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

Time filed: 22:35, Friday, August 30, 2019 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard pywikibot

Function overview: Implements page caching functionality for template calls with a long runtime, will primarily be used for automated portals.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests#A Bot to update Portal's In the news section

Edit period(s): Hourly, but longer intervals can be specified in template

Estimated number of pages affected: 1-500 depending on how many portals choose to use it.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: Substitute the template specified in ((User:PearBOT/Template cache)) between comments <!--Template cache top--> and <!--Template cache top--> at time intervals specified in the template. I changed the update frequency from daily as proposed in the botreq to hourly since I found three major changes in two hours while testing, which is a lot more activity than I thought there would be. This task will be run on toolforge.

Discussion[edit]

• Approved for trial (10 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Please post results (preferably a contribs permalink) when done and take all the time you need. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 05:46, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  TheSandDoctor, Trial complete. 10 edits, no problems found. --Trialpears (talk) 10:03, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As the original requestor for the BOT I can confirm that the output is at par with my expectation. Arman ^(Talk) 05:38, 22 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. Primefac (talk) 16:28, 22 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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