Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GCIBot

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Denied.

GCIBot

Operator: Manilla64 (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 17:46, Monday December 27, 2010 (UTC)

The bot will be supervised.

Automatic or Manually assisted: Manually Assisted (though no changes should be made)

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: No source code as of yet

Function overview: To produce a list of wikipedia articles in one language that are not present in another

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: Pages should not be edited by this bot

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): y

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details: Based on parameters given to it, this bot must search through Wikipedia articles and return a list of articles that are present in one language but not another. Ex: given the inputs cs and pl, it would find a list of articles that are present in the Czech version of wikipedia but not in the Polish version.

Discussion

This would be better done using a database dump or as a Toolserver tool. Is there any reason you are requesting to do this as a bot? Anomie ⚔ 18:03, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Please read WP:BOTACC and make sure to post messages with you main account. Also note that this is English Wikipedia and we do not deal with other languages. You need to get separate approvals from any other Wikipedias. See mw:Bot policy for a more relevant solution. Finally, given the amount of reads, would a Database dump be more suitable for your needs or do you really need the current list? Unless there is a justified reason and community support the bot should not be getting all 3.5 million page names which is at least 700 longish API requests. And given you are a new user, you may not be given a WP:toolserver account for direct SQL queries. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 18:12, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Denied. Task is better done with a database dump or toolserver query. Operator is unresponsive, and does not seem to have the necessary experience to be a bot operator at this time. Anomie ⚔ 21:59, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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