Wikispecies:Bots/Requests for approval/EdoBot

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EdoBot (talk • contribs • block log • all projects)[edit]

  1. Bot operator: EdoDodo (talk • contribs • block log • all projects)
  2. Programming language(s): Pywikipedia (interwiki.py)
  3. Automatic or manually assisted: Automatic
  4. Function summary: Creating and maintaining interwiki links.
  5. Edit period(s): Lots of runs.
  6. Edit rate requested: Depends on number of interwikis it finds. Probably something in the dozens per day.
  7. Already has bot flag: Not here.
  8. Function detail: Just regular interwiki links. Bot is approved on Simple English Wikipedia. Requested on French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. Also requested on English Wikiquote and Wikiversity. I realize that there's already an awful lot of interwiki bots out there, but redundancy is never a bad idea, and one more can't hurt ;). I am an experienced bot operator, I am part of the Bot Approvals Group on enwp and operate three bots (DodoBot, MessageDeliveryBot, WelcomerBot) there, as well as DodoBot on Commons. - EdoDodo talk 09:55, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial (50 edits). Go for it. We need bots like that which runs frequently. OhanaUnitedTalk page 00:45, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn by operator. I ran the bot through quite a few pages here, and it seems that virtually none require interwikis. The global bots are probably taking care of them already, for the few pages where it is applicable. - EdoDodo talk 17:37, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not too sure on that. The only interwiki bot we have here is MelancholieBot but it was last ran in August 2009. And what do you mean by global bots? As far as I know, we don't have any running here. OhanaUnitedTalk page 00:28, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I've looked into it more, and it seems this is an issue with interwiki.py (the script I use) not picking up links to different family websites (ie. Wikispecies -> Wikipedia). Since there are no other Wikispecies websites, this effectively means the bot finds no interwikis. I'll talk about it to the pywikipedia programmers on IRC and keep you updated. - EdoDodo talk 05:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
In my page curation, I try to make lnks wherever possible to Commons Categories for images and sometimes to Wikipedia for species links. Are these picked up by your bot, and if so what does it then do with them? Accassidy (talk) 22:18, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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