User:Wikisource-bot

It is seen that this is a Wikisource community derived bot, currently hosted on Toollabs: and will undertake basic maintenance tasks and required by the community. It is currently operated by billinghurst, mpaa and John Vandenberg, and other willing participants are welcome to approach one of those local administrators to request access. At a point, we will work out how the community can manage this bot, and appoint its maintainers; and determine how it can be most useful for the broader Wikisource community, rather than just English Wikisource. Wikisource-bot (talk) 14:29, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

At this point in time, the tasks to be undertaken
 * Archiving talk pages. Currently only English Wikisource, other wikis welcome to be added upon request
 * Patrol whitelist (pending). A means to patrol the edits of people by defined means, eg. by work.

User talk page archiving
This bot is using archivebot.py to undertake archiving of user talk pages, and functions in the same way as MiszaBot at other wikis. Instructions on configuration are similar to those explained at w:User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo

Variables
Those python-savvy people will immediately recognize these variables are filled at runtime with the % operator and should know how to adjust the format. A few points of interest to others:
 * make sure you don't mess up the last letter after the brackets (it's "d" for integers and "s" for strings)
 * integer variables may be left-padded with zeros:
 * %(counter)03d evaluates to 013 if the counter's value equals 13,
 * %(month)02d becomes 05 for May etc.

Typical example
your username

Delaying or preventing archiving of particular threads
Archiving can be delayed for a particular thread by substituting the template DNAU into the thread. Use  to retain a thread indefinitely, or   to retain a thread for days. see the template documentation for details about its use and function.