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This is an archived version of this page, as edited by MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk | contribs) at 20:55, 10 November 2016 (→Community Tech bot: added throttling). It may differ significantly from the current version.

Community Tech bot

Bot's tasks for which permission is being sought: Counts the number of proposals and contributors to the Community Wishlist Survey

Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic

Edit type (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Roughly every 10 minutes

Programming language(s): Ruby

Source: GitHub

Full disclosure: The bot has been running for several days, as we were under the impression that prior approval was not needed for this sort of task. With respect to local bot policy, it is important for us to keep the bot running as the survey is currently in progress. We can adjust the bot to write only in its own userspace, if that is deemed to be more appropriate. Thank you for your understanding! MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 20:14, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, the bot flag is only required for bots that are doing "high speed" edits (more than 1 per minute) or if they are completely unsupervised, but it's always a good idea to get a bot flag anyway since it prevents Special:RecentChanges from being spammed. Kaldari (talk) 20:21, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have throttled the bot to edit no more than once a minute MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 20:55, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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