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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 The result of the discussion was Withdrawn by operator.

OverlordQBot 6

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Operator: Q T C

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Overview: Clean up Category:Tor_exit_nodes and related subcats.

Edit period(s): One Time Run

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

Function Details: I want to do to clean out the Tor categories, get the categories of bans up to date, etc. Just basically clean up the mess that is the automagic tagging of Tor nodes. Below in the discussion of what it does, what it will do, and how it works.

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Alright, after the comments below, I feel that these categories are redundant and obsoleted by the TorBlock extension. As such, I feel the request should fulfill these tasks.

For all currently blocked IPs:

  • log them to a page for manual application of correct template {{open proxy}}, {{tor}}, {{etc...}}.

For all currently unblocked IPs:

  • If not a Tor node, remove the tor templates
  • If it is a Tor node, log to a seperate page for follow up.

The ratio of blocked/unblockedactive/unblockedinactive is about 2:3:95 Q T C 13:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

8 edit tests in the Recent changes. Forgot to tell it to do a test run instead of the real thing so it edited the actual pages instead of spit them to a log in userspace. :( Q T C 20:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a replacement for KrimpBot for those confused. Q T C 10:03, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User:KrimpBot has a lot of deleted contributions for a reason.... --MZMcBride (talk) 10:07, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Is the reason that it was improperly tagging, or that tagging the talk pages was a bad idea? –xeno (talk) 12:52, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I (think) the complaint was that it was creating talk pages, then blanking, creating, etc. I think these categories need retired, and this task should be relegated to a one-time run to make it accurate as TorBlock should be handling all of this already. Category tracking is pretty unnecessary at this point. Q T C 12:56, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Modified the request. Q T C 13:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The categories could be deprecated by removing them from the templates. –xeno (talk) 13:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That'd be too easy. Q T C 13:37, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. Meh, I'll take this to WT:OP where we can figure out the best way outta this and refile later. Q T C 13:45, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]


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