Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WikiStatsBOT 2

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WikiStatsBOT 2

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Operator: ThaddeusB

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic

Programming language(s): Perl

Function overview: Provide some requested stats for WP: WikiProject Journals

Edit period(s): at most once per database dump

Estimated number of pages affected: 50

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

Function details: Per this bot request the academic journals wikiproject would like a bot to compile some stats on the most cited journals on Wikipedia. My bot will read from the latest database dump and find all the instances of {{citation}} and {{cite journal}} that have a "journal=" parameter. When finished, it will sort the information both alphabetically and by hits and output the results to Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Bot compilation/ and subpages there of. The idea is to help the project prioritize creating pages for widely cited journals without pages and often used abbreviations which currently lack redirects.

Discussion

• Looks pretty non-controversial. Suggest speedy, unless someone sees any issues. – Quadell ^(talk) 16:53, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedily Approved. Reads from a dump, writes extremely infrequently and out of article space, experienced botop, no prob. – Quadell ^(talk) 13:05, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

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