Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MilHistBot 10

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Approved.

MilHistBot 10

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Operator: Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 01:29, Tuesday, February 10, 2026 (UTC)

Function overview: Maintain the participants list of a MilHist task force (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military aviation task force).

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): C#

Source code available: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/milhistbot-membership

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators#Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military aviation task force

Edit period(s): monthly

Estimated number of pages affected: 57

Namespace(s): Wikipedia

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Go through the membership of a MilHist task force (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military aviation task force) and comment out members inactive for more than 365 days. Uncomment members who were inactive but have now resumed activity.

Discussion

Which are the 20 pages that this affects? – SD0001 (talk) 09:46, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The pages in Category:WikiProject Military history task forces. Actually, there are 57 pages. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:55, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (2 weeks). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. – SD0001 (talk) 03:57, 26 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete.

The regular monthly run will not do nearly this much work. There was a backlog that the bot run was written to address. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:15, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawkeye7: Why is the bot adding duplicate comment tags here? – DreamRimmer ■ 16:51, 17 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Two {{user}} templates on the one line. Some special code will be required to deal with this unusual situation. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:40, 17 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Made the correction and run off another run. Due to the last one, this is a more typical run:

Hawkeye7 (discuss)

Approved. – DreamRimmer ■ 13:35, 18 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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