Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DottyQuoteBot
- The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was
Approved.
Operator: Dottydotdot
Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic-unsupervised
Programming Language(s): Python
Function Overview: Gets Wikiquote's Quote of the Day every day
Edit period(s): Daily
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No
Function Details: This gets the current Quote of the day from Wikiquote, so it can then be used on talk pages etc. I think it would be good if I put it into maybe 3 different templates-one with just the quote-as seen at User:DottyQuoteBot/qotd, one in a box without the accompanying image, & one in a box with the image. I don't know enough about making templates etc. to make these so will have to ask someone else to do that. Feel free to ask any questions about it! Cheers
Discussion
[edit]Is it just going to edit its own userspace? - Jarry1250 (t, c) 17:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- If not, then it should probably set up some similar structure {{POTD}} has. Amalthea 17:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- No, that was just so I could test it & show it worked-yep, definitely something like POTD-as I say, I don't know enough to do that-so hopefully someone will help! dottydotdot (talk) 19:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- Although I doubt we would bother with the archive of them all-that's something for Wikiquote to do-so just the main template(s). dottydotdot (talk) 19:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- No, that was just so I could test it & show it worked-yep, definitely something like POTD-as I say, I don't know enough to do that-so hopefully someone will help! dottydotdot (talk) 19:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Comment: Looks to be quite a useful bot, sort of similar to Wikinews Importer Bot (talk · contribs). Cirt (talk) 08:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Approved for trial (5 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's see how it does. – Quadell (talk) 18:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- OK, it's going to do it at Template:QOTD, Thanks Dottydotdot (talk) 19:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- You might want to put the line "Imported from Wikiquote..." in <noinclude> or something similar, and use
<br />instead of<br>. LegoKontribsTalkM 02:43, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
- You might want to put the line "Imported from Wikiquote..." in <noinclude> or something similar, and use
Trial complete.OK I think that's 5 times-two problems-the month date was being shortened to 3 letters which is fine for May, but not for June & the first 0 for numbers below 10 wasn't being taken off-so it couldn't find the quote on Wikiquote-both fixed-so a lucky time to test it at! Dotty••|☎ 10:04, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Approved. Looks good. – Quadell (talk) 13:20, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
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