User:RFC bot

This bot has proudly taken up residence on the Wikimedia Toolserver.

The point of this bot used to be to maintain a template known at wider attention list, however it has taken on the bigger and nobler job of automating the several WP:RFC lists.

This bot is based on the Python Wikipedia framework and was coded mostly by User:Betacommand, with highly important bug fixes by User:Gmaxwell and text specification, minor updates, and whining by User:Messedrocker. The code is available on Botwiki under the MIT license

How it works
The new automated RFC lists are generated through the transclusion of a template on a page. The bot frequently examines the template transclusions and then adds appropriate pages to the list.

Let's say for example you were requesting comments for a politics-related dispute. To list a discussion, you would do this:

The listed discussions are sorted chronologically and the tags are removed from the discussions after 30 days.

If the RFC is wrongly formatted, then it will not be listed! Instead, it will accumulate on http://tools.wikimedia.de/~messedrocker/RFC_bot_template_errors.txt this list]. The more frequently the page is named, the longer it has gone unfixed.

Feature requests
If you would like the bot to do something different, or would like to do something new, please state below.