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Global bot approval request for KiranBOT

MathBot

Hello, Bot experts,

MathBot doesn't seem to be operating and the bot operator Oleg Alexandrov hasn't been active for a few months now. The bot is primarily active managing AFD pages and, for example, it didn't create the AFD log for tomorrow, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2025 April 27. I've dropped an email to the Oleg but I also thought I'd post a note here in case there are any bot pros who could check on things so that the AFD process can continue to operate smoothly. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 19:10, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

:Just to update this: Oleg has left a message here: Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#Help maintaining the bot that indexes old articles, but it seems to indicate it's not his or a Mathbot problem. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 01:36, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

::FWIW - we clearly have a really big bus factor problem with this. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 01:37, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

:::Huh, I thought AnomieBOT did logs, must just be TFD... looks like the bot's code is public so if someone wants to take it over it should be fairly easy to do so (at least from that perspective). Primefac (talk) 09:27, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

::::If it's not possible, WP:AALERTS provides essentially the same functionality with Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Article alerts/Archive 1, /Archive 2, Archive 3, etc... Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 10:24, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

::::I can take over, however it will be done only at the end of the coming week. – robertsky (talk) 14:03, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

::::Hmmm... pinging @DreamRimmer as well as they are listed on the bot's toolforge page. – robertsky (talk) 14:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

::::{{ping|Anomie}} feels like a natural ping. Izno (talk) 15:34, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

::::: If we decide a replacement bot is needed, I could look into it. If additional maintainers can be added to the existing bot and there are some volunteers for that, that'd be faster though. Anomie 23:00, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

:Just a side note, the original bot uses cgi scripting. the logic can be seen on [https://github.com/oleg-alexandrov/mathbot/tree/master/afd github here] —usernamekiran (talk) 17:41, 27 April 2025 (UTC)