GuildWiki talk:Editing bots project

Policy proposal
get back to work! you're only half way done with fixing all the armor pages!&mdash; JediRogue  01:32, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Yeah :D. I was thinking of having something like this to formalise requests for bot tasks, such as updating the hundreds of armor links. -- Gordon Ecker 01:39, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
 * You fail at posting links. &mdash; JediRogue  [[Image:JediRogueSig.jpg]] 01:49, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
 * what sparked this proposal? Do we need it, considering i have never seen a bot used by an anon or normal person, since well like nearly 2 years ago now? -- Xeon 02:06, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Look at recent changes. And following all this, a TON of images need to be renamed. Some of the armr art galleries are templated and depend on the image names. The non-templated pages are lower priority for image updates. &mdash; JediRogue  [[Image:JediRogueSig.jpg]] 02:08, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Yeah, the policy's mainly about making it simpler to request bot tasks. The usage section is just a statement of the facts. I believe the wiki settings currently only allow bureaucrats to bestow or revoke bot privileges, and I'm not aware of any non-administrators with bot privileges. -- Gordon Ecker 03:41, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
 * I dont think a policy is required because it is such a rare thing, there was one user that was given bot privileges User:Galil.bot btw. If a mistake was done during someone botting, it means nothing more then the program was not correctly written or the current system -> new system was not correctly analyzed. Botting should be allowed by anyone, within reason of course. Notification of a bot being used to modify a mass number of pages should be given to administrators and the bot should be run on a small test sample first before completing the rest. I have made a few bots in the past to change a few things and to compile statistics  for the wiki with no harm done to anything. If this policy is to stay, i think you should focus on who you are aiming to restrict. This being, people that mass edit a number of pages. The bot task page will be empty most of the time, with most bot programs run within a few days of their creation. -- Xeon 04:22, 25 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Honestly, I'm thinking a project page would work better than a policy. -- Gordon Ecker 18:44, 25 May 2007 (CDT)


 * I'm not particularly familiar with pyWikiBot, but it seems like, for at least the image reuploading task, that it would be easier to do it by hand. &mdash;Tanaric 20:49, 25 May 2007 (CDT)