Meta:Requests for bot status/Mike's bot account

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a closed Meta-Wiki request. Please do not modify it.

Mike's bot account

I'd like a bot flag to make some mass changes to subpages of User:COIBot. I will be adding the __NOINDEX__ magic word. In the future, the account would be used for similarly uncontroversial SBL-related tasks such as closing stale reports in an automated fashion. I do operate a bot on 4 other wikis, though running different tasks there. — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 14:55, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are some 47,000 pages that need updating to hide the entries from google. After this bot does the update, COIBot will include __NOINDEX__ automatically as part of its normal operation. This is simply to go back and apply the feature to existing reports. (As discussed on IRC, I'm just explaining the operation some more). —— nix eagle 15:05, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note that these 47,000 pages are for both meta and enwiki. On meta there are about 25,000 pages. --Erwin(85) 15:12, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very good idea. 25k Edits should really be made with botflag. ;) --Thogo (talk) 16:01, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please, please do, otherwise I'll never be able to see what's in RC! Kylu 21:22, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I should note this task will likely take some dozens of hours if run continuously. — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 21:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just as this request came up, I was thinking that local admins should be able to turn a "flood" flag on and off at will if doing tasks that will needlessly flood Recent Changes. I may propose it sometime, because I think an admin can be trusted to not misuse such a tool. As to Mike's current request: should be fine. If no-one has any objections, I'd be happy to flag you in ~24 hours. That seems long enough in a fairly informal discussion such as this. --Anonymous Dissident^Talk 10:51, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For stuff like this, request temp bot access from any crats on IRC and we will oblige, anything to clean up Meta and "No hidden charges" ;) ..--Comet styles 10:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) I agree with Anonymous Dissident here. I do not see flagging an admin or admin derived account as a bot to prevent RC becoming unusable as at all controversial personally. Equally there are few Wikimedians I would trust more than Mike. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:56, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Flagged. --Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:10, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Boo hoooo. Now it means I must actually do work :P — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 18:06, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]