(Just to be clear, this page is called "GurchBot 2" but doesn't refer to a second task for GurchBot, it's a different account)
Operator: Gurch
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automated
Function Summary: Archive page moving
Edit period: Once, will take a couple of days to run.
Edit rate requested: 4 edits per minute (i.e. two moves per minute, since a move is two edits)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details:
Right now this bot is updating a list of ArbCom election results in my user space at regular intervals. I didn't bother requesting approval for this, partly because it's only running in my own userspace, but mostly because the elections had already been running for about an hour when I was asked to write the bot (which took about two hours to write, after which I set it going immediately). Had I gone through the rigmarole of discussion, seven-day trial period and so forth, the elections would have been over before I'd even got it going, which would have made it pretty useless. (For that reason it's not flagged, even though it's doing the sort of thing that a flagged bot is used for). Anyway, it's been going nearly two weeks and nobody's objected, so I can only assume it's OK. If I run it again for next year's elections, I will place a request for approval well in advance, since I already have it written this time.
Anyway, moving on to its next task, there are now quite a few templates available that allow you to "navigate" through sequentially-numbered discussion archives. See ((archive-nav)) and ((atn)) for two examples. At this point I'm not proposing to add any particular template to the archive pages (except ((talkarchive)), which I already added myself, in the boring non-bot way, a few months back), convenient though it may be. This is partly because I'm hoping at some point to standardize on one template, rather than having several. However, all these templates have one thing in common; they require the archive pages to be named in a particular way in order to work. Specifically, they have to be named "Talk:Foo/Archive N", with a capital "A" and a space before the number. Currently many of them are named "/Archive1", "/archive 1", "/archive1" or something else entirely. What I'd like to do is make it possible to add a navigational template to all of these archives (either manually, or by bot once we've sorted out which one to use). So here's the deal:
I already have a list of pages to move, which I've compiled and checked manually; a total of 2523. At the proposed rate of two moves (4 edits) per minute that would take just under 24 hours to complete, though I may split it over two days. I may end up moving slightly more than that, as of course new pages are added to the category every day. As far as I'm aware a bot flag doesn't hide stuff in the logs, which is unfortunate, though one is presumably still a good idea to hide the edits that will result. (Although GurchBot already has a flag, I use that for "assisted" high-speed editing, and I've decided it's probably a good idea to separate that from "fully automated" editing – if nothing else it means the user/talk pages can be worded more clearly – so I'll use this account).
– Gurch 06:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Could you provide us with some example diffs for what this bot would do? -- RM 00:49, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
1: Talk:11 March 2004 Madrid attacks/Archive1 -> Talk:11 March 2004 Madrid attacks/Archive 1 2: Talk:11 March 2004 Madrid attacks/Archive2 -> Talk:11 March 2004 Madrid attacks/Archive 2 3: Talk:11 March, 2004 Madrid attacks/Archive1 -> Talk:11 March, 2004 Madrid attacks/Archive 1 4: Talk:11 March, 2004 Madrid attacks/Archive2 -> Talk:11 March, 2004 Madrid attacks/Archive 2 5: Talk:11:11/archive1 -> Talk:11:11/Archive 1 6: Talk:2002 Gujarat violence/Archive1 -> Talk:2002 Gujarat violence/Archive 1 7: Talk:2002 Gujarat violence/Archive2 -> Talk:2002 Gujarat violence/Archive 2 8: Talk:2004 Summer Olympics/Archive1 -> Talk:2004 Summer Olympics/Archive 1 9: Talk:2004 U.S. Election controversies and irregularities/Archive1 -> Talk:2004 U.S. Election controversies and irregularities/Archive 1 10: Talk:2004 U.S. Election controversies and irregularities/Archive2 -> Talk:2004 U.S. Election controversies and irregularities/Archive 2 ... ... ... 2521: Talk:Zoophilia/Archive13 -> Talk:Zoophilia/Archive 13 2522: Talk:Zoophilia/Archive14 -> Talk:Zoophilia/Archive 14 2523: Talk:Zoophilia/Archive15 -> Talk:Zoophilia/Archive 15
Ok I removed the flag since you said you were done for now. If you're going to use it again in the future just request it then. Thanks - Taxman Talk 18:05, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]