The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: Eagle 101

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: See details

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

Edit rate requested: 5 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: This bot will assist the arbitration clerks in doing their duties when opening and closing cases. At this time the bot will only preform some steps of opening arbitration cases. The bot will do the work of sending out the notices to the various participants. Other tasks to assist the clerks may be added on in the future. The areas of wikipedia this bot will edit is participant's talk pages, WP:AN, WP:CSN, and various pages in arbcom's space. Some details on its workings can be seen at User:Thatcher131/Sandbox3. The bot will be running with a custom made perl framework. If anyone wants to see the source code just let me know. I plan to release this framework under the GPL at some point in the future. The bot will need to be able to edit at approx 4-5 edits a minute, given a flag the bot could notify all the participants faster, but given the rate of arbcom cases its not a must. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 03:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum: The bot will sit in the arbitration clerk's page and watch the feed bot there for edits to the bot's /task page. The bot will confirm that the edit was made by a clerk, which will either be listed on an admin protected page, or locally to the bot itself. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 04:04, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For the bot's trial, I ask that it be approved to open 1 or two arbcom cases, and to refer to those results when they are done. I have no clue as to the timeframe that two cases will be open, that is up to arbcom. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 04:06, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. for two cases as requested. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 04:17, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Any news with the trial? Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 21:38, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will report back when there is more information. Right now we are just trying to figure out which case to start it on. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 23:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove previous comments when removing the tag, it makes the answer seem out of context. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 22:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Err, I thought that was to tell the bot I have responded. In any case feel free to replace it. The bot has gone through its first case, and has preformed as advertised. See the bot's contributions. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 23:05, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well there was one error that was spotted after I reported here, but that has been fixed from the last trial. In the second trial there was a second error, which had the bot posting to user talk:yes, this has been fixed for future usage. Its up to you guys to have it in trial for one more case, or just approve it. There are several other features being added as per some of the clerks requests, but those are not major and result in the modification or the editing of one more page, which is in arbcom space. (mainly the bot will update the majorities, and modify the arbcom clerk tempate) —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 01:01, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 01:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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