Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Smallbot 2


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Smallbot 2
Operator:

Time filed: 03:44, Sunday December 26, 2010 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted:Automatic

Programming language(s): C# w/ dotnetwikibot dll

Source code available: Will be posted upon completion

Function overview: To generate a list of featured articles by category and by significant contributor (ie. top 3 editors with the most edit counts)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot to help generate List of featured articles by category and significant contributor

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: No more than a dozen (still have to decide if it will be on Wikipedia or on the toolserver)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No

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

Function details: The bot will create a list of FAs by category and also list the FAs top contributors. Bot will function as follows:
 * 1) Load subs of Category:FA-Class_articles
 * 2) Check subs (may work off https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/bin/bin/list2.fcgi)
 * 3) for each articles in sub get revision stats
 * 4) check revision stats and record
 * 5) when done with sub, goto next
 * 6) post

Discussion
I'm not sure what the best format would be. Should it be like Database reports or something on the toolserver like cleanuplisting (this is probably the easier/more feasible option].Smallman12q (talk) 03:44, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * If you're putting the results on the TS, you won't need a bot. Mr.Z-man 05:08, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Any news? Mr.Z-man 18:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * -This is doable, but I'm too preoccupied at this time to write it. Feel free to take up the task.Smallman12q (talk) 23:34, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I originally requested this. If interest in coding this is renewed, please let me know. : ) -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:14, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
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