User:Wikisource-bot
 | This user account is a bot operated by Billinghurst (talk), John Vandenberg (talk), Mpaa (talk) and Ankry (talk). It is not a sock puppet but rather a legitimate alternative account, used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
It is seen that this is a Wikisource community derived bot, currently hosted on Toollabs: and will undertake basic maintenance tasks and required by the community. It is currently operated by billinghurst, mpaa and John Vandenberg, and other willing participants are welcome to approach one of those local administrators to request access. At a point, we will work out how the community can manage this bot, and appoint its maintainers; and determine how it can be most useful for the broader Wikisource community, rather than just English Wikisource. Wikisource-bot (talk) 14:29, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
At this point in time, the tasks to be undertaken
- Archiving talk pages. Currently only English Wikisource, other wikis welcome to be added upon request
- Patrol whitelist (pending). A means to patrol the edits of people by defined means, eg. by work.
User talk page archiving
This bot is using archivebot.py to undertake archiving of user talk pages, and functions in the same way as MiszaBot at other wikis. Instructions on configuration are similar to those explained at w:User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo
Parameters explained
{{User:wikisource-bot/config
| archive =
| algo =
| counter =
| maxarchivesize =
| minthreadsleft =
| minthreadstoarchive =
| archiveheader =
| key =
}}
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| archive | Name of the page to which archived threads will be put. This parameter supports the use of variables, which can be used to create dynamically named archives (such as using date ranges). Note that magic words and templates do not work with this parameter, and unless a key is supplied (see below), the target page must be a subpage of the current page. |
| algo | Algorithm that instructs the bot how to decide whether to archive a thread or not. Complex formulas (including regex matching) will be available in the future, but so far it must be of the form old(...) where ... specifies the maximum age of a thread (in hours or days: 24h, 72h, 5d, 21d etc.) |
| counter | The current value of the counter. If the %(counter)d variable is not used, it is ignored. MiszaBot will update this parameter as necessary. |
| maxarchivesize | The maximum archive size before incrementing the counter. Ignored if counter is not used. The values used must be in a #K format, using a capital letter "K". For example: maxarchivesize=256K |
| minthreadsleft | The minimum number of threads that should be left on a page (to prevent pages from getting completely harvested). Default value: 5 |
| minthreadstoarchive | The minimum number of threads to archive at one time, which is used to lower edit frequency. MiszaBot will not archive threads when fewer than the value of this parameter would be archived. Default value: 2 |
| archiveheader | Content that will be put on new archive pages as the header. This parameter supports the use of variables. The value of this parameter Cannot be multiline! Use a template such as {{archive header}} at English Wikisource. The Default value is {{talk archive}}. |
Variables
| Variable parameter | Expands to... |
|---|---|
| %(counter)d | the current value of the counter |
| %(year)d | year of the thread being archived |
| %(month)d | month (as a number 1-12) of the thread being archived |
| %(monthname)s | English name of the month above |
| %(monthnameshort)s | first three letters of the name above |
Those python-savvy people will immediately recognize these variables are filled at runtime with the % operator and should know how to adjust the format. A few points of interest to others:
- make sure you don't mess up the last letter after the brackets (it's "d" for integers and "s" for strings)
- integer variables may be left-padded with zeros:
- %(counter)03d evaluates to 013 if the counter's value equals 13,
- %(month)02d becomes 05 for May etc.
Typical example
{{User:wikisource-bot/config your username
| archive = User talk:/Archives/%(year)d
| algo = old(31d)
| archiveheader = {{archive header}}
}}
Delaying or preventing archiving of particular threads
Archiving can be delayed for a particular thread by substituting the template {{DNAU}} into the thread. Use {{subst:DNAU}} to retain a thread indefinitely, or {{subst:DNAU|<integer>}} to retain a thread for <integer> days. see the template documentation for details about its use and function.