Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JL-Bot 7


 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved

JL-Bot 7
Operator:

Time filed: 17:09, Saturday July 9, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Automatic (operator initiated & supervised)

Programming language(s): Perl (uses MediaWiki::Bot)

Source code available: Upon request

Function overview: Update WP:JCW journal statistics

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot requests/Archive 42, User:JL-Bot/Journal Testing, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals

Edit period(s): Monthly

Estimated number of pages affected: 350

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Not applicable

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function details:

Provide journal citation statistics for WP:JOURNALS. This replaces WikiStatsBOT (approval) which has been inactive for quite awhile. The bot will parse a Wikipedia dump file, generate the requested statistics, and then upload those stats to the WP:JCW subpages.

Discussion
— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 18:41, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Trial complete. -- JLaTondre (talk) 23:41, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * AFAIK, the worked just fine and better than the old bot. Some minor tweaks could be made here and there to handle some corner cases, but nothing that should prevent approval. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:20, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 16:48, 10 July 2011 (UTC)


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