I've placed a request for approval of a the bot us-states.py, written for me by Andre Engels, on [[Wikipedia_talk:Bots]]. As the procedure for approval of bots is sufficiently vague, I thought I'd also ask here. The bot will run on the account [[User:Sethbot]], and is designed to create redirects with US state abbrevations (so that CityName, SN redirects to CityName, StateName) in order to facilitate work on the Rambot articles on the English wikipedia. I've run the bot for just a few minutes already just to confirm that it works correctly. I'd appreciate comment on the appropriate Wikipedia page. Thanks.
-- Seth Ilys
Seth Ilys wrote:
I've placed a request for approval of a the bot us-states.py, written for me by Andre Engels, on [[Wikipedia_talk:Bots]]. As the procedure for approval of bots is sufficiently vague, I thought I'd also ask here. The bot will run on the account [[User:Sethbot]], and is designed to create redirects with US state abbrevations (so that CityName, SN redirects to CityName, StateName) in order to facilitate work on the Rambot articles on the English wikipedia. I've run the bot for just a few minutes already just to confirm that it works correctly. I'd appreciate comment on the appropriate Wikipedia page. Thanks.
-- Seth Ilys
I've said on that talk page, approving bots is not an operation which requires technical knowledge or developer assistance.
-- Tim Starling
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