Operator: Magog the Ogre ( talk)
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): PHP, Pillar framework.
Function Overview: Update MLB season pages
Edit period(s): Bot will check for final scores once per hour between 3PM-5AM, so theoretically 15 times per day. In actuality, probably about 6-7 wiki runs per day. There may also be periods when my computer is not online.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: Wikipedia has a plethora of {Insert Year} {Insert Team Name} season pages (e.g., 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season), for many sports. The updating of these manually is tedious and error prone. I want to create a bot to update the statistics on these pages and corresponding templates (e.g., {{ 2009 NL Central standings}}, {{ 2009 NL Record vs. opponents}}). Per US judicial decision, this is simple information, and is not copyrighted.
I posted at WT:BASEBALL and did not get any disapproval. In order to avoid problems, the bot will have an editable subpage allowing color preferences ( User:OgreBot/MLB.config), and an option to turn off the bot for a specific page. The bot will also honor the {{ nobots}} template.
The information will be retrieved from http://mlb.com or http://sports.yahoo.com.
The bot will post errors on a subpage: User:OgreBot/MLB.errors. These may occur, for example, if the template coding on the the season pages is tampered (see below) or if there is an error in reading the configuration page. If there is an error, it must be manually fixed before the bot will be able to re-edit the page; it will not automatically fix, due to the potential for edit conflicts and errors.
The season pages will have code as such:
<!-- DO NOT EDIT THIS LINE - OgreBot beginning configuration line -> {season information} <!-- DO NOT EDIT THIS LINE - OgreBot ending configuration line ->
Approved for trial (3 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. –
Quadell (
talk) 13:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
reply
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What is the current status of this request?
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C 17:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
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Any news? –
Quadell (
talk) 13:33, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
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A number of concerns have arisen from the Baseball WikiProject after the first run of this bot. Though the function of the bot was nominally approved by the Project, the format that the bot uses for the game logs was not discussed or approved. It is making several mistakes that are contrary to MOS:
I think that the correct format needs to be determined through consensus and discussion at the project talk page before this bot is approved. KV5 ( Talk • Phils) 16:00, 5 June 2009 (UTC) reply
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OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D}}
What do you think of this feedback? Have you been working on the bugs? –
Quadell (
talk) 00:52, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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Any updates? –
Quadell (
talk) 18:10, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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At this point, you can close this bot request; there was simply too much opposite from WT:BASEBALL which I didn't anticipate, and the amount of benefit offered is not reasonable given the amount of work that would be required in my week. I may write another bot at some other time though, thank you. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 06:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC) reply
Operator: Magog the Ogre ( talk)
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): PHP, Pillar framework.
Function Overview: Update MLB season pages
Edit period(s): Bot will check for final scores once per hour between 3PM-5AM, so theoretically 15 times per day. In actuality, probably about 6-7 wiki runs per day. There may also be periods when my computer is not online.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: Wikipedia has a plethora of {Insert Year} {Insert Team Name} season pages (e.g., 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates season), for many sports. The updating of these manually is tedious and error prone. I want to create a bot to update the statistics on these pages and corresponding templates (e.g., {{ 2009 NL Central standings}}, {{ 2009 NL Record vs. opponents}}). Per US judicial decision, this is simple information, and is not copyrighted.
I posted at WT:BASEBALL and did not get any disapproval. In order to avoid problems, the bot will have an editable subpage allowing color preferences ( User:OgreBot/MLB.config), and an option to turn off the bot for a specific page. The bot will also honor the {{ nobots}} template.
The information will be retrieved from http://mlb.com or http://sports.yahoo.com.
The bot will post errors on a subpage: User:OgreBot/MLB.errors. These may occur, for example, if the template coding on the the season pages is tampered (see below) or if there is an error in reading the configuration page. If there is an error, it must be manually fixed before the bot will be able to re-edit the page; it will not automatically fix, due to the potential for edit conflicts and errors.
The season pages will have code as such:
<!-- DO NOT EDIT THIS LINE - OgreBot beginning configuration line -> {season information} <!-- DO NOT EDIT THIS LINE - OgreBot ending configuration line ->
Approved for trial (3 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. –
Quadell (
talk) 13:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
reply
{{
OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D}}
What is the current status of this request?
Q
T
C 17:46, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
reply
{{
OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D}}
Any news? –
Quadell (
talk) 13:33, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
reply
A number of concerns have arisen from the Baseball WikiProject after the first run of this bot. Though the function of the bot was nominally approved by the Project, the format that the bot uses for the game logs was not discussed or approved. It is making several mistakes that are contrary to MOS:
I think that the correct format needs to be determined through consensus and discussion at the project talk page before this bot is approved. KV5 ( Talk • Phils) 16:00, 5 June 2009 (UTC) reply
{{
OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D}}
What do you think of this feedback? Have you been working on the bugs? –
Quadell (
talk) 00:52, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
reply
{{
OperatorAssistanceNeeded}}
Any updates? –
Quadell (
talk) 18:10, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
reply
At this point, you can close this bot request; there was simply too much opposite from WT:BASEBALL which I didn't anticipate, and the amount of benefit offered is not reasonable given the amount of work that would be required in my week. I may write another bot at some other time though, thank you. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 06:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC) reply