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I wrote it so if we have more bots on here, it be how a bot would get aproved and make sure it does not corrupt the Wiki. Please add a comment for change suggestions during the vote. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 11:17, 25 April 2006 (CDT)
I wrote it so if we have more bots on here, it be how a bot would get aproved and make sure it does not corrupt the Wiki. Please add a comment for change suggestions during the vote. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 11:17, 25 April 2006 (CDT)
:It sounds promising. Can you clarify what you mean by a user having "ownership" of a particular bot? Shouldn't they be a community resource? --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 11:28, 25 April 2006 (CDT)
 
::Most bots are running on a server that does not hold the Wiki. "Ownership" is basicly responible for it's (bots) actions, where it might be running from. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 11:31, 25 April 2006 (CDT)
'''Support'''
'''Support'''
#[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 11:17, 25 April 2006 (CDT)
#[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 11:17, 25 April 2006 (CDT)
'''Abstain'''
'''Abtain'''


'''Oppose'''
'''Oppose'''
== Bot source ==
How do you view the source of this "Archive Bot"? I would like to read the code so I can comment on it; it's a relatively complicated task for a bot. (Yes, I know Perl, and I can learn any other language you might have written it in, if it's not Perl.) --[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]]<sup>([[Special:Contributions/CalculatinAvatar|C]]-[[User talk:CalculatinAvatar|T]])</sup> 14:06, 1 August 2006 (CDT)
:Still writing it. Based off the same one on Wikipedia. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 14:11, 1 August 2006 (CDT)
::Could you please drop a note here when you finish? --[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]]<sup>([[Special:Contributions/CalculatinAvatar|C]]-[[User talk:CalculatinAvatar|T]])</sup> 14:26, 1 August 2006 (CDT)
::Yep. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 14:41, 1 August 2006 (CDT)
== MediaWiki API ==
For all you bot writers out there: the MediaWiki folks (myself included) are working on an [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API API] that makes it easier for bots to communicate with the wiki. The API is also operative at BattlestarWiki, although the version run by MediaWiki is more recent. For instance, to get information about all revisions of this page, [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Battlestar%20Wiki%20talk:Bots&rvlimit=50&rvprop=timestamp|user|comment here]. A list of all supported functions with examples is [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/api.php here]. Unfortunately, the API doesn't support any state-changing commands (i.e. move, delete, rollback or edit pages) yet, but I'm working on that. Just so you know. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:07, 17 June 2007 (CDT)
== Archive bot run frequency ==
I don't see the need for the bot to be run every hour. It can be run every week and still be effective, since there's not a lot of changes that occur on talk pages, at least right now. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 15:14, 4 September 2007 (CDT)
Also, why are some talk pages set to archive everything after 10 days? That's really very short. It depends on how much is posted (user talk pages might have some more traffic), but 30-60 days is perfectly fine for many cases. That way you can still find some halfway recent things on the main page. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 10:24, 5 September 2007 (CDT)
== Shane ToDo ==
Fix the Python bots. It has been broke for some time now, (At least a month). never relized it till my user talk page was not empty. :) Thanks Shane! [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 22:54, 26 November 2007 (CST)
:A year later.. bots are getting back to work. :P [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 16:09, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
== Task Bot sitrep ==
What's up with the task bot? Any word on when that'll be up and running again? We sorely need it, since a lot of the [[BW:TASK|tasks]] are well out of date. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 14:37, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
:I bugged the author. I think we need to come up with our own version. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 20:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
::Gee... Shocking. LOL -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 21:17, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
== VoteBot demo ==
I've just run VoteBot on the Hangar Bay for the first time. It's not set up as a cron job yet, and it requires MediaWiki 1.13 or later, but the demo's there anyway at [[hb:BW:VOTE]]. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 19:11, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
:Query. I think it's doing the math wrong. Most of the clearly do not have any {{tl|Oppose}} votes, yet it counts 1 and one has 8 supports's where it says it has 1. Sooooooooo. :P [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 19:33, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
::Argh, the instructions contain {{support}}, {{oppose}}, etc., incrementing the counts. I'll remove them. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 20:29, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
:::FYI, You noticed that I have already made some minor improvements to the VoteBot.php file. Just so we don't over write each other. Looks like your regex is case-senstive. Time to remove that :P [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 20:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Just did that. And yeah, I noticed. It's probably more intuitive that the type1/count1 stuff. There's still some #expr: breakage going on, though. Maybe [[hb:Template:Roundup]] is the problem there? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 20:45, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::Ah, you forgot to import [[Template:Pow]]. Fixed now. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 20:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
::::::Also... maybe a good idea so we can keep instructions on the page. Have the bot start to look for "votes" between <pre><!--VOTE-BOT-START--></pre> and <pre><!--VOTE-BOT-END--></pre> [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 21:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::::We should just use {{tlp|tl|support}} rather than <nowiki><nowiki>{{support}}</nowiki></nowiki> for the instructions. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 21:09, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
::rgr. Anyway, I think we got rid of most of the errors. :D [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 21:53, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

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