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I would like to run a simple replace.py bot to fix various problems with ==External links== and ==See also== sections. For example some people seem to call "External links" "Weblinks" (I think borrowed from the German wiki), and other mis-capitalisations and minor problems. Martin 19:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Plus all capitalisation variations, and equivalent changes for different types of headings (e.g. ===Weblinks===).
There are a quite a lot and they get introduced fairly quickly as well, I have done about 500 by hand already but its not worth it when a bot could do it! thanks Martin 09:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
As part of the ungoing effort to remove illegally used images from Wikipedia, and to clarify our license tags, I have created, and am continuing to develop, a collection of python scripts to facilitate the bulk processes of media content. My scripts interact directly with a local copy of the Wikipedia backend database, which facilitate operations which would be unreasonable with a traditional bot. For example, a normal bot would need to load all 21,000 fair use images to determine which are linked in the main namespace, while my bot has the answer with a single query. Although I'm currenty running these scripts on my account in a supervised and very slow manner, I believe it would be a good idea to move these edits into their own accout and potentially operate with the bot flag. Operation of Roomba will be automatic, semi-manual, or manual depending on the exact nature of the changes but unless I later request retasking here, all of roomba's operation will be confined to tasks related to the bulk handling of media pages potentially including adding notices to user talk pages however I would want to discuss that more with others because I feel it is much better to have notices placed by someone who can answer questions, which is also why I have little desire to produce a bot which edits articles. -- Gmaxwell 23:06, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
I'd like permission to run Commander Keane bot. It uses the pywikipedia framework, specifically solve_disambiguation.py and touch.py, but I may uses other pywikipedia functions when I become more experienced.
Admittedly, I have been running the bot for a couple of weeks. The instructions on the project page gave me the impression that only newly designed bots needed discussion here (the use of "bot-maker" specicfically). -- Commander Keane 16:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm asking for permission to use this bot. It uses pywikipedia, and I'd like to use it to fix highway disambiguation pages, add templates to pages, and maybe more after I learn more about the program. -- Rschen7754 talk 04:12, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
'en': u'Template',
(at line 368 in my version). It's not the best fix (as just works around the problem), but it does the job. --
Mairi 03:21, 7 November 2005 (UTC)I would like to run a bot with account User:HELLO, WORLD! to maintain the lists of asteroids and create new articles for asteroids. - Yaohua2000 03:44, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
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I would like to run a simple replace.py bot to fix various problems with ==External links== and ==See also== sections. For example some people seem to call "External links" "Weblinks" (I think borrowed from the German wiki), and other mis-capitalisations and minor problems. Martin 19:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Plus all capitalisation variations, and equivalent changes for different types of headings (e.g. ===Weblinks===).
There are a quite a lot and they get introduced fairly quickly as well, I have done about 500 by hand already but its not worth it when a bot could do it! thanks Martin 09:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
As part of the ungoing effort to remove illegally used images from Wikipedia, and to clarify our license tags, I have created, and am continuing to develop, a collection of python scripts to facilitate the bulk processes of media content. My scripts interact directly with a local copy of the Wikipedia backend database, which facilitate operations which would be unreasonable with a traditional bot. For example, a normal bot would need to load all 21,000 fair use images to determine which are linked in the main namespace, while my bot has the answer with a single query. Although I'm currenty running these scripts on my account in a supervised and very slow manner, I believe it would be a good idea to move these edits into their own accout and potentially operate with the bot flag. Operation of Roomba will be automatic, semi-manual, or manual depending on the exact nature of the changes but unless I later request retasking here, all of roomba's operation will be confined to tasks related to the bulk handling of media pages potentially including adding notices to user talk pages however I would want to discuss that more with others because I feel it is much better to have notices placed by someone who can answer questions, which is also why I have little desire to produce a bot which edits articles. -- Gmaxwell 23:06, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
I'd like permission to run Commander Keane bot. It uses the pywikipedia framework, specifically solve_disambiguation.py and touch.py, but I may uses other pywikipedia functions when I become more experienced.
Admittedly, I have been running the bot for a couple of weeks. The instructions on the project page gave me the impression that only newly designed bots needed discussion here (the use of "bot-maker" specicfically). -- Commander Keane 16:00, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm asking for permission to use this bot. It uses pywikipedia, and I'd like to use it to fix highway disambiguation pages, add templates to pages, and maybe more after I learn more about the program. -- Rschen7754 talk 04:12, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
'en': u'Template',
(at line 368 in my version). It's not the best fix (as just works around the problem), but it does the job. --
Mairi 03:21, 7 November 2005 (UTC)I would like to run a bot with account User:HELLO, WORLD! to maintain the lists of asteroids and create new articles for asteroids. - Yaohua2000 03:44, 1 November 2005 (UTC)