Wikispecies:Bots/Requests for approval/KasparBot

KasparBot

Hello, I am requesting bot status for my authority control bot:

• Operator: User:T.seppelt
• Bot name: KasparBot (contributions)
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: automatic
• Programming language: Java (own framwork)
• Already has a bot flag on: 20 projects, not on Wikispecies
• Purpose: handle authority control information and improve the Wikidata usage as stated in en:Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KasparBot and en:Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KasparBot 2
• Technical details: The bot runs periodically and tries to clean up Category:Pages using authority control with parameters. After that {{Authority control}} will be added to wikispecies articles with authority control information on Wikidata.
• Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one larger run at the beginning, then daily but just with a couple of edits every night
• Edit rate requested: 20/min, but only for the first time. Later it's going to be slower

-- T.seppelt (talk) 05:52, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Discussion

[Any questions, answers and conference here, please.]

Votes

1.  Support. T.seppelt is a highly-experienced editor and bot user. This activiity is being undertaken at my request. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:45, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
2.  Support. Seems reasonable to me so I am good with this. Faendalimas ^talk 22:51, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Bots in a trial period

• KasparBot, as per above.

Approved for trial (7 days). Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 22:17, 17 April 2016 (UTC).

@Tommy Kronkvist:  Done I didn't notice any malfunction so far. Please have a look at the edits. -- T.seppelt (talk) 13:02, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

I checked a random sample of around ten edits, finding no errors, yet much that is beneficial. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:01, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

A great new feature to Wikispecies. Thank you! --Murma174 (talk) 15:04, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

@Tommy Kronkvist: Are you happy to approve this, fully, now? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:42, 20 April 2016 (UTC).

@Pigsonthewing: I can't see any problems with the bot, but formally I think the full seven day trial period should expire before any bureaucrat decides to approve or disapprove the bot's final status. Besides, yes it really is a formality: all bots are full members of the "bot" user group during the entire trial period (see User talk:KasparBot), or else they wouldn't be able to do any proper trialling. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 17:03, 20 April 2016 (UTC).