Halopedia talk:Bots

Bllasae's Bot

I am here, requesting a bot flag, because I am running a currently unregistered bot on the Wiki, and would appreciate a bot flag so that I can run the bot without people yelling at me. Anyways, the things my bot(currently) does: a.)Checks for dead links on Halopedia(I upload the logs and post them on my profile.) b.)I run a spell checking script, which lets me manually edit spelling errors. Bllasae

As this has been 4 months without an answer, I would like to present my request to the community.Bllasae 17:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to have to say no on this. File:CommanderTony Logo.PNGGeneral Tony, Administrator of Halopedia^Talk 6/09/2008

Can I have an explanation of why, please?Bllasae 19:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

PATX's Bot

I am requesting a bot flag because my bot (patxBot) is now banned because of my lack of having this flag. My bot is not yet done but he dose run on the IRC on channel ##patx. But as soon as I find out how to make a family for the pywikipedia bot software *PATX looks hopefully towards Manticore*. And as soon as I have done this My bot will welcome new users. Now if you guys are probaly thinking "no way. that would take away the prpose of un-bot users welcoming new users. plus PATX is stupid can not even make his own family" well thats where you are wrong (apart from the stupid part) this file I will use takes breaks and allows others to welcome the new users. Hope you consider this. Oh and if you say no could you please say why? -- PATX

We don't typically let banned users run around the place with bots. Epic nothx. — Manticore [ Admin • IRC • HOTM • Bot ] 14:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

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 w:c:scratchpad.

Bungie.net posts new 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 w:c:scratchpad:Challenges, w:c:scratchpad:Challenges/2010-September, and w:c: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.

This bot would allow for a neat, orderly, and complete record of Halo: Reach's challenges over the course of the game's life. I would like to continue updating this wiki manually while testing my bot on the Scratchpad wiki for at least the next couple of days. I can of course make any changes you'd like and furnish the source code if anyone would like to see it. Thank you very much for your time, please let me know what you think. --31stCenturyMatt 22:45, September 28, 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. --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. - File:Major.png Nìcmávr ^(Tálk) 09:32, 3 November 2010 (EDT)