Wiktionary:Votes/2014-10/Request for bot status: WingerBot

Request for bot status: WingerBot

• Voting on: Enable bot WingerBot (talk • contribs), a bot created by Benwing (talk • contribs). The purpose of this bot is to automate the modification of Arabic headword templates in certain ways. The only current function is to automatically vocalize Arabic words based on the transliteration. Future functions I'm contemplating are standardizing the transliteration (which currently uses all sorts of competing systems), and removing the manual transliteration when the auto-transliteration would be the same or would be more accurate than the manual translit. This is documented in more detail on the bot's actual page. I've already done test runs of the automatic vocalization using my own account and then using the bot's account. The source code used is described on the bot's page, and can be made available upon request. BTW: Is there really a 36-day wait before allowing such a bot to be enabled? That seems a very long time.

• Vote starts: 00:01, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
• Vote ends: 23:59, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

• Vote created: Benwing (talk) 07:12, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
• Discussion:

  Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2014/October#Empowering WingerBot

  Wiktionary talk:Votes/2014-10/Request for bot status: WingerBot

Support

1. Support --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:59, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
2. Support --Vahag (talk) 07:30, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
3. Support — Keφr 07:41, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
4. Support, but I think that WingBot would have been a better name. --WikiTiki89 13:21, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
   • Me too, but that name was taken (on some other project). Benwing (talk) 11:21, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
     • Could I ask someone to close this vote? Benwing (talk) 23:45, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Decision

Passes 4–0–0, I guess. Have we got any active bureaucrats besides Stephen to flip the bit? — Keφr 06:28, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

@Stephen G. Brown, please help us close this, if you can. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:14, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Bot flag added. —Stephen ^(Talk) 02:09, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Stephen. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 02:23, 6 November 2014 (UTC)