The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Speedily Approved.

Operator: Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl/AWB

Source code available: AWB, yes; Perl no.

Function overview: Update recent chages pages for projects

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Watchlist_update_needed

Edit period(s): Continous

Estimated number of pages affected: Currently 1 per run, frequency likely to be weekly or monthly

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: Task formerly done by User:WatchlistBot inactive since 2007

Should be straightforward. Rich Farmbrough 11:54, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, you may be aware that Ohms Law Bot is approved to do this (you commented on the task request) The bot hasn't edited for a while but the op still seems to be active. Also the original request was that someone user AWB to do this, and it would be fairly simple to do manually with AWB. On the other hand this is an uncontroversial previously approved task.. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 12:06, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I had forgotten that BRFA - which BTW is user-space only. I had to restrain myself from doing a manual update - that sort of stuff becomes a "job for life" which is why I'm trying to turn as much as possible over to bots. Rich Farmbrough, 16:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Actually, Ohms Law Bot is also approved to edit WikiProject subpages. Still, I see no problem with this, it's a simple task so shouldn't be possible to mess up, also uncontroversial and previously approved Speedily Approved. - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 10:25, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA.