Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/botlannon


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botlannon
Operator:

Automatic or Manually assisted: Manually assisted, but no editing

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot

Function overview: Lookup various medical terms and return wikipedia intro paragraph.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): no editing, read only.

Estimated number of pages affected: 0

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Discussion
If the bot will not be editing, then I see no need to give it approval (or even create an account, for that matter, but I suppose pywikipedia requires one). If you need the +bot permission for some reason, such as to make API requests with higher limits, then yes – bot approval is necessary – but otherwise, I think you can just go ahead and run it without approval. So, do you need to make high-limit API requests? &mdash; The Earwig   (talk)  15:40, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

— HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 11:48, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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