Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LanguageBot

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.

LanguageBot

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Operator: PNiddy

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic

Programming Language(s):English

Function Summary: Identifies other languages of the same page and, if it exists, it automatically adds a language it.

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

Edit rate requested: 10 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details:When there is an article in another language, LanguageBot will automatically add that. This will let other editors look out for articles in different languages.

Discussion

• Comment – How does this differ from every other interwiki bot? I question whether you can write code that will perform this task adequately (in English, no less), when you seem to understand neither the terminology nor the mechanism. I will deny this task if it does not use interwiki.py, which is standard code. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

• Denied. – Upon review of user's contributions, I do not feel that this user has sufficient knowledge of Wikipedia or of bot operation necessary to run a bot a bot safely on this project. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 17:52, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

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