Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/HermesBot

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Delivery of the english wikipedia's signpost. Users will sign up here, and the bot will deliver it. Source is C#. ~  Wi ki her mit  02:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment I dont have any problem with this kind of bot being active here, but I have to wonder whether the Wikipedia signpost only includes news about Wikipedia, or if news from Wikibooks could be included in there as well. Another thing that interests me is, what would it take for Wikibooks to set up it's own news system like the signpost? We've tried to create a newsletter here in the past, but it was difficult to maintain. An opt-in automated news-delivery service might be a nice addition to Wikibooks. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 03:38, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * - Why does this need to be here? If a user would like Wikipedia news, then they should use Wikipedia. This bot has no use here unless it's doing something specific for Wikibooks and I see this as an unfortunate case of Enwikipediathink. Sure, it would be nice to have a Wikibooks newsletter like we've tried to do in the past, but I'm guessing someone local here would need to run the code. I would like to see the source before we do such a thing if it's available. -within focus 12:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Source is under work, almost finished up. I'll publish it after all the bugs are ironed out (although for such a simple task I doubt their will be any). ~  Wi ki her mit  22:58, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Source is here. ~  Wi ki her <font color="#9EE8FA">mit  03:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't realize it would be so short. I see there's a significant external framework already available that provides almost everything. Should the community here express interest, I'll take that snippet and develop it into a full application with UI and some more robust features (sleeping for ten seconds seems unusual and a bit dangerous for one). We certainly don't need Wikipedia news here but we can write a custom newsletter to spew out to interested parties. -<font color="#000000">within <font color="#7A7A7A">focus 13:34, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I have a bot program already that can deliver newsletters to people (although there is no saying that mine must be the only one, or that it is the best), what we really don't have is a newsletter for the bot to deliver! People who want the wikipedia newsletter can get it on wikipedia, so I dont think we need a bot here to deliver that. However, what we could really use are people willing to write and maintain a newsletter in a similar style to the wikipedia signpost, but focused on daily business around here. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 14:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Withinfocus: The bot uses the DotNetWikiBot Framework.
 * Whiteknight: How about users can sign up for the full signpost, or for a link that says a new signpost has been published? <font color="#0A9DC2">~  <font color="#0DC4F2">Wi <font color="#3DD0F5">ki <font color="#6EDCF7">her <font color="#9EE8FA">mit  14:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * However you want to do it, my objection isn't to receiving the full-text of the newsletter, it's to receiving news about another project, and not about Wikibooks. If we had a wikibooks newsletter, I would be perfectly fine with users opting to receive both (wikibooks newsletter and the signpost), or either. However without a Wikibooks newsletter, it really just feels like en.wp spam, or some kind of reminder that we aren't as big/good/important as en.wp. Maybe it's just a pride thing. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 15:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Whilst i am against distributing the Wikipedia signpost here at wikibooks (as it largely discusses projects and policies etc.. that do not affect us here), I would be in favour of using HermesBot, or another similar bot, to distribute a Wikibooks newsletter. Perhaps we should look into restarting the Wikibooks_Gazette project or begin a similar one. Once such a project was up and running i would be less likely to vote against a wikipedia signpost notification service. Urbane   (Talk)   (Contributions)  15:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Whiteknight: I will not run the bot unless their is community support.
 * Urbane: I would be happy to use HermesBot to deliver Wikibook's newsletter if it is restarted again. <font color="#0A9DC2">~  <font color="#0DC4F2">Wi <font color="#3DD0F5">ki <font color="#6EDCF7">her <font color="#9EE8FA">mit  16:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * per Withinfocus. Huh. -- SB_Johnny | PA! 16:21, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Not a dangerous bot and no reason to be suspicious of it. No problems with me. Xania [[Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|15px]]talk 20:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * - those of us who want Wikipedia news can get it from Wikipedia. I don't see any other purpose for this bot, and thus don't see a need to afford bot status. Webaware talk 02:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * - Since this is opt-in, I don't see any problem with it. Signpost carries Wikimedia Foundation news as well so for those of us who are primarily active here at Wikibooks, but interested in keeping up with foundation news, it might be helpful. I don't see the harm. -- xixtas  talk 03:29, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't really see a need for this type of bot whether it delivers Wikibooks news or not. Anyone whose interested in news can just as easily add the page to there watchlist. --<span style="font: bold 10pt 'courier new', comic, sans, ms;"><font color="midnightblue">dark lama  21:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll go ahead and withdraw this bot request. The bot will not deliver to the english wikibooks. <font color="#0A9DC2">~  <font color="#0DC4F2">Wi <font color="#3DD0F5">ki <font color="#6EDCF7">her <font color="#9EE8FA">mit  22:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)