Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/QUBot

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QU TalkQu 20:53, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Bot: User:QUBot
 * Operator: User:QuiteUnusual
 * Automatic or Manually: Manually
 * Language: Python
 * Source: Pywikipediabot
 * Function: ad hoc non controversial maintenance that would flood RC. For example, I've been adding to uncategorised pages. Now I've got it working properly I plan to update pages in batches of 100 which would flood the RC. I also plan to perform similar bulk categorisations to images (e.g, adding a personal image category to images that are only on user pages). The bot always runs under my supervision, each edit is checked in "real time" by me. The bot would also be available in the future for other similar actions on request where I could do them myself with a pseudo-bot flag but would prefer to execute with a non-elevated account.
 * This sounds like a good idea to me, especially since it will be closely monitored by QU. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 21:48, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * What Jomegat said. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 07:00, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Not worthy of discussion. Anything operated by QuiteUnusual can certainly be given a bot flag.--ЗAНИA [[Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|15px]]talk 11:16, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * A random sampling of revisions suggests the bot is operating fine and is likely to continue to do so. --dark lama  15:54, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol support vote.svg Support Sounds fine to me. It's the kind of thing I'd expect would be done with AutoWikiBrowser under an admin who has set themselves to have the pseudo-bot flag anyway.  Separating it out to another account will keep QU's contributions clean for those who like to follow them. – Adrignola discuss 17:20, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Just FYI, the reason I do it like this is that most of the time I'm Javascript constrained due to the security policies where I work. This makes loading up and editing pages a tedious affair. There's certainly no way I could run AWB effectively. The QUBot account in contrast runs from my server in the "cloud" meaning it can tick away in the background while I just watch it go through on RC. Then I only need to actually edit pages where there's more work to be done that just the simple add text the script does. QU TalkQu 22:48, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Done. With no objections, I see no reason not to grant the flag. – Adrignola discuss 05:02, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks QU TalkQu 15:48, 24 February 2012 (UTC)