Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/polbot

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] polbot

tasks • contribs • count • sul • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • flag bot

Operator: Quadell

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic and supervised.

Programming Language(s): perl, perlwikipedia

Function Summary: For missing U.S. representatives listed here, read and parse info from the Congressional bioguide, format and wikify the data, and then upload as a new article.

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

Edit rate requested: 2 4 edits per minute

Function Details: Source code is at User:Polbot/source. The sub GetBioInfo() takes a URL as a parameter and returns the new wikified article as a string. An interface with Wikipedia still needs to be written.

[edit] Discussion

This would be my first bot. I still need to interface it with perlwikipedia to actually create the articles, but I wanted to get approval first. An example of an article created with this script (but manually submitted to Wikipedia) is Asa Hodges. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 18:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Approved for trial. for 50 edits. --ST47Talk 20:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Wow! That was fast! I still have to get perlwikipedia to run on my Windows box (or get access to a *nix account to play on), so I'm not sure how ling it'll be before I get that trial going. I'll note here once it's happened. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 21:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Shadow has fixed the perlwikipedia errors with windows :) 24.0.77.225 21:55, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

I got perlwikipedia to work, so it shouldn't be long now. . . – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 15:19, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

And the test run is now complete. :D – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 20:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that you have a blank line at [1], can you remove it so there isn't as much space at the top of the article when viewed? --ST47Talk 17:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Approved. --ST47Talk 17:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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