Meta:Requests for bot status/PSS 9

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PSS 9[edit]

Bot owner
Luchesar
General description
PSS 9 is an anti-vandalism sysop bot on the Bulgarian Wikipedia. Despite its shortcomings, it seems to be highly regarded by the community, and I've been (insistently) asked to once again re-activate it.
Tasks
The bot will **not** perform any edits on Meta. It only uses the Meta's API to query the globalallusers list.
Work schedule
The bot requests globalallusers once per hour.
Request rationale
Users with global rights should be “trusted” by the bot, even if it has no previous knowledge of them. Without a bot flag, the API returns up to 500 usernames (agulimit). That's OK for now, but just barely—the current list is 467 usernames long. It's technically possible to ask for smaller subsets of users (with e.g. aguprefix, agufrom, aguto), but this will be more error-prone and likely more taxing on the API. A bot flag would allow up to 5000 usernames to be returned with just one request.
Code
Available on the Bulgarian-language projects' Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.bg/source/pss9-v1/repository/master/ Login is through WMF accounts. If you are interested, please ping me to give you access to the project. The code is available only to trusted registered users because large part of the bot logic is effectively an expert system—more knowledgeable vandals with access to the code may be able to easily avoid the bot.

Thank you very much for considering this request.
— Luchesar • T/C 14:54, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]


User is requesting global apihighlimits-requestor permissions instead. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:37, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]


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