Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EagleAstroidBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Approved.

[edit] EagleAstroidBot

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Operator: Eagle 101 talk
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automated
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Summary: To create articles on asteroids with infoboxes in the userspace
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run
Edit rate requested: Five per minute
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function details: The bot would create articles on asteroids with infoboxes in them, but only in the userspace, and the articles would have to manually be added to the mainspace after more detail is added. There would be about 13,000 articles created. Only asteroids with official names would have articles created by the bot.

[edit] Function

In essence the bot will be grabbing data from http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1 whose information is supposed to be in the public domain. The relevant information will go to infoboxes and help create stub class articles either in mainspace or in userspace. The bot will not overwrite an existing article. When the source is complete I will release it under GPL v2. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 06:35, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Data that is grabbed by the bot is as follows:

Astroid: 1 Ceres Cat: Main-belt Asteroid Discovered: Discovered 1801-Jan-01 by Piazzi, G. at Palermo Orbital elements time: Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454200.5 (2007-Apr-10.0) TDB
---Orbital elements---
e: 0.0797601732738271 a: 2.76595642396794 q: 2.5453432603244 Q: 2.5453432603244 i: 10.5867116079954
node: 80.4069591479241 peri: 73.15073411326651 M: 215.800962246862 period: 1680.221074097372<br>4.60 n: .2142575197691738
---Physical parameters---
H: 3.34 mag G: 0.12   diameter: diameter 952.4 extent: extent 974.6 x 909.4 GM: GM 63.2 rot_per: 9.075 h
albedo: 0.090   BV: .713 mag UB: .426 mag spec_T: G   spec_B: C  

[edit] Discussion

Since I don't think there's any real risk with this, Approved for trial (50 edits). --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs 10:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I was expecting a bit more time taken here, I don't even have the thing finished ;) —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 17:53, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I should elaborate that there will be a few tests in the sandbox first, and I may hand the bot off to Daniel to run. (Running bots is not hard, and I dislike having to monitor them). —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 17:55, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Bot works, some flaws were fixed while on trial, but no flaws for the last 10 or so pages, so I can assume all is well. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 22:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Approved. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs 23:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Fixed closing of this BRFA. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 08:01, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure what the noincludes are trying to do, but it wasn't fixed before. I've had another go at fixing the format of this page. --ais523 08:44, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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