User:Beastie Bot

;Purpose: Create lists of species by IUCN category ("conservation status"), by taxon (e.g. mammals, mollusk), and/or by country.

;IdeaLab: Beastie Bot on IdeaLab —Please join or give your support

;Target articles:

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;Bot category: Automatic importer

;Language: Beastie Bot is written in C#

;Bot flag: Yes, now running with a bot flag.

;Background:

;Runtime: The bot will run as needed. It runs unaided.

;Status: {{Wikipedia:Bots/inactive}} (will manually run when red list is updated, or as improvements made)

;Logs

: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Beastie+Bot Beastie Bot contributions] (includes Stage One run)

;Examples: List of critically endangered mammals, List of critically endangered fishes

;Stats:

• Redirects to same title — binomial names which are listed as separate species in the IUCN Red List but redirect to the same Wikipedia article. (Many need fixing on Wikipedia)
• IUCN common name issues
• Dupes — common names which are used by more than one species

• /exceptions — rules & exceptions for naming and taxonomic hierarchy (found in Beastie Bot source code)
• /caps — special-case capitalization rules

: Main page: Beastie Bot on IdeaLab

• Finds common name from species or taxa name.
• Finds correct capitalization
• Creates a pie chart
• Writes English sentences.
• Splitting and clumping of sections to reasonable sizes

{{to do}}

• [https://github.com/pengowray/beastiebot github.com/pengowray/beastiebot]

• IdeaLab: [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Open_source_and_improve_Beastie_Bot,_the_tool_for_threatened_species_list_creation Open source and improve Beastie Bot, the tool for threatened species list creation]
• User:Beastie Bot/Stage One — old version of bot which updated the conservation status in taxoboxes

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