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:As this has been 4 months without an answer, I would like to present my request to the community.[[User:Bllasae|Bllasae]] 17:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC) | :As this has been 4 months without an answer, I would like to present my request to the community.[[User:Bllasae|Bllasae]] 17:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC) | ||
::I'm going to have to say no on this. | ::I'm going to have to say no on this. File:CommanderTony Logo.PNG|25px]]UoH|<font color="silver"><b>General]]</b></font> [[User:CommanderTony|<b><font color="crimson">Tony</font>]]</b>, <b>[[Halopedia:Administrators|<font color=green>Administrator of Halopedia]]</font></b><sup>[[User Talk:CommanderTony|<b><font color="black">Talk]]</font></b></sup> 6/09/2008 | ||
:::Can I have an explanation of why, please?[[User:Bllasae|Bllasae]] 19:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC) | :::Can I have an explanation of why, please?[[User:Bllasae|Bllasae]] 19:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC) | ||
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== Bungie.net Daily and Weekly Challenges Bot == | == Bungie.net Daily and Weekly Challenges Bot == | ||
I would like to propose a bot. Actually, I've already developed it because I had the time and it sounded like fun. So far I've been testing it on [[ | I would like to propose a bot. Actually, I've already developed it because I had the time and it sounded like fun. So far I've been testing it on [[wikia:scratchpad]]. | ||
Bungie.net posts new [http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/globalchallenges.aspx daily and weekly challenges] every day (and week, respectively of course). So far I've been updating Halopedia's record of them (similar to [[List of Double EXP Weekend Playlists]]) manually. Please see [[Challenges]] and | Bungie.net posts new [http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/globalchallenges.aspx daily and weekly challenges] every day (and week, respectively of course). So far I've been updating Halopedia's record of them (similar to [[List of Double EXP Weekend Playlists]]) manually. Please see [[Challenges]] and Challenges/2010-September. | ||
The bot I've created uses the account [[User:31stCenturyBot]]. Please see [[ | The bot I've created uses the account [[User:31stCenturyBot]]. Please see [[wikia:scratchpad:Challenges]], [[wikia:scratchpad:Challenges/2010-September]], and [[wikia:scratchpad:User:31stCenturyBot/Log]]. (I accidentally, manually, made two edits to Halopedia while signed in on that account. Normally I wouldn't have any reason to be signed in under the bot account anyway, so it won't happen again. Sorry.) | ||
It would only run once a day, manually initiated by me. It checks the page on Bungie.net and updates Challenges and Challenges/year-month accordingly. From the log on the Scratchpad wiki you can see I've been testing running it more than once per day, to make sure if someone else happened to update the page manually my bot doesn't make unnecessary edits. It's goal is always to find and alter the challenges table in whichever page. That way edits made by other users to other parts of the pages are unaffected by my bot. | It would only run once a day, manually initiated by me. It checks the page on Bungie.net and updates Challenges and Challenges/year-month accordingly. From the log on the Scratchpad wiki you can see I've been testing running it more than once per day, to make sure if someone else happened to update the page manually my bot doesn't make unnecessary edits. It's goal is always to find and alter the challenges table in whichever page. That way edits made by other users to other parts of the pages are unaffected by my bot. | ||
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:I've continued updating the pages manually and testing my bot on the scratchpad wiki. There were a couple of kinks around the first of the month, though I'm pretty sure I've ironed them out. Any feedback anybody? Thank you. --[[User talk:31stCenturyMatt|31stCenturyMatt]] 03:12, October 6, 2010 (UTC) | :I've continued updating the pages manually and testing my bot on the scratchpad wiki. There were a couple of kinks around the first of the month, though I'm pretty sure I've ironed them out. Any feedback anybody? Thank you. --[[User talk:31stCenturyMatt|31stCenturyMatt]] 03:12, October 6, 2010 (UTC) | ||
::{{Support}} - Seems like a nice little utility. I'll bring this to the attention of the others and get back to you soon. - | ::{{Support}} - Seems like a nice little utility. I'll bring this to the attention of the others and get back to you soon. - [[User:Nicmavr|<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod; font-weight:bold; font-family:Arial">Nìcmávr</span>]] <sup><span style="color:DarkGoldenrod">(</span>[[User Talk:Nicmavr|<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod; font-weight:bold">Tálk</span>]]<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod">)</span></sup> 09:32, 3 November 2010 (EDT) | ||
::{{Support}} - Sounds like a good idea. I'm all for it. - | ::{{Support}} - Sounds like a good idea. I'm all for it. - [[User:Halo-343|<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 128%;">'''Halo-343'''</span>]] [[User talk:Halo-343|<font color="green">('''Talk''')</font>]] 11:52, 3 November 2010 (EDT) | ||
::{{Support}} - {{User:General5 7/sig}} | ::{{Support}} - {{User:General5 7/sig}} | ||
::{{Support}} - Great idea, it'll save a lot of time. | ::{{Support}} - Great idea, it'll save a lot of time. [[User:Spartansniper450/IRC Quotes|<span style="color:#000000">''Col.''</span>]] [[User:Spartansniper450|<span style="color:#00416A">Snipes</span>]][[User talk:Spartansniper450|<span style="color:gold">4</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Spartansniper450|<span style="color:silver">50</span>]] 10:02, 4 November 2010 (EDT) | ||
::{{Support}} - Definitely a good idea. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 11:18, 4 November 2010 (EDT) | ::{{Support}} - Definitely a good idea. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 11:18, 4 November 2010 (EDT) | ||
==[[User:The 888th Bot|The 888th Bot]]== | ==[[User:The 888th Bot|The 888th Bot]]== | ||
I would like to request to have [[User:The 888th Avatar|Avatar's]] bot flagged so he can set it to work on redirect fixing, talk page archival, other general pywikipedia and AWB tasks that mine doesn't currently do. Case example includes fixing redirect links within an article to make a direct, rather than a redirecting, article link. - | I would like to request to have [[User:The 888th Avatar|Avatar's]] bot flagged so he can set it to work on redirect fixing, talk page archival, other general pywikipedia and AWB tasks that mine doesn't currently do. Case example includes fixing redirect links within an article to make a direct, rather than a redirecting, article link. - [[User:Nicmavr|<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod; font-weight:bold; font-family:Arial">Nìcmávr</span>]] <sup><span style="color:DarkGoldenrod">(</span>[[User Talk:Nicmavr|<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod; font-weight:bold">Tálk</span>]]<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod">)</span></sup> 13:57, 9 May 2011 (EDT) | ||
*{{Support}} - | *{{Support}} - [[User:Nicmavr|<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod; font-weight:bold; font-family:Arial">Nìcmávr</span>]] <sup><span style="color:DarkGoldenrod">(</span>[[User Talk:Nicmavr|<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod; font-weight:bold">Tálk</span>]]<span style="color:DarkGoldenrod">)</span></sup> 13:57, 9 May 2011 (EDT) | ||
*{{Support}} - --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 14:10, 9 May 2011 (EDT) | *{{Support}} - --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 14:10, 9 May 2011 (EDT) | ||
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Because of the amount of work we do categorizing images and also to keep the recent changes from getting clogged with these edits, what if I registered a bot account to assist us? It would save us a lot of time and make the work a lot easier. In case you were wondering, the bot would run on [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AutoWikiBrowser]], something which I have experience in using.--[[User:Spartacus|<span style="color: green; font-family: Segoe Script; font-size: 11pt;" title="Spartacus is an administrator.">'''''Spartacus'''''</span>]] <sup>'''[[User talk:Spartacus|<span style="color:#808080; font-family: Times New Roman">Talk</span>]] • [[Special:Contributions/Spartacus|<span style="color:#808080; font-family: Times New Roman">Contribs</span>]]'''</sup> 11:12, 3 March 2017 (EST) | Because of the amount of work we do categorizing images and also to keep the recent changes from getting clogged with these edits, what if I registered a bot account to assist us? It would save us a lot of time and make the work a lot easier. In case you were wondering, the bot would run on [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AutoWikiBrowser]], something which I have experience in using.--[[User:Spartacus|<span style="color: green; font-family: Segoe Script; font-size: 11pt;" title="Spartacus is an administrator.">'''''Spartacus'''''</span>]] <sup>'''[[User talk:Spartacus|<span style="color:#808080; font-family: Times New Roman">Talk</span>]] • [[Special:Contributions/Spartacus|<span style="color:#808080; font-family: Times New Roman">Contribs</span>]]'''</sup> 11:12, 3 March 2017 (EST) | ||
:Agreed. Would make things a lot easier. --[[User:NightHammer|<span style="color: #2B1AAA;">'''NightHammer'''</span>]]''<sup>[[User talk:NightHammer|<span style="color: #2B1AAA;">(talk)</span>]]</sup><sup>[[Special:Contributions/NightHammer|<span style="color: #2B1AAA;">(contribs)</span>]]</sup>'' 11:23, 3 March 2017 (EST) | |||
::Yes, this would be massively useful. There's a ton of category-related cleanup we need to do and it's something way more suitable to a bot than a person. --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 13:25, 3 March 2017 (EST) | |||
:::Awesome. I will begin setting it up then.--[[User:Spartacus|<span style="color: green; font-family: Segoe Script; font-size: 11pt;" title="Spartacus is an administrator.">'''''Spartacus'''''</span>]] <sup>'''[[User talk:Spartacus|<span style="color:#808080; font-family: Times New Roman">Talk</span>]] • [[Special:Contributions/Spartacus|<span style="color:#808080; font-family: Times New Roman">Contribs</span>]]'''</sup> 12:35, 4 March 2017 (EST) | |||
==CIABot for Halopedia Improvement Program== | |||
Because of the lots of edits I have to do for Halopedia regarding the [[Halopedia:Projects/Overall|Halopedia Improvement Program]] in step 1. I am hoping to get [[User:CIABot]] allowed as a Halopedia bot to assist me in the editing, as it would save me so much time. I am hoping to get it running on [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AutoWikiBrowser]] like the previous bot [[User:Spartabot]]. Once the task is done I will either decommission CIABot or leave it dormant till needed again.-[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 13:30, 5 August 2017 (EDT) | |||
:I got [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser|AutoWikiBrowser]] connected. All I really need now is the bot to be allowed to do stuff.-[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 10:26, 6 August 2017 (EDT) | |||
::I have no problem with a CIAtron3000. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 18:28, 6 August 2017 (EDT) | |||
'''Request''': Well, it looks I neglected to remove the rights to my bot. :P It still has bot and admin privileges so would someone mind removing those? Thanks. <br>Also, @CIA, go ahead and replace Spartabot with CIABot on [[MediaWiki:Common.css|this page]], so that it shows up in highlighted colors on the recent changes.--{{User:Spartacus/Sig}} 19:46, 19 August 2017 (EDT) | |||
== BaconShelf Bot Request == | |||
Posting to get permission for the creation of a Bot Account for use in categorising files into Halo 4 and 5 Concept Art categories, as these categories are currently nonexistent, and doing it all by hand will be a long process. I've previously run a bot account, using AutoWikiBroswer9000, known as SpyglassUnitAlpha for similar purposes over on the Titanfall Wiki, which I admin. The account is linked [https://titanfall.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/SpyglassUnitAlpha here] in case any proof of know-how is needed/ preferred. [[User:BaconShelf|BaconShelf]] ([[User talk:BaconShelf|talk]]) 15:38, 13 August 2018 (EDT) | |||
:Just reposting here to draw some attention to the request again, as there's currently no responses. [[User:BaconShelf|BaconShelf]] ([[User talk:BaconShelf|talk]]) 12:34, 16 August 2018 (EDT) | |||
::{{Support}} You've shown to be very responsible so I'm all for it.[[User:Sith Venator|<span style="color:green">Sith Venator</span>]] [[File:Mega Blastoise.gif|20px]] ([[User talk:Sith Venator|<span style="color:blue">Dank Memes</span>]]) 16:47, 16 August 2018 (EDT) | |||
::{{Support}} As per Sith above I agree.-[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 09:27, 12 December 2018 (EST) | |||
==Superintendent Bot Request (Dab1001)== | |||
I'd like to request permission to run a bot on my bot account, [[User:Superintendent|Superintendent]]. I intend to use the bot for general mass editing purposes, such as when a page is moved and all links to it need to be renamed (for example, Installation 04B -> Installation 08), mass addition of templates to pages, automated spell checking, etcetera. I'm requesting it now because I believe having the capability to make many automated and semi-automated edits in a short period of time may come in useful for the merger. | |||
From my time as an admin there, I have prior experience using AutoWikiBrowser to edit Halo Nation on my old bot account, [https://halo.wikia.com/wiki/User:Superintendent-class_AI Superintendent-class AI.] All of the edits I made with this bot are listed [https://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Superintendent-class_AI here.] | |||
{{User:Dab1001/Sig2}} 20:02, 8 February 2019 (EST) | |||
*{{Support}} I trust this will be used appropriately.-[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 10:18, 14 February 2019 (EST) | |||
==Grammar checker== | |||
I have a grammar checker, [[Wikipedia:LanguageTool|LanguageTool]], and if that's a thing, I would like a semi-automated bot flag. | |||
[[User:EthanGaming117|EthanGaming7640]] ([[User talk:EthanGaming117|talk]]) 14:40, August 19, 2021 (EDT) | |||
And, please vote with either <nowiki>{{Support}}</nowiki> or <nowiki>{{Oppose}}</nowiki> like in the [[Halopedia:Featured|featured]]. [[User:EthanGaming117|EthanGaming7640]] ([[User talk:EthanGaming117|talk]]) | |||
:{{Oppose}} - I would like to see you do a number of normal substantial edits and have been here for a few months before I consider the request to use the tool. :) Gives ya time and experience to know how the wiki and its community functions. | |||
:Also side note: Bot flags are for bot accounts, not for personal ones. When requesting to use tools, you wont get the bot flag unless its for a bot account. (We'll help ya with that if the time comes) | |||
:For automated stuff its best to have very rapid communication with staff and users so I will say if the time comes where we allow it. We will need you to join our Discord server to ensure stuff is done right and we know exactly what you are doing during it. | |||
:Thats my thoughts at this moment though.-[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 15:14, August 24, 2021 (EDT) | |||
::Thanks, Chris. Very cool. [[User:EthanGaming117|EthanGaming7640]] ([[User talk:EthanGaming117|talk]]) 21:23, August 24, 2021 (EDT) | |||
:{{Oppose}} - for the same reasons as given per CIA above. This was discussed in the Discord, and this view is more-or-less unanimous across the entire staff team. I'm also not sure why the added note was necessary, it was already pretty clear from what CIA wrote. [[User:BaconShelf|<span style="color:green;">BaconShelf</span>]] <span style="font-size:90%">([[User:BaconShelf|talk]])</span> 15:39, September 6, 2021 (EDT) | |||
:{{Oppose}} - Everything CIA and Bacon said. Also, you have proved to be difficult to contact in regards to your edits, and have repeatedly been neglectful in checking your edits before (and even after) you submit them. Bots and bot-adjacent tools like grammar checkers can damage the quality/presentation of articles if not used with care. [[User:TheArb1ter117|<span style="color:purple;">TheArb1ter117</span>]] <span style="font-size:90%">([[User:TheArb1ter117|talk]])</span> 16:57, September 6, 2021 (EST) | |||