Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/polbot


 * 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.

polbot
Operator: Quadell

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic and supervised.

Programming Language(s): perl, perlwikipedia

Function Summary: For missing U.S. representatives listed here, read and parse info from the Congressional bioguide, format and wikify the data, and then upload as a new article.

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

Edit rate requested: 2 4 edits per minute

Function Details: Source code is at User:Polbot/source. The sub GetBioInfo takes a URL as a parameter and returns the new wikified article as a string. An interface with Wikipedia still needs to be written.

Discussion
This would be my first bot. I still need to interface it with perlwikipedia to actually create the articles, but I wanted to get approval first. An example of an article created with this script (but manually submitted to Wikipedia) is Asa Hodges. – Quadell (talk) (random) 18:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * for 50 edits. --ST47 Talk 20:27, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow! That was fast! I still have to get perlwikipedia to run on my Windows box (or get access to a *nix account to play on), so I'm not sure how ling it'll be before I get that trial going. I'll note here once it's happened. – Quadell (talk) (random) 21:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Shadow has fixed the perlwikipedia errors with windows :) 24.0.77.225 21:55, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I got perlwikipedia to work, so it shouldn't be long now. . . – Quadell (talk) (random) 15:19, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * And the test run is now complete. :D – Quadell (talk) (random) 20:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I noticed that you have a blank line at, can you remove it so there isn't as much space at the top of the article when viewed? --ST47 Talk 17:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * --ST47 Talk 17:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


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