Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Numbo3-bot 3

{{Newbot|Numbo3-bot}}

Operator: Numbo3 (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: autonomous

Programming Language(s): Python, Perl

Function Summary: Beside working on interwiki links (see initial request) and doing the update of Template:Popular_articles (see request), I request an approval for editing also Template:Linked on Google News with my bot, see this discussion. This request is very similar to my second request, actually this request should be covered by the previous one already; but this one is just for not getting blocked randomly.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): continuously (template update: hourly)

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: Updates Template:Linked on Google News hourly, see idea.

{{BotTrial|days=1}} Looks very similar to previous, and only updates one template, once an hour. Let's see it. – Quadell ^(talk) 13:04, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

:Odd timing, that you started this trial right before MJ died. I'd imagine this is more Wikipedia hits from Google News than we've had in months. – Quadell ^(talk) 14:06, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Are you done with the trial? It's kind of hard to go through the diffs for this task, what with all the interwiki that the bot also does. – Quadell ^(talk) 18:13, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

:Yes. Didn't know that I was going to be allowed to specify the test period ;-) The process is in a productive mode since filing this request, actually. @interwiki: see initial request. Like wrote, it is pretty the same task like the one of request #2; so, well tested (one single template anyway). --- Kind regards, Numbo3 (talk) 11:08, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

{{BotApproved}} Mr.Z-man 04:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

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