Operator: CBM
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Summary: Update Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Table, and possibly other similar pages
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One update per day
Edit rate requested: under 20 edits per DAY. Updating the table requires running several query.php queries, which run at no more than 1 query per second.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N):
Function Details: Updates table of article ratings. Future functionality may include updating lists of rated articles. The code is based on User:WP 1.0 bot, but with a more specific purpose. I have been successfully running this under my own user name for a week or so, but I would rather run it under an alternate username.
Seems fine - make sure to put a throttle on any edits (in particular), and keep the query.php usage rate limited :). I too am writing a bot for WP1.0 (ish) work, which takes it all a step further than MathBot (by choosing articles), and from my research, the categories don't chagne that often, so perhaps you may choose to run the bot once a week? It's a task fairly easy on the servers, so I wouldn't worry about this too much in any case. Mart inp23 22:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC) reply
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I've read over the comments from the Math WikiProject and the members have embraced this idea. The tables look beautiful as well. So long as you take their advise into account, I don't have any problem. They mentioned that you can't replace the WP 1.0 table or else that bot will be unable to function correctly, so make sure you have accounted for that issue. --
RM 12:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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This looks really nice. I'm sure other large projects could use it. Maybe Oleg (WP1 Bot creator) would be interested in forking the code back into his codebase? -- kingboyk 15:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC) reply
I suspect WP Bio might be interested at some point - we may be in touch. Keep up the good work! --
kingboyk 22:26, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
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Operator: CBM
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Summary: Update Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Table, and possibly other similar pages
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One update per day
Edit rate requested: under 20 edits per DAY. Updating the table requires running several query.php queries, which run at no more than 1 query per second.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N):
Function Details: Updates table of article ratings. Future functionality may include updating lists of rated articles. The code is based on User:WP 1.0 bot, but with a more specific purpose. I have been successfully running this under my own user name for a week or so, but I would rather run it under an alternate username.
Seems fine - make sure to put a throttle on any edits (in particular), and keep the query.php usage rate limited :). I too am writing a bot for WP1.0 (ish) work, which takes it all a step further than MathBot (by choosing articles), and from my research, the categories don't chagne that often, so perhaps you may choose to run the bot once a week? It's a task fairly easy on the servers, so I wouldn't worry about this too much in any case. Mart inp23 22:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC) reply
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. I've read over the comments from the Math WikiProject and the members have embraced this idea. The tables look beautiful as well. So long as you take their advise into account, I don't have any problem. They mentioned that you can't replace the WP 1.0 table or else that bot will be unable to function correctly, so make sure you have accounted for that issue. --
RM 12:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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This looks really nice. I'm sure other large projects could use it. Maybe Oleg (WP1 Bot creator) would be interested in forking the code back into his codebase? -- kingboyk 15:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC) reply
I suspect WP Bio might be interested at some point - we may be in touch. Keep up the good work! --
kingboyk 22:26, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
reply