Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Protection Helper Bot: Difference between revisions

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::::The significant part is {{tpq|let me get the bot working}}, not setting up source control. It took me five minutes to create the repository and package the script. Requiring someone to invest a significant amount of time developing code ''prior'' to approving a project is the issue. This wasn't a ten line user script, it was a significant investment of my free time in the month since project was approved. [[User:Daniel Quinlan|Daniel Quinlan]] ([[User talk:Daniel Quinlan|talk]]) 21:19, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

:::::@[[User:Daniel Quinlan|Daniel Quinlan]] Thank you. My apologies for the gruff tone I inadvertently adopted. This is just something that pushes my buttons and I should not have taken it out on you. [[User:RoySmith|RoySmith]] [[User Talk:RoySmith|(talk)]] 23:02, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

The bot is running now. The code review by {{noping|Novem Linguae}} highlighted a few areas for improvement, especially improving some method names for clarity, which I'm addressing. There are also several cases where the bot won’t reprotect an article but where a notification might be helpful. To address this, I plan to add a user talk page notification to the administrator who performed the expired protection, but only for those cases.

The vast majority of articles that would have been reprotected have already been handled (either due to disruption resuming or administrators monitoring expirations), but even with that constraint, the bot has already restored long-term protection on several pages protected under [[WP:GS|general sanctions]], two under [[WP:CT/A-I]] and one under [[WP:GS/RUSUKR]].

Link to relevant contributions as per the terms of the trial: [[Special:Log/protect/Protection Helper Bot]]. [[User:Daniel Quinlan|Daniel Quinlan]] ([[User talk:Daniel Quinlan|talk]]) 01:35, 4 September 2024 (UTC)