Operator: Arielbackenroth ( talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic and supervised
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: available here
Function overview: Will add external links from authors and their works to the Open Library.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): not sure yet. likely an inital run to correlate wikipedia articles to their corresponding openlibrary pages, and then occasional runs to update new articles.
Estimated number of pages affected: in the first run, probably on the order of tens of thousands of articles for authors whose works are available via the Open Library. Expanding the scope of the program to link between works on wikipedia and OL will be done later.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function details: This bot will insert interwiki links from wikipedia to Open Library using the templates Template:OL_author and Template:OL_work. The links between wikipedia articles to Open Library articles will be restricted to:
Needs wider discussion. Bot-adding of external links is often quite controversial, as some editors see it as spam. I notice that Open Library is affiliated with the Internet Archive, so you probably have a chance. Take the discussion to WP:Village pump (proposals), and post invitations to the discussion at WP:External links/Noticeboard, WT:WikiProject Books, WT:WikiProject Spam, maybe WT:External links, and anyplace else that seems appropriate. See WP:Publicising discussions for more info. Unless that discussion shows a strong community support for these links, this bot cannot be approved. I am also a bit concerned that you have just started editing Wednesday, and all your edits have been focused on adding these links to Wikipedia; prospective bot operators normally have much more experience with Wikipedia and its policies and guidelines as normal editors. Anomie ⚔ 04:41, 3 July 2010 (UTC) reply
([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OpenlibraryBot|discuss this trial]])
") and, if at all possible, to choose the most popular books/authors and a variety of different genres for the trial edits.
Anomie
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17:05, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
reply{{OL author|...}}
(i.e. leaving out the underscore). It might be best to just use the API's prop=extlinks
to check for the link directly (of course, that depends on there not being a prohibitive number of equivalent URLs to check for). I do like how it ensures that an "External links" section exists before trying to do anything.This looks like a great Idea, I was actually about to suggest something at one of the Village pumps but you all beat me to it, the examples I looked at looked pretty good. Sadads ( talk) 17:35, 22 September 2010 (UTC) reply
Approved. I was waiting to see if anything more happened with the Franklin W Dixon question, but it seems that is resolved. I suggest performing the edits (at least to start) at a relatively low rate of speed, and of course if anyone raises major concerns please stop the bot until the concerns are resolved. Anomie ⚔ 23:19, 17 November 2010 (UTC) reply
Operator: Arielbackenroth ( talk · contribs)
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic and supervised
Programming language(s): Python
Source code available: available here
Function overview: Will add external links from authors and their works to the Open Library.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): not sure yet. likely an inital run to correlate wikipedia articles to their corresponding openlibrary pages, and then occasional runs to update new articles.
Estimated number of pages affected: in the first run, probably on the order of tens of thousands of articles for authors whose works are available via the Open Library. Expanding the scope of the program to link between works on wikipedia and OL will be done later.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function details: This bot will insert interwiki links from wikipedia to Open Library using the templates Template:OL_author and Template:OL_work. The links between wikipedia articles to Open Library articles will be restricted to:
Needs wider discussion. Bot-adding of external links is often quite controversial, as some editors see it as spam. I notice that Open Library is affiliated with the Internet Archive, so you probably have a chance. Take the discussion to WP:Village pump (proposals), and post invitations to the discussion at WP:External links/Noticeboard, WT:WikiProject Books, WT:WikiProject Spam, maybe WT:External links, and anyplace else that seems appropriate. See WP:Publicising discussions for more info. Unless that discussion shows a strong community support for these links, this bot cannot be approved. I am also a bit concerned that you have just started editing Wednesday, and all your edits have been focused on adding these links to Wikipedia; prospective bot operators normally have much more experience with Wikipedia and its policies and guidelines as normal editors. Anomie ⚔ 04:41, 3 July 2010 (UTC) reply
([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/OpenlibraryBot|discuss this trial]])
") and, if at all possible, to choose the most popular books/authors and a variety of different genres for the trial edits.
Anomie
⚔
17:05, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
reply{{OL author|...}}
(i.e. leaving out the underscore). It might be best to just use the API's prop=extlinks
to check for the link directly (of course, that depends on there not being a prohibitive number of equivalent URLs to check for). I do like how it ensures that an "External links" section exists before trying to do anything.This looks like a great Idea, I was actually about to suggest something at one of the Village pumps but you all beat me to it, the examples I looked at looked pretty good. Sadads ( talk) 17:35, 22 September 2010 (UTC) reply
Approved. I was waiting to see if anything more happened with the Franklin W Dixon question, but it seems that is resolved. I suggest performing the edits (at least to start) at a relatively low rate of speed, and of course if anyone raises major concerns please stop the bot until the concerns are resolved. Anomie ⚔ 23:19, 17 November 2010 (UTC) reply