Meta:Requests for bot status/Millbot-Stats

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a closed Meta-Wiki request. Please do not modify it.

Millbot-Stats

I am asking bot flag for Millbot-Stats. The purpose of the bot is to take care about statistics at the daily level (bot is gathering data at 00 and 30 minutes every hour and runs one per day to update statistics). This bot already runs (and has bot flag) at sr.wp, as well as the previous version of the bot runs at a couple of Wikinews projects (en, pl, sr). --Millosh 07:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It would take care about the templates (but not only about them; making detailed statistics for every project is possible): Template:Wikipedia statistics, Template:Wiktionary statistics, Template:Wikibooks statistics, Template:Wikinews statistics, Template:Wikisource statistics, Template:Wikiversity statistics, Template:Wikiquote statistics, Template:Wikimedia statistics. --Millosh 07:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Bot may run at any Wikimedia project if the community there wants it. Bot may be localized (User:Millbot/translations.py). --Millosh 07:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done - I'm granting this request based on the fact that its also allowed on another project and its possibly what Meta really needs, a bot that daily updates all the stats from the 700+ wikis is awesome, this is a trial basis as well and if I find bugs and errors, I will take the responsibility and would remove the flag if necessary ..--Comet styles 08:38, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) --Millosh 08:43, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wish you hadn't done this Cometstyles. You were the one complaining about people jumping the gun on bureaucrat actions, and yet you now go ahead and flag a bot before anyone has had the chance for adequate discussion. I am not going to wheel war and unflag the bot, but I'd ask you to remember this for next time. Cheers, --Anonymous Dissident^Talk 09:00, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I understand, but its on a trial basis, I really wouldn't want it to flood RC and make 100 edits before its approved, and as I mentioned above, I'll be keeping an eye on it, and yes, I never closed and removed the request because I want this to be here so that others can comment on it and provide more information on the bot, that is that if its actually doing its job, and since Meta doesn't have its own Bot policy, I'll go with the Automatic_approval for this bot because it updates the statistics of the 700+ wikis we have and since Meta is all about co-ordination between those wikis and the fact that most information we have on other wikis on Meta is really outdated and we really can't depend on people to update it every single day, can we? ..and since not much changes happens on Meta unlike other bigger wikis, it wouldn't be good to flood it unnecessary, this request will remain open for 7 days so that I can sought opinions from others regarding the bots activity and I will also ask Millosh on how to better improve this bot, I'm not sure why but I believe Meta always needed a bot like this....--Comet styles 09:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On Commons the tendency is to ask for a trial run, see what it looks like, wait a while for discussion and THEN flag it. I don't see Recent Changes being so busy here that a bit of clogging wouldn't be bad. Don't (everyone) be in a rush to grant flags, close discussions, add things to lists, etc... let the processes work. Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 02:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, all suggestions are welcome. Today I'll try to finish some code for the bot (however, it will appear in RC as User:Millbot, which I am using for testing and which shouldn't get a bot flag): --Millosh 10:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Measuring activity per day: --Millosh 10:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Number of edits, number of articles, number of users (maybe I'll add number of admins, images and so on in the future); one article per project. --Millosh 10:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Measuring activity per hour: --Millosh 10:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Similar to the previous in the form of one article per project. --Millosh 10:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In the future there will be some monthly and yearly statistics. --Millosh 10:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Quick comment. Please include Wikispecies in the stats. This is the nth time that the community forgot this project. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 05:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Do you have any statistics on that? :) ++Lar: t/c 15:42, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - I think Wikispecies stats should fall under {{Wikimedia statistics}}. Even incubator and MediaWiki are included, I don't see why everyone wants to forget about this project. Because it's too science-oriented? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:18, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      - That was a (perhaps too subtle) joke... :) I agree wikispecies should not be left out of crosswiki things like statistics gathering, and the like. ++Lar: t/c 16:07, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Time to call the question, anyone have any issues with this bot getting approval? ++Lar: t/c 16:07, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- No it's fine with me. Majorly ^talk 16:10, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - I don't view that as a big problem, just concerned with what will be included and what won't be included. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Ohana regarding your request above, I talked to millosh about it and he said he will fix it after he moves the bot to the toolserver, since right now its running on his server ...--Comet styles 21:24, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done and done.... Nobody ever "un"approved this after Comestyles did so a few min after the request was lodged, this bot has been running with the bot flag turned on since 22 Jun so I'd say this is archivable. The community approved. ++Lar: t/c 20:38, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]