Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MisterWikiBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Denied.

MisterWikiBot

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: MisterWiki

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic.

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: standard pywikipedia

Function overview: To welcome users, because I can't on this account.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 4000 or 5000

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details:

• Welcome new users

Discussion

Denied. Sorry, but a welcoming bot is a commonly declined task, and there is no consensus for it. If you can manage to generate a consensus for it, then that's fine. The main problem is that a welcome bot is less personal, (see Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots). If you come up with a different idea for a bot, that'd be great! Feel free to start up another BRfA :). Best, - Kingpin¹³ (talk) 16:45, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

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