Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Smallbot 2

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Withdrawn by operator.

Smallbot 2[edit]

Operator: Smallman12q (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 03:44, Sunday December 26, 2010 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted:Automatic

Programming language(s): C# w/ dotnetwikibot dll

Source code available: Will be posted upon completion

Function overview: To generate a list of featured articles by category and by significant contributor (ie. top 3 editors with the most edit counts)

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Bot to help generate List of featured articles by category and significant contributor

Edit period(s): Daily

Estimated number of pages affected: No more than a dozen (still have to decide if it will be on Wikipedia or on the toolserver)

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): No

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes

Function details: The bot will create a list of FAs by category and also list the FAs top contributors. Bot will function as follows:

Load subs of Category:FA-Class_articles
Check subs (may work off https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/bin/bin/list2.fcgi)
for each articles in sub get revision stats
check revision stats and record
when done with sub, goto next
post

Discussion[edit]

I'm not sure what the best format would be. Should it be like Wikipedia:Database reports or something on the toolserver like cleanuplisting (this is probably the easier/more feasible option].Smallman12q (talk) 03:44, 26 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you're putting the results on the TS, you won't need a bot. Mr.Z-man 05:08, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. (user notified) Any news? Mr.Z-man 18:00, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator.-This is doable, but I'm too preoccupied at this time to write it. Feel free to take up the task.Smallman12q (talk) 23:34, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I originally requested this. If interest in coding this is renewed, please let me know. : ) -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:14, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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