Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/JMuniBot



JMuniBot
Operator: Amake (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): PHP

Function Summary:


 * Clean up articles about Japanese municipalities, such as Omi, Nagano by
 * Applying the template to the article title
 * Adding geodata in the form of, with data pulled from Google Maps

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):


 * Multiple-time run (until all municipality articles are cleaned up; approximately 70% already done by hand)

Edit rate requested: 3 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No?

Function Details:
 * Does regex search & replace on first line of article to apply nihongo template
 * Uses a variation on this script to fetch and format coordinates from Google Maps
 * Written in straight PHP with no libraries

Discussion
Care to do a couple sample edits? -- Tawker (talk) 18:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok, here you go: Kosuge, Yamanashi, Hayakawa, Yamanashi, Kajikazawa, Yamanashi  -Amake (talk) 23:11, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * It also plays well with infobox templates, both current and deprecated: Tabayama, Yamanashi.  -Amake (talk) 06:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks fine to me - do you want a bot flag for it - your edit ratio is borderline needing a flag but the task is also pretty routine and appears to be non-controversial. -- Tawker (talk) 00:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, flag me. Thanks.  -Amake (talk) 07:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks fine so just a few should be fine. Is it within the rules of google maps to use them for this purpose? -- maelgwn - talk 00:29, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find anything expressly forbidding it in the Maps API Terms of Use, but I sent in a query just to make sure. -Amake (talk) 23:37, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

feel free to re-open this if you want to. -- maelgwn - talk 03:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)


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 * The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Symbol keep vote.svg Approved.

JMuniBot
Operator: Amake (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): PHP

Function Summary:


 * Clean up articles about Japanese municipalities, such as Omi, Nagano by
 * Applying the template to the article title
 * Adding geodata in the form of, with data pulled from Google Maps

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):


 * Multiple-time run (until all municipality articles are cleaned up; approximately 70% already done by hand)

Edit rate requested: 3 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No?

Function Details:
 * Does regex search & replace on first line of article to apply nihongo template
 * Uses a variation on this script to fetch and format coordinates from Google Maps
 * Written in straight PHP with no libraries

Discussion
BAGAssistanceNeededI was waiting for a reply from Google about whether this bot would violate the Google Maps ToS, but I never received a response (and I was on vacation for a bit during the holidays). As best I can tell from here, this bot would not violate their ToS. Do I need to be re-authorized for my trial run (per above), or can I go to it? -Amake (talk) 05:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No go for it -- maelgwn - talk 07:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, that's 20. -Amake (talk) 14:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

looks good -- maelgwn - talk 23:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


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