Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Eubot

User:Eubot
I have used this account to add templates to Dutch municipalities, and later to add articles about Dutch villages and towns. Now I want to create articles for Italian municipalities (see the example at User:Eubot/Moretta). Until now, the bot has run without a bot flag without any complaints. Because there are a lot of Italian municipalities to be added, I would like my bot to have a bot flag now. Eugène van der Pijll 21:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Looks good, out of interest, where is the information from and what software do you use? Martin 21:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * The information ultimately comes from istat, the Italian statistical institute. I have not yet downloaded that data, however; these same articles have been added to the Dutch wikipedia recently, and I have asked the bot owner over there if he can provide all of the data in an easy-to-use format. I'll be using a Perl script, written completely by myself. Eugène van der Pijll 21:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Would you mind providing a link to that institute website and tell us what license it uses for those datas? --WinHunter (talk) 02:19, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been told the data on Italian municipalities has been uploaded to the Italian wikipedia: it:Wikipedia:Data/Comuni. I will probably use those files as source. The copyright page of Istat says: Dati ed analisi dell’Istituto nazionale di statistica possono essere scaricati, utilizzati e pubblicati a condizione di citarne la fonte. ("Data... can be used... on the condition of citing the source.")
 * This kind of factual/statistical data is ineligible for copyright in the United States, though not necessarily in other countries. Dragons flight 22:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems good (as one would hope, given the name) on the basis of user-space drafts. Can you clarify under what circumstances the bot will be replacing existing articles, as opposed to adding new ones? And can you also give estimates of the number of articles to be created (or modified) on a per-region or per-province basis? Thanks. Alai 17:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know yet if I will replace articles automatically. For some regions in Italy, a lot of articles have been created containing nothing more than one sentence: "<> is a commune in <>, Italy." (e.g. Castelcivita). If there aren't too many variations, I can detect that and just overwrite those articles.
 * If the article is any longer than that, I won't do that. Instead, I'll just add it to a list, and decide later, interactively. I may decide to do that for all existing articles if I cannot detect the replaceable substubs with any accuracy.
 * There are over 8,000 municipalities in Italy; I'd guess no more than 2,000 have articles, half of which are completely replaceable substubs. So in the order of 7,000 articles in total. I don't have the exact numbers per region; the number of missing articles per province can be seen from templates like Province of Salerno. (That's actually a bad example, because all of those articles have already been created; but they are almost all substubs.) Eugène van der Pijll 19:05, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I've finished writing the bot now, and I've done a small test run (15 articles) on the first links of Province of Turin. I think these articles are as good as I can make them, so I would like to have approval for this bot now. To answer one of the questions above: currently I'm not replacing any existing articles at all. Eugène van der Pijll 11:57, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I have received a comment on User talk:Eubot/Moretta about moving a lot of data from the article to a (single-use) template. Would like feedback on that idea. Eugène van der Pijll 21:27, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This bot seems to be running more then 15 articles, does this have approval of any kind? —— Eagle (ask me for help) 17:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * . Eugène van der Pijll 17:19, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If I am not mistaken that link shows your request for to run the bot; has it been actually been approved? - If not I strong suggest it ceases activity immediately, as according to this is has done over 1700 edits. - GI e n 17:37, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Automatic approval if there are no comments. (Old rules). Eugène van der Pijll 17:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, old rules don't apply but you are cleared for a trial and limited. Things look good though, run it nice and slow, its not something we want botflagged -- Tawker 17:53, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Old rules do apply, as my bot is that old. But thanks nevertheless, I will finish the province I'm working on now, and wait to see if there's feedback. By the way, I do want to see my bot botflagged; after all, this is why bot flagging was invented (See: Rambot) Eugène van der Pijll 18:01, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * As I have to go slowly, by the way, I'm also doing South Tyrol at the moment. This province requires a lot of manual editting, so I'm doing that bot work very slowly. Eugène van der Pijll 15:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Bot flag is set -- Tawker 04:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)