On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:02 am, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> Looks like you've done you're homework. To run the bot the first time,
> I'd set the delay to something nice and long like 30 seconds, and run
> it at some off-peak hour, and go to RecentChanges and check its work
> while it runs.
>
> But if this is something that will need to be done a lot, then we
> probably should look at doing it directly to the backend database,
> because that will use less server bandwidth and not clutter up the
> recent changes and the article histories.
>
> And yes, I'd like to see the code before you unleash it.
Eh? Why not just "approve" the bot so that any edits made by user:Timbot do
not show-up in RC? Then Tim can run the bot at full speed and not bug
anybody. But a developer should take a look at the code first, as you say.
--mav