Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Project Messenger Bot Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Project_Messenger_Bot

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Approved.

Project Messenger Bot

Operator: Noommos (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 18:09, Sunday April 3, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Auto

Programming language(s): PHP

Source code available: On request

Function overview: Dropping a message on several WikiProjects talk pages.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Once

Estimated number of pages affected: 74 (some redirect to same page)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function details: Completes this task. Uses a recipient list and puts John's message on their talk page. Respects redirects and bot exclusions (in case they want to opt-out). I plan on opening another BRFA to request permission to run other WikiProject messaging through requests on talk page (or perhaps through a toolserver interface) sometime in the close future.

Discussion

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. One cycle of notifications. MBisanz ^talk 01:06, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify, one cycle would be one message sent to all of its recipients (e.g. John's request)? Noom _talk ^contribs 12:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. MBisanz ^talk 20:30, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete. The bot was able to successfully distribute the message. However, 2 problems were identified. The first was a bug in the redirect resolving. It would report an invalid article name and the bot would fail to post the message there. The second was a bug in the script I used to generate the recipient list. It seemed to have problems with special characters such as á and others. Noom _talk ^contribs 16:14, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. MBisanz ^talk 03:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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