Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 1

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Approved.

Femto Bot 1

Operator: Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Auto

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: No

Function overview: Move comments from my bot's talk pages to my talk page, and to their respective archives.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 1 per day (1 event per 3 days, affecting 3 pages) - based on about 100 comments per year to SB.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No

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

Function details:

Will remove the new section from bot's talk page and copy it to my talk page.
Will also place a copy in the bot's talk archive page (currently done manually)
Will at the same time clean out the HTML comments that are auto-inserted by the message button, and remove empty sections.
Will add a "Copied from XXX by Femto Bot (possibly the smallest bot in the world)" message to the section on my talk page.

Note: this will not affect the stop functionality of SmackBot - see User:SmackBot/What the stop button does.

Discussion

Fairly clearly since SmackBot is really the only active bot of mine at the moment - well the long moment obvioso - this is where the work will be. If the functionality was wanted by others I would shift it to a different bot - Femto is meant to be low activity. Rich Farmbrough, 00:03, 2 October 2010 (UTC). {{BAG assistance needed}}[reply]

Have you considered redirecting SmackBot's talk page to your own? This could reduce the number of malicious STOPs you're getting, but would still allow users who know what they're doing to stop the bot (by editing the redirect). Other than that I don't really see the problem with this, since it's your own userspaces. However, the bot seems to be editing your talk page a lot, which can make it difficult to see what the last "real" message to you was (and clogs up the history, not such a big problem for me if you have a sensible archiving method in place, which you seem to be sorting out), the "nudging" seems to be the main cause of this problem, not sure what task that is? A more informative edit summary would maybe help deal with this (e.g. "Last non-bot edit: [USER], Edit summary: [LAST NON-BOT EDIT SUMMARY]") - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 08:07, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes good idea. The nudges are my personal reminders of an hourly task, but once Task 2:3 is completed FB will fill in the Femto Box at the top

Femto's Box
Th	3
Ed	5
Ms	7

(Threads, Editors and Messages)[since my last edit] then making an edit summary as you describe would be fairly easy. Rich Farmbrough, 10:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC).[reply]

I don't get malicious stops by and large. Most are accidental, or good faith but mistaken, but there are useful stops. For example an editor picked up a typo early in a (shortish) run which was much less edits to fix than if he had messaged me and I'd missed it. (I replied on your page - because I knew I had missed answering that point, but forgot where it was.) Rich Farmbrough, 11:10, 6 October 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Okay, Approved. Please add the edit summary when possible - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 11:33, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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