achieve concensuss, can someone make sure:

So that we can get the mobile portal working. Thanks. Bawolff ☺☻ 11:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • Last time Cirt said we should probably change the name of the bot, so we don't confuse it with its wikipedia sibiling

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MikemoralBot

--The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 05:30, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Flagged, closed a few days early, but seeing as the contest starts in ten hours, I want to give Mikemoral enough time to set it up by midnight UTC. Tempodivalse [talk] 13:57, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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