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User:XaxaBot

  1. This bot is supposed to be manually run.
  2. I will run XaxaBot once, before examining the output and making any code changes. If I write code to upload pages, I will upload one page per test run.
  3. This is a python bot written in the pywikipedia framework.
  4. This bot is only for sandbox purposes. If I'm going to write a bot to help Project Echo, I need to know it's going to work before I submit it formally. I'm a bad programmer (methodologically speaking), so I need to test each line or function of code before moving on. As far as importance, I will also be using this bot to test code for bots for the Bot Request page.

More comments: In it's current state, it fails the usefulness requirement, but that will necessarily change in time. I can vouch for it's harmlessness because I meticulously check output for errors before running a real test which includes an upload action. It will not be a server hog because I will happily use database dumps (they're as good as the real thing, right?).

Basically, just a SandBot. Xaxafrad 07:01, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps the test wiki would be a better place to run this -- Tawker 18:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
If you'll only be running it in your sandbox at this point, there is no need to request approval. Do your testing in your sandbox, get it working, and then bring it back to us once it's ready to do what it's programmed to do. And be sure to tell us what it is that it's going to do (you mention Project Echo, but didn't really say what it's going to *do* for the project). Essjay (Talk) 14:44, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Just so I understand things clearly...If I ran a snippet of recursion code to progressively download every non-orphaned article with the pywikipedia framework, there's a built-in throttle so there'd be no problem, right? And so you understand clearly, any uploading will be to the bot's userpage (but I'm not working on that part yet). And that's okay? Xaxafrad 04:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)