Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rick Bot 3
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Approved.
Operator: Rick Block (talk)
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming Language(s): Shell/awk w/ pywikipedia
Function Summary: Maintain Wikipedia:WBFTN and associated by-year nomination lists such as Wikipedia:Featured topics nominated in 2008
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily
Edit rate requested: Max would be less than 10 edits per day (more reads)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function Details: Just like what is currently done (and recently approved) for Wikipedia:WBFLN. Involves:
- reading the previous and current monthly log files.
- reading an archived nomination page for each promoted topic and determining the nominator(s). This is done by determining the user who created the nomination page.
- adding any new nominations to the appropriate by-year nomination list.
- reading Wikipedia:FT and Wikipedia:FFT.
- updating all by-year nomination lists to indicate current featured (or not) status
- reading all (updated) by-year nomination lists and regenerating the table in Wikipedia:WBFTN
Discussion
[edit]Fine. Objections? — Werdna talk 12:07, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- Looks good to me. Mr.Z-man 23:12, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Given that the bot has already been performing a nearly identical task since the prior BRfA without a problem, and no objections have been raised, I think this can safely be 
Speedily Approved. :) krimpet✽ 23:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
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