Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cypbotproto


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Cypbotproto
Operator: Cypbotproto

Automatic or Manually assisted: Manually assisted

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia

Function overview: Automatic download of a number of druginfobox entries for various drugs. The intention is to later be able to contribute to the curation of these, by comparing the data with other sources. NB - any changes would be performed manually - this is a read-only bot.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): unknown, but likely to be short-term

Estimated number of pages affected: under 5000 in total

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details: Automatic download of a number of druginfobox entries for various drugs. The intention is to later be able to contribute to the curation of these, by comparing the data with other sources. NB - any changes would be performed manually - this is a read-only bot.

Discussion
First off, a bot may not operate itself. The operator mentioned on the bot's user page, User:Bpatcyprotex, has made no edits to this Wikipedia, or to any other MediaWiki wiki using that username, which makes this a prime candidate for WP:BOTNOTNOW as there is no evidence that this user has enough experience with our policies and guidelines to be trusted to run a bot. Further, there is little reason to get approval at all for a read-only bot as it will not be taking any action on-wiki, and for this particular task any advantage of having apihighlimits would probably be better served by using a database dump instead.

I suggest reading the pages you need to read from a normal account or from a database dump. Once you get to the point of proposing actual edits you could file a new request for approval, but first I strongly recommend you join WikiProject Pharmacology and/or other related WikiProjects (e.g. Medicine or Chemicals), and get some experience editing articles as a normal user. Anomie⚔ 17:53, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
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