Talk:Bot policy/Archives/2010

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Automatic approval

How fast the bot may run during a trial for automatic approval?

I have a question upon automatic approval process. While the bot is running for a week or making 100 edits as a trial period, how fast the bot may run? At intervals of over 1 minute, or at the speed of its full-scale operation? Regards. --Kanjy 15:25, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Trial edits are considered as unflagged bot edit. Should have intervals of over 60 seconds.--Kwj2772 00:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Automatic approval requirments

Hello, could someone enlighten me what exactly do 100 edits mean ? Does it mean bot has to have made 100 edits on any of the wikis that have this policy or it has to have made 100 edits on one each particular wiki it is asking to be flagged on ? The thing is that on Latvian Wikipedia we have consensus that unflagged bots are not wanted as they clog recent changes page and our local policy is that any unflagged bots can be blocked - is this in contradiction with global policy ? ~~Xil...(talk) 11:31, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Pulling data of incremental changes

Would it be acceptable to, after downloading the data dump, set up a bot to hit enwiki about twice a second, just to get copies of the latest edits in order to keep a mirror up to date? See w:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Real-time_updates_of_Wikipedia_mirror. I am not proposing a live mirror that would hit enwiki every time someone views a page on the mirror, but rather something that would hit Wikipedia at a frequency that would depend on how many edits are being made. Tisane 03:46, 11 April 2010 (UTC)