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

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::::Today's TFA has 40 templates and 5 images on it. While many of the templates were probably already indef-protected, several would probably still need to be done. Twice a day (protect/unprotect), every day (actually, the bot might check 100+ times per day). Are you volunteering? To me, this objection doesn't make any sense. This follows the natural order of things. People realize this needs to be done, so they start doing it. They then realize its just mindless repetitive actions, so they make a quick user script to speed things up. The script eventually develops to the point where all they have to do is click the button. Then they realize that with a bot, they could click the button automatically. I'm not certain if the middle steps happened like that, though its likely (Twinkle has a feature that would really help with that)

::::And you're right, RedirectCleanupBot doesn't "prove" we won't have a "SkyNet style incident," the actual facts behind how simple computer programs like this work proves we won't. <font face="Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</font> 21:02, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

SQL Query for later:

<source lang = "SQL">

SELECT CONCAT('* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=',rev_id,']') FROM revision WHERE rev_comment LIKE 'GymCR47%' AND rev_user = 2091313';

</source>

Well, after reading this whole thing over a couple times, and, then giving it another day, I believe that this bot is ready for a trial run, and, that there is consensus for this task to run. For the time being, I would like to restrict this bot to templates only (no images). Being an adminbot, and, this being unusual circumstances, I am going to ask for a thirty day trial, under your administrator account, linking to this BRFA ( [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FA Template Protection Bot]] in hopes that more comments may be generated ) adding the string "GymCR47" at the beginning of the edit summary so that this processes edits may be more easily identified. With your modifications, I do not believe the timing attack mentioned above will be an issue. Please consider pinging #wikipedia-en-alerts on that condition, on IRC. {{BotTrial|days=30}} [[User:SQL|<span style="font-size:7pt;color: #fff;background:#900;border:2px solid #999">SQL</span>]][[User talk:SQL|<sup style="font-size: 5pt;color:#999">Query me!</sup>]] 05:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)