Battlestar Wiki:Bots

This page is one of Battlestar Wiki's many projects. This page serves to coordinate discussion on a particular aspect of this Wiki. The formal recommendations of a project may be treated as policies.

Bots (Codename: Raider) assist members and the administrator staff with basic functions throughout the Wiki. Some might be as trivial as HTML translating into Wikicode and some are much more complex.

Bots require special approval to be run on a Wiki as they have control over mass of data. If you with to contribute by writing a bot, you can post it under the review bin so Administrators can take a look at it to make sure it's non-threating.

Project Team

• Shane
• Joe Beaudoin Jr.

Policy

• There must be a need for it. We won't install every bot there even if it is used somewhere else for trivial matters.
• A bot can be removed from service at any time with or without reason.
• One Month Probation Period - Afterwards the bot owner can control it's functions and not Administrators.
• Once a bot is approved, that source code will be locked. If it needs updating and depending on it's update size, it might go back to a 2 week probation period to make sure everything works out ok.
• Bot masters must maintain all bot related pages. If pages become out of date, bots will be disabled until information is current.
• Bot masters will also send a monthly report on the progress on their bots to determine if they are still needed.
• All bots will be under the Category:Bots.

Bots Under Review

• Fix/Link/Redirect Bot - This bot will keep an eye out for links that are redirects going to the article namespace. for example, Cally is a redirect. The bot will go through can change of the links that are Cally to [[Cally Henderson Tyrol|Cally]]. We will ignore links that goto pages with redirects to the Battlestar Wiki namespace.

Status: in development

• Vote Bot - This bot will keep summerizes of all the voting that is taking place on the wiki. Only pages what are in the "Category:Ideas currently under voting status", BW:RFA's, and BW:RFB's will get phrased and checked for their vote summary. BW:RFA and BW:RFB vote summaries will be placed on am Administrator watch page. All other voting items will be placed on the BW:VOTE page.

Master: Shane

Status: in development

Bots Under Active Status

• Archive Bot - This bot will archive talk pages automatically and create the correct headers for each archive page.

Master: Shane

Status: Active

Runs: Via Cron Job

When: Every 24 hours; Checks all pages linked that have {{archive-bot}}.

• Interwiki Bot - A bot that will interwiki all pages on all wiki and does mass replaces.

Master: Shane

Status: Active.

Runs: Via Cron Job

Commands: DE, ES, FR, TR, ZH (in this order) runs weekly at 0000, starting at Sunday (DE) finshing Thursday (ZH). The bot never runs against the EN wiki.

On Error: Page is skipped.

• Task Bot - A bot that will create and maintain an "OPEN TASK" list in Battlestar Wiki:Tasks of everything that is marked with a certain templates and in a certain categories so they are not forgotten. All "Tasks" are to be put into a template called {{allopentasks}}.

Master: Shane

Status: Inactive; Code being redeveloped.

Runs: Every 12 Hours

Bots Currently Running

Name	Purpose	Owner	Date Added	Status
Archive Bot	Archive talk pages automatically and create the correct headers for each archive page	Shane	2007-06-11	__ Active
Interwiki Bot	Make sure articles, on the interwiki, have the interwiki link back to its parent and also does mass replaces.	Shane	2007-01-21	__ Active
Task Bot	Keep task list updated to list on what needs to be completed and looked at on the Wiki.	Shane	2006-04-22	__ Inactive

Development/Pending

Name	Purpose	Owner	Date Added	Status
Fix Bot	Fix Redirects and BW:SAC enforcement.	Shane	TBD	__ Development