Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry/IRC discussions/22 July 2008

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11:32 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; CheMoBot nodebug

11:32 &lt;+CheMoBot&gt; Taking CheMoBot out of debug mode.

11:32 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; !info

11:32 &lt;+CheMoBot&gt; Beetstra: Uptime: 22 hours 37:56 minutes. Last RC 00 seconds ago. Reportlevel = 1 (1).

11:55 -!- walkerma [n=chatzill@admin-151-108.potsdam.edu] has joined #wikichem

11:57 &lt;walkerma&gt; Beetstra: Are you there? I've popped out from a meeting to start logging IRC

11:57 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; I am here still ..

11:57 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; Not sure how long

11:58 &lt;walkerma&gt; Antony is taking his dog to the vet - serious snake bite - but can you give us a very quick rundown on where we are with the bot?

12:01 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; Err ..

12:01 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; what it does:

12:02 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; * keep an eye on which pages transclude a chembox new or a drugbox

12:02 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; When that page changes, it tries to substract from the new and the old revision the infobox, and tries to see which fields have changed

12:03 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; Then it tries to get a copy of the infobox from a wikiproject page, and compares changes with the data stored in that page

12:04 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; when fields change, it reports here

12:04 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; I think that is it

12:04 &lt;walkerma&gt; Is it ready for testing?

12:04 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; That is what is running

12:04 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; I am waiting for my bot request to allow it to edit .. then I can command it to copy all boxes from mainspace into the indexed pages

12:05 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; And then your (pl) work begins .. check all data

12:05 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; in the offline copy

12:05 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; err .. in the wikiproject copy

12:05 &lt;walkerma&gt; When do you think the bot approval will go through? Will it go through?

12:06 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; Yes, should for this not be a problem

12:06 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; Next things may be a problem .. if I start asking for permission to 'repair' mainspace

12:06 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; But first I want it to be able to 'backup' infoboxes, and to create an on-wiki log

12:07 &lt;walkerma&gt; Well, if we can establish the viability with "watch" mode, that will be a start, right?

12:07 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; then we can see and assess how bad the damage is .. and if we should ask for permission to automatically repair

12:07 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; oh .. first semi-automatic repair .. e.g. via a command here 'chemobot repair Benzene'

12:08 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; That may not be easy to programm, though ..

12:08 &lt;+Beetstra&gt; But we will see

12:08 &lt;walkerma&gt; Do you have the first 50 validated compounds ready for testing? Or will you use the first 500?

12:13 &lt;walkerma&gt; (I'm just nipping to the stockroom while you answer)

12:18 &lt;walkerma&gt; OK, I need to go back into my meeting now - thanks!

12:18 &lt;walkerma&gt; For those logging, I guess the meeting is over! If other people show up and want to discuss other things, feel free!

12:19 &lt;walkerma&gt; Thanks Dirk, and we all appreciate the work you're doing! Bye

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