Meta:Requests for bot status/PSS 9

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

PSS 9

PSS 9 (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.

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]

Hello @Iliev: If the bot is not going to perform any edit here, and just needs the bot flag for 'apihighlimits', there's an API high limit requestors that might suit your bot better. What do you think? Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:00, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MarcoAurelio, thank you very much for the prompt reply. Yes, this seems like the most appropriate solution for this case. Where should I ask for such flag?
— Luchesar • T/C 15:04, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Iliev: You may apply at Steward requests/Global permissions#Requests for other global permissions. Best regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:10, 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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