Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ripchip Bot

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Ripchip Bot

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Operator: Beria

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, supervised

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: "Standard pywikipedia"

Function overview: interwiki bot

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected:

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): no, in request on pt.wikipedia

Function details: Add interwikis. Béria Lima ^Msg 19:59, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

Hi there Beria. I see the bot has already done a small number of edits. While on some other wikis this is welcomed, here we prefer bots to make no edits until approved, or explicitly approved for a trial. Please make sure you read through our WP:BOTPOL, and make sure you understand it. If you need help understanding anything feel free to ask me :).
If you are just using Python, I think it should be exclusion compliant by default. I'm assuming you haven't changed this setting?
I see you reverted this bot's edit to Do You Know (Jessica Simpson album), it's good that you are keeping track of the bot's edits. But can you explain why the bot made this edit in the first place? - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 13:18, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

I stopped the bot. Sorry, I assume that here is like all the others wikis, when I have to do a few edits to test.

And no, I'm not made any change in the pywikipedia. I'm really using the standard version.

I reverted the bot because I give to him the wrong command (He ask me if i want to do that change, and i said yes, when should said no). Béria Lima ^Msg 23:52, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

So the bot will be run supervised all of the time? Yeah, on en.wiki the bot policy is that you get permission before a trial. You only made a few edits, then stopped, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Operator communicating, willing to learn. I don't have any special concerns about py.wiki bots, as it seems BAG members watch out for them fairly well and know the ins and outs. --IP69.226.103.13 (talk) 08:53, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Speedily Approved. Standard interwiki.py, operator seems sufficiently experienced to run it. Remember that interwiki.py may not edit the Template namespace here, and don't forget to update pywikipedia daily. Anomie⚔ 01:29, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

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