User:Beastie Bot

This is a bot created, operated and maintainer by Pengo.

Beastie Bot

 * Purpose: Create lists of species by IUCN category ("conservation status"), by taxon (e.g. mammals, mollusk), and/or by country.
 * IdeaLab: Beastie Bot on IdeaLab —Please join or give your support
 * Target articles:


 * Bot category: Automatic importer
 * Language: Beastie Bot is written in C#
 * Bot flag: Yes, now running with a bot flag.
 * Background:
 * Runtime: The bot will run as needed. It runs unaided.
 * Status: (will manually run when red list is updated, or as improvements made)
 * Logs
 * Beastie Bot contributions (includes Stage One run)


 * Examples: List of critically endangered mammals, List of critically endangered fishes
 * Stats:

Reports

 * Redirects to same title — binomial names which are listed as separate species in the IUCN Red List but redirect to the same Wikipedia article. (Many need fixing on Wikipedia)
 * IUCN common name issues
 * Dupes — common names which are used by more than one species

Rules and exceptions

 * /exceptions — rules & exceptions for naming and taxonomic hierarchy (found in Beastie Bot source code)
 * /caps — special-case capitalization rules

Features

 * Main page: Beastie Bot on IdeaLab


 * Finds common name from species or taxa name.
 * Finds correct capitalization
 * Creates a pie chart
 * Writes English sentences.
 * Splitting and clumping of sections to reasonable sizes

Source code

 * github.com/quole/beastiebot