Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MadmanBot 16
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Approved.
Operator: Madman (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 00:27, Friday September 14, 2012 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic.
Programming language(s): PHP.
Source code available: No.
Function overview: E-mail activation codes to contributors who signed up for free 1-year Questia accounts.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): N/A. (I was asked to do this via e-mail.)
Edit period(s): Once a month or so.
Estimated number of pages affected: 0.
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): No.
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes.
Function details: Basically the same task as Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MadmanBot 15, which has run without any issue at any point, but for Questia accounts instead of HighBeam accounts. Maybe this should be extended to Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library in general?
Discussion
editCheers! — madman 00:27, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
- I asked Madman to do this and I just want to say that having codes be emailed by a bot has literally enabled The Wikipedia Library to flourish. Manually emailing hundreds of codes would be soul-crushing. So I obviously support the need for this, and I believe the editors who receive their account information by email are also appreciative of the work Madman and MadmanBot have done. Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 01:03, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Unlike stub creation, a speedy approve is appropriate, similar task, technically competent proven bot operator, responsive to input about bot and task. 68.107.140.60 (talk) 03:12, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's say 5 emails or 1 email cycle. MBisanz talk 20:30, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Trial complete. – Redacted e-mail confirmations are here: [1]. Sorry it took me a while to get this trial off the ground; I was trying to figure out why MediaWiki was telling me there were less user links than I could see, but of course it was completely right as one user was listed twice. I need more caffeine. — madman 23:05, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Approved. MBisanz talk 00:46, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
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