Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/TT Bot

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TT Bot

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Operator: The Transhumanist (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, though I'll be watching it closely

Programming Language(s): I don't know how to program, and need to find someone who does, probably in python.

Function Summary: Fill in the blank entries for population and area, including world ranking, on the lists of basic country topics.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Until complete. Shouldn't take long - there's one of these lists for each country of the world (less than 300 pages total).

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

Function Details: Each List of basic x topics (at Lists of basic topics#Geography and places and Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of basic topics#Basic topics lists for countries), where "x" is a country name, has an entry for population and another for area. For most of these lists, those entries are blank. The data exists in the infobox of the corresponding country articles, and needs to be copied from there to the data entries on these pages (and modified slightly to match the standard format of these pages). Doing this by hand for all the pages in the set would be time consuming and tedious. Examples of lists for which this data has been filled in already are List of basic Argentina topics and List of basic Thailand topics.

Discussion

Denied. See Wikipedia:Bot requests. BJ^Talk 23:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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