User:BücherBot

Task
This bot automatically generates a bookshelf based on stored books created with the book tool.

Name
Bücher is German for books. The bot should actually be called "BookshelfBot", but I prefer to keep using my existing account with this bot.

Background
The book tool offers to store and share created books. Stored books are common wiki pages that use a special syntax to describe the books content. All stored books are assigned to the category Wikipedia books. This category gets crowded quickly and offers no good access to the list of available books. Adding (a large number of) books to categories is no good option, since those would quickly become cluttered with books instead of articles.

Solution
This bot creates pages that make the books easily accessible by titles or keywords.

Structure of the created pages

 * Wikipedia:Bookshelf
 * Main page of the bookshelf with links to A-Z title and A-Z keyword pages. The list of major keywords can be transcluded also. (this page is not generated)


 * Wikipedia:Bookshelf/A-Z/
 * A-Z navigation with links to a sorted (by title) list of books


 * Wikipedia:Bookshelf/A-Z/0  (0,1,2, ...N)
 * N pages with M books listed (sorted by title)


 * Wikipedia:Bookshelf/Keywords A-Z/
 * A-Z naviation with links to a list of books, grouped by keyword


 * Wikipedia:Bookshelf/Keywords A-Z/0  (0,1,2, ...N)
 * N pages with M books grouped by keyword (sorted by title within a group)


 * Wikipedia:Bookshelf/Keywords A-Z/Index
 * A-Z sorted list of all keywords used in the bookshelf


 * Wikipedia:Bookshelf/Config
 * configuration of the bot who created the bookshelf

Keywords
Each book is assigned N keywords. Those are created based on the most frequent category-names used by the articles in a book.

Technique & Operation

 * the bot runs manually assisted
 * the bot operates at unspecified intervals
 * the bot is based on the Pywikipediabot framework

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