Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20140129045228/@comment-100066-20140130123528

I have steered away from Python (even though I learned it originally) because Nathan is right; it is much harder to fix when you get it wrong. I could take another stab at a lesson...

I use AWB for most of my bot functions and it works great (think of the re-datings of the solicitation from a few weeks ago). However, I do have to do a lot of work on the backend through VBScript and Excel to generate the pagename lists that AWB needs. Anyone who is going to start up another bot should have some time and some programming skills, in my opinion. When you break something with a bot, you break it badly :(

If the main thrust of this concern is the stale Move category, everyone may want to just put that task at the top of their "to do" list and just grind it out by hand. That will probably get it done faster than it will take to get a bot and human up and running.

If the main concern is the need for another working bot in case mine becomes sentient and turns against me, I'm all for that and I can help out with whatever is needed.