Operator: ProcrastinatingReader (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 13:52, Wednesday, July 22, 2020 (UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: automatic
Programming language(s): Ruby
Source code available:
Function overview: Creates a snapshot of the main page twice daily.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Talk:Main_Page/Archive_199#Main_Page_history, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Amalthea (bot)
Edit period(s): Two runs per day
Estimated number of pages affected: 2 per day
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): N/A - bot only creates pages
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No
Function details: Replacement for this bot while that bot remains down. Happy to return this task to that bot should the operator return.
Does almost exactly the same as that BRFA. Creates a page Wikipedia:Main Page history/YYYY MMMM DD(a/b). Main difference being it snapshots twice a day with suffix (a/b) depending on if the snapshot is at the morning or afternoon (to account for both DYKs). Sample edit in my sandbox: Special:Permalink/968948661
For the record, the change to archiving twice a day was discussed at Talk:Main_Page/Archive_194#Propose_archiving_Main_Page_history_twice_a_day_when_DYK_is_on_12-hour_schedule.
ProcrastinatingReader, editors (eg. PrimeHunter) preferred that the first archive of the day should not have an a in the title. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 14:03, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]