Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Polbot 6

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Operator: Quadell

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, supervised

Programming Language(s): Perl with Perlwikipedia

Function Summary: Create new articles on species, using IUCN Redlist for data.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): In small batches.

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per minute

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

Function Details: I will manually find species names that do not have articles, and I will list them here. Polbot will read this list and look up the names at the IUCN Redlist. If the species name isn't found, Polbot skips it and goes to the next one. But if it's found, she reads the information, processes it, and spits it out as a new article. Examples: Balantiopteryx infusca, Kinosternon angustipons, and Eophona migratoria. (Polbot also made the redirects Ecuadorian Sac-Winged Bat, Narrow-Bridged Mud Turtle, and Yellow-Billed Grosbeak.) If there are pictures on Wikimedia Commons for the species, Polbot links to this too.

Discussion

• The code is written and ready to go. If you see any possible improvements, please let me know. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 19:37, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Could you provide an example of a page it will generate? Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 22:46, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

There are three example pages is the "description" above. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 22:52, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Can you make another 50 or so pages? --ST47Talk 13:46, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I have now done so. And I'm learning from her new mistakes, and improving the code. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 00:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

 Approved. --ST47Talk 14:58, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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