Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MathFoRBot

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 Denied.

[edit] MathFoRBot

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Operator: Mathfor

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic.

Programming Language(s): Python and Java.

Function Summary: Data-mining tasks to extract information about mathematical expressions used in Wikipedia.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Daily.

Function Details: MathFoR is an academic project developed at the Freie Universität Berlin, which aims to develop Java libraries for the recognition of mathematical notation. MathFoRBot will locate the math-tag within Wikipedia pages in oder to compute some statistics about the usage of symbols and mathematical notation. This and other data-mining tasks will serve to improve recognition rates of our recognizers.

[edit] Discussion

The bot does not yet have a user page. Could you please create one that includes {{bot|Mathfor}} at the top? Kind regards, — E ^talk_bots 08:51, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

If you are just reading content, please use a database dump. You can extract these into a local copy of the MediaWiki software, and read values directly. You can see the avilable downloads at the download site Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 08:53, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Does this need approval? It's not actually writing anything... GrooveDog (talk) 16:23, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Nope, and as TheFearow pointed out, he shouldnt be crawling WP like that... Reedy Boy 19:34, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Waiting for the bot operator to acknowledge that downloading the database dumps will serve his purpose, whereupon either he can withdraw his request or the BAG will deny it. — madman bum and angel 03:38, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Our objective is not actually write new content. We will try to work with a local copy of Wikipedia and consider a new request later. Thank you very much for the discussion... MathFoR 9:46, 9 August(UTC)

Ok. Can I close this request, since it is not necessary? Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 09:04, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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