Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/genewikibot


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genewikibot
Operator:

Time filed: 17:01, Monday August 8, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Manual

Programming language(s): Java

Source code available at 

Function overview: this account will be used to monitor for changes to gene-related pages - see. There are no plans for this bot to make any edits at this time.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Portal:Gene_Wiki

Edit period(s): no edits, only frequent API queries.

Estimated number of pages affected: 0

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): NA

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details: This bot generates a watchlist that includes all of the articles about human genes. It uses the API to query for recent changes to articles in this watchlist. When changes are identified, it summarizes the changes and posts them to a twitter feed (|genewikipulse.

Discussion
You are not required to have a bot account to read-only in small quantities. Do you require a bot flag for highapilimits? — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 15:05, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note that, depending on how real-time this is intended to be, the recent changes feed at #en.wikipedia might be a better choice than polling watchlist. Anomie⚔ 15:43, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Any answer to the above questions? Anomie⚔ 02:43, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * This bot is not in operation now. I created a different, non-bot account to handle the watchlist monitoring and its working well (see resultant twitter feed at http://twitter.com/#!/GeneWikiPulse).  I would like to keep this account for future use, but if that is against policy I can delete the account for now.  Let know if I should delete it. Thanks. Benjamin Good (talk) 15:35, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There's no problem with keeping the account, and it's not really possible to delete an account anyway. We'll just mark this as "Withdrawn", and if you ever want to request approval for a new task just create Bots/Requests for approval/genewikibot 2. Anomie⚔ 16:30, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
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