Michael Hale, 02/04/2013 07:31:
Oh, I thought bot approval was just for tasks that have an indefinite running time like cleaning vandalism, etc. I added a user-agent string to identify my IP address, but I hadn't run into problems on Wikipedia without one before. Am I supposed to re-apply each time I change a script?
No, you're supposed not to use an IP at all: bot should run on bot accounts. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bot
Nemo