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)

re:ULC cat changes
Okay a few decisions need to be made on this. I'll post more as I come across/think of them. The basic question is, which do we want to keep capital because it uses some ingame term or some standard capitalization that we use elsewhere on the wiki and which are violating ULC and should be changed. &mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 00:14, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Profession Bosses &rarr; Profession bosses
 * 2) Species Bosses &rarr; Species bosses
 * 3) Place (Mission) &rarr; Place (mission) (also, Location, skill, and other disambigs)

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)