GuildWiki talk:Bot tasks

Mind if I add maybot as a bot, since its a bot account without a bot flag? &mdash; Warw/Wick 20:20, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Only accounts in the Bots group, Special:Listusers/bot, are actually bot accounts. Your Maybot is simply a shoepuppet.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 20:33, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Task pages
I think it would be best to document each script that gets run by the bots, thus I made a subpage for the Builds task. Let me know if I'm missing anything important. Also, please note that the password is passed in from the command line - a good security measure (I learned at work) so that I don't have to remember to edit it out whenever I post a script here. &mdash;Dr Ishmael 20:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Good ideas. I feel quite secure with you on this lol. &mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 20:53, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, thanks. I work for a company that manages consumer data, including credit card and social security numbers.  They indoctrinate new employees with nearly a week's worth of security training, so it's no wonder that I'm quite conscious of security issues.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 21:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Edit interval
What would be a good editing interval for bots here? At WP, they suggest 10 seconds (360 edits/hour) for non-urgent tasks, while urgent tasks can go down to around 4 seconds (900 edits/hour). User:Galil.bot was always run with a 10-second interval (after it got the botflag), so I based mine on that. While none of the proposed tasks so far are urgent, we probably have a much lower server load than WP, so I'd think we could use a smaller interval. (Sorry for being a bit spammy with questions 'n' stuff, but we should work this stuff out before we start running anything. (Gee, I certainly like using parentheses, don't I?)) &mdash;Dr Ishmael  21:27, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm running mine at 4, but i'll cut down to 10 Random Time  21:35, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I support 10sec per edit just as a good standard to use. We may have a visits, but we probably also don't have as good servers compared to WP, so you can't really compare server load that way.  Is there a feedback mechanism so that if Wikia is being slow (or just your own internet), the bot detects that and pauses? -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 21:36, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter We can use that if Wikia runs on a replicated database cluster.  Otherwise, the script could ping Wikia before each edit. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 21:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Maxlag works - try this and reload a few times. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 23:18, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

My Policy Proposal
If my policy proposal makes it, it will be manditory that we have a request section on this page; you guys just want to add it here anyway, it would be useful if my policy makes it through or not :o) -- Shadowphoenix  03:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Future improvement
Maybe the edit summary can link to the bot task page, such as Bot tasks/Builds redlinks rewrite. Not necessary to do it for the current task, but can be something nice for the future. -User:PanSola (talk to the ) 22:37, 2 May 2008 (UTC)