Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RjwilmsiBot 3


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RjwilmsiBot 3
Operator:

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB Custom module, C#

Source code available: AWB + Custom module

Function overview: CiteCompletion: a script that completes fields within citations to common English-language news sites on the English Wikipedia. It works by taking the news article URL from the Wikipedia article page, looking up the news page and extracting the missing details of the news article based on per-site rules. User:Rjwilmsi/CiteCompletion.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): On release of database dump. Edit rate unlikely to be high due to need to access 1 to 50 news site URLs per edit.

Estimated number of pages affected: Thousands. Exact figure can be provided from database dump if needed.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details: Detailed at User:Rjwilmsi/CiteCompletion

Discussion
&mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  21:01, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Rjwilmsi 15:58, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems kosher to me.  Me muy vandálo How can I help? 20:40, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 *  Snowolf How can I help? 20:59, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
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