Talk:Steward requests/Bot status

RoboDick

I'm not good at English but I will ask a botbitje for RoboDick I am from Holland. 83.85.216.40 21:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

jawiki bug?

i have today been unable to give botbits on ja.wiki, getting the following error message:

Bad interwiki username: Bogus database suffix "jawiki"

yes i checked and rechecked the syntaxis over and again (it did work for the other bots, didn't it?) and also checked the software versions of meta and ja, but they were identical, so i do not understand what is wrong here with the steward interface? oscar 23:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Is it because jawiki located at Korean cluster, (quoted: and can't be directly accessed or manipulated from the Florida cluster)? Borgx 00:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Boilerplate

I assume no-one minds if I add the following section above "Current requests"? It is a boilerplate template similar to the one at Requests for permissions. If no-one minds, I'll add it tomorrow.

<nowiki>
==Boilerplate template for bot requests==
The text below is a template for requesting bot permissions on a wiki. Please copy it and complete the two required points, plus other salient information.
<pre>
===== [[:xx:User:bot name]] =====
I request that [[:xx:User:bot name]] gets bot flag on ''project name'':
*'''Language Code:''' XX
*'''Local Request Link:''' [[:xx:Project:XXXXX]]
*'''Local User Page:''' [[:xx::User:XXXXX]]
Thank you. ~~~~

Be sure to indicate that you have gotten community approval (if there is no community, please indicate that)
Be sure to include all the required information requested. Without it, your request cannot be processed.

</nowiki>

Jon Harald Søby 10:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Get first community approval, or not?

Now many requests are done by users who request it on meta together with there request on there local wiki. The result is mostly a comment form a steward that the need to wait. This is because it seems that on many requests for botstatus is written that the need to request it on there local wiki and on meta. But I would be more practical if the first get approval on there local wiki and only after that come to request it in meta.

Thoughts about this? --Walter 15:42, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot policy and bot flag request template page

I've created a template for a bot policy and bot flag request page based on the bot policy page at no so that users requesting bot flag on wikis with no such policy can easily create it. Please review the text and once it becomes stable I'll add a link on the corresponding section of this page. --Ascánder 21:07, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bot flagging now bureaucrat task

Just a quick note (cross posted to Talk:Stewards and Talk:Requests for permissions for full disclosure) that an extension has now been enabled making bot flagging a task for local bureaucrats (accomplished through the Special:Makebot interface). This allows for both flagging and deflagging. Knowing that bot flagging has been described as a less-than-happy-task by stewards, I assume bot requests will now be handled like Requests for permissions; that is, if there is a local bureaucrat, stewards won't set them any longer. Am I correct in this? (I'll be watching here for requests from en.wiki; I've already cleaned up what I could find.) I suppose this would be the right place for discussion of this (as opposed to the other two pages I've cross-posted). Essjay (Talk • Connect) 09:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC) [reply]

In my opinion, bot requests are now no different to admin requests (apart from the fact bureaucrats can also remove bot privileges). Therefore, stewards shouldn't handle them in situations where there is an active local bureaucrat. Angela 10:36, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notification

Did people stop notifying local Wikis when a bot flag had been turned on? We've got a load of pending requests on tg:Википедиа:Ботҳо that appear to have not been fulfilled, but some of the bots aren't showing up in the recent changes anymore. Is this policy or just forgetfulness? :) - FrancisTyers 19:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Probably forgetfulness... Many request and more to come. I have ~85 community input requests for bot status in progress. Many on wiki's with no bureaucrats... I've also seen PipepBot requests almost everywhere I went. Cheers! Siebrand 23:00, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]