Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/FDA to Wikipedia Bot

FDA to Wikipedia Bot
Operator:

Time filed: 16:00, Saturday, August 15, 2015 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia

'''Function overview: This bot will serve to help insert up-to-date information on medications from the FDA website. A majority of people in the world get their information on medications from Wikipedia. However, the FDA's information on each medication is constantly changing and needs a bot to insert the new information into the corresponding medication Wikipedia page'''

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): daily

Estimated number of pages affected: 10 pages per day

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

'''Function details: The FDA is constantly updating information on medications. With the majority of people, including physicians, getting their information from Wikipedia and not the FDA website, it is necessary that the corresponding Wikipedia medication pages contain the updated information. This Wikipedia bot will scrape the new updates from the FDA website and add the updated information in a table that will be added to the corresponding Wikipedia medication page. The table will be inserted as "Medication XXX update [date]" and contain any new information. The actual text about the medication on the wikipedia page will remain the same. The bot will just insert the table into the corresponding page'''

Discussion

 * If you ever come back: you did not submit this correctly (you need to transclude it on WP:BRFA so others can see it—follow the instructions there), which is why no one commented. You will need to clarify exactly how the bot works, since it is a fairly complex task. —  Earwig   talk 03:04, 4 December 2015 (UTC)