Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Leaderbot

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Leaderbot

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Leaderbot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Leaderboard (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: phab:T370842 and meta:Global reminder bot

Code: https://github.com/Leader-board/userrights-reminder-bot, though this is under development

Function details: See the above phabricator task. It should be noted that

  • I'm submitting near-identical requests on multiple wikis, and
  • I do not expect this bot to run that much (if at all) on Wikidata and will not require a bot flag; however, Wikidata:Bots explicitly mention that approval is needed (and the botflag set which I find unnecessary and even a bad idea), and
  • Here's a test edit (the text will be generalised for Wikidata). Users will be able to opt-out from this using a central page on Meta.

P.S: I also noticed that it says that bot "should never be used to make non-automated edits in the user talk namespace" which my bot will do - not sure if there's a way out of that.

--Leaderboard (talk) 18:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you link examples of temporary rights on Wikidata? Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 16:34, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sjoerddebruin: [1], [2] and [3]. As noted above,
  • Wikidata does not make that much use of temporary rights (the flooder right is automatically ignored), and
  • many (but not all) of them are IPBE - some communities prefer that the bot exclude them. In that case it will run rarely, like in the case of the third example I shared above.
Leaderboard (talk) 05:29, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand how a bot flag is needed for a bot that makes "non-automated edits in the user talk namespace"? This may be my confusion... --Lymantria (talk) 17:11, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lymantria:, the edits are automated, just that the frequency is (very) low. Leaderboard (talk) 08:00, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd prefer that you go for a global bot account. --Lymantria (talk) 13:00, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lymantria But global bots are disabled on this wiki (see Meta:Special:WikiSets/14 where Wikidata is in the opt-out set). If there is consensus from the community that global bots should be allowed to run on Wikidata, that's fine by me as well. To reiterate, I don't even need a bot flag in the first place, just approval to run this bot (without one). Leaderboard (talk) 16:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, you are right. --Lymantria (talk) 17:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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