Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PhiloBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was Speedily Approved.

PhiloBot

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Operator: Tresoldi

Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary: the bot fetches information from philosophers and schools-of-thought to generate graphics of influence between them

Edit period(s) one time run of fetching to generate the graphics, to be repeated when needed (once a month is probably more than enough)

Edit rate requested: 0 edits per day (for the time being)

Already has a bot flag: N

Function Details: This bot will be a evolution on some local scripts I have being developing, mainly for semi-automatically generating graphical relationships between philosophers/schools of thought with some third party software (currently, Graphviz). You can see an old example of my first developments on the bot user page, or in Pre-socratic philosophy. This bot is needed to ensure that each time a modification on a philosopher's box is apported, it will be carried on to any graphical relationships available. However, I don't intend to run the bot very often (once a month is probably more than enough) and will only be run manually. The code will be released under a free license, as well as the graphics generated (which is obvious, as its source will be information extracted from Wikipedia articles). A short period of more intense bandwidth usage is expected in the first days, as I develop and debug properly the fetching routines. When ready, I expect the bot to request about 500 pages on each run, with at most a run each month. I will not edit any page at this time besides the bot's own page, where I will display the graphics so it can be discussed in the Philosophy portal the more appropriate way to use them.

Discussion

Tresoldi, you need to confirm that you are this bot's operator by editing this page. — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 03:49, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that; I confirm that I am the bot operator. tresoldi 14:07, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I don't understand this request. Can you be a bit clearer? —METS501 (talk) 04:06, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

He explains more on the bot's user page than on its BRFA... — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 04:11, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that, too; I updated the description to a more informative one. tresoldi 14:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Looks speediable as not-strictly-a-bot-but-thanks-for-the-courtesy-mention, since it's not doing any editing, and it's not doing enough reading to be a crawler in the, um, bad sense. OTOH, if you only need to do this every month or so, it could be done entirely from a db dump... Alai 07:24, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. Speedily Approved. No bot flag needed. —METS501 (talk) 14:57, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

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