Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SoxBot 21

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Approved.

SoxBot 21

Operator: X!

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: Not available yet, will release once I make sure it is safe

Function overview: Create new page for Portal:Current events daily

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Daily, 15 minutes before midnight UTC

Estimated number of pages affected: 1 per day

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Not needed

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

Function details: This bot will create a subpage of Portal:Current events every day before midnight, as to ensure that the correct data is shown when the new day turns around. It will create this content in [[Portal:Current events/date('Y F j', strtotime("+1 day"))]]:

{{Current events header|{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}|{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}}|{{subst:CURRENTDAY}}}}
<!-- All news items below this line -->
*
<!-- All news items above this line -->|}

It will make sure that the page does not already exist before it creates it.

Discussion

Sounds boring. Bot appropriate, repeated task at a specific time is good use of bot, imo. Competent coder, responsive to community input. Yawn. --IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 07:37, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (5 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. MBisanz ^talk 00:55, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

[4 done, will be 5 in about 19 hours (X! · talk) · @255 · 05:06, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. MBisanz ^talk 22:55, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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