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Approved.

JJMC89 bot 16[edit]

Operator: JJMC89 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 04:39, Monday, October 15, 2018 (UTC)

Function overview: Reports inactive interface administrators

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: After approval

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Request

Edit period(s): Monthly

Estimated number of pages affected: 1

Namespace(s): Wikipedia

Exclusion compliant: Yes

Function details: Reports inactive interface administrators to Wikipedia:Interface administrators' noticeboard.

Inactive is currently defined as

not having any edits/logged actions for 2 months, or
not editing a CSS/JS page, excluding the editor's own, for 6 months.

Message copy:

== Inactive interface administrators <date> ==

The following interface administrator(s) are inactive:
* ((admin|1=<user1>))
* ((admin|1=<user2>))
...
* ((admin|1=<usern>))
~~~~

Discussion[edit]

I'm the 'requester' for this, so would prefer if someone else from BAG can review for trial. Very low risk as it only will edit one page. For testing I suggest just tweaking the month thresholds to days to ensure it runs and produces output in a useful format. Perhaps @SQL: could approve the trial? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:00, 15 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It edits one page, one time a month. Seems extremely uncontroversial, and run by an experienced botop. I don't see a way that this could possibly go sideways and cause disruption to the project. Let's see how it works, with Xaosflux's suggestion above, if you'd like.

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let us know when you're happy with the results. SQL ^{Query me!} 15:48, 15 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Trial complete. 1 edit using days instead of months. (I used a different template to avoid pings in the trial.) Most recent CSS/JS edit for active:

Most recent CSS/JS edit (within 6 months) for inactive:

— JJMC89 (T·C) 01:54, 17 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Appears to do what it says on the tin. Approved. SQL ^{Query me!} 02:04, 17 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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