Meta:Requests for bot status/TeddyBot
- The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a closed Meta-Wiki request. Please do not modify it.
- TeddyBot (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.
Not ending before 19 March 2024 23:19 (UTC)
Looking to setup bot rights for User:TeddyBot to do some tedious link cleanup work via AWB. Currently setup as a bot on Commons and will be doing some AWB related work with bot to show example work. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 23:19, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
- @GVarnum-WMF what is the scope of this bot? What is the volume and frequency of the tasks? — xaosflux Talk 00:13, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Xaosflux: Thank you for the inquiry. The scope is content which the Foundation, primarily the Communications department, participates in maintaining. Right now, the only planned activities are related to cleaning up some links and templates related to migrating Board and policy materials to Foundation Governance Wiki. The volume is at most a couple hundred pages, but usually closer to a few dozen. Frequency is relatively rare and as needed to assist with mundane (and simple) find/replace tasks. Let me know if you need any additional information, or if I should take any other steps. Thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 00:20, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
- If the volume is low enough, I don't think the bot flag is needed. Leaderboard (talk) 10:31, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- Fair enough - I am functionally able to do what I need to do for now without it. So if the volume is not an issue, I am good with that. I mostly wanted to help with things like watchlist filtering and be transparent about the "bot" behavior of that account, but do not feel strongly about if accounts warrants it right now or not. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 14:42, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- Someone should at least grant autopatrol to the bot to prevent unnecessary work for patrollers. --Ameisenigel (talk) 15:52, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- That is done for now. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:02, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- That is done for now. ~~~~
- Someone should at least grant autopatrol to the bot to prevent unnecessary work for patrollers. --Ameisenigel (talk) 15:52, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Fair enough - I am functionally able to do what I need to do for now without it. So if the volume is not an issue, I am good with that. I mostly wanted to help with things like watchlist filtering and be transparent about the "bot" behavior of that account, but do not feel strongly about if accounts warrants it right now or not. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 14:42, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- If the volume is low enough, I don't think the bot flag is needed. Leaderboard (talk) 10:31, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Xaosflux: Thank you for the inquiry. The scope is content which the Foundation, primarily the Communications department, participates in maintaining. Right now, the only planned activities are related to cleaning up some links and templates related to migrating Board and policy materials to Foundation Governance Wiki. The volume is at most a couple hundred pages, but usually closer to a few dozen. Frequency is relatively rare and as needed to assist with mundane (and simple) find/replace tasks. Let me know if you need any additional information, or if I should take any other steps. Thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 00:20, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Done — xaosflux Talk 13:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)- The above request page is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Comments about this page should be made in Meta:Babel or Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat.
