Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EmausBot

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Approved.

EmausBot

Operator: Emaus (talk · contribs)

Automatic or Manually assisted: Manually

Programming language(s): C# (using DotNetWiki framework)

Source code available: Possibly later

Function overview: Interwiki search using different methods

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Manually run

Estimated number of pages affected: 100 pages per day or lesser. Depends on task.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

Assert Edit flags used (exists, user/bot, none): None

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes on ru, uk

Function details: In every single task bot compares pages from some category (e.g. Geography of France) with pages from similar category in other language. Bot compares a geographical coordinates (if there), titles, etc, and forms list of similar pages. Operator checks every matching and approves or rejects it. Finally, bot appends approved interwiki links.

Examples of work: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Discussion

As long as a human considers each edit, I have absolutely no problem with this. Are you aware of the restrictions on interwiki linking on enwp? Josh Parris 02:27, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm aware of that restrictions --Emaus (talk) 09:30, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Given it is manually assisted, Approved. Josh Parris 03:46, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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