Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Polbot 6

{{Newbot|Polbot|6}}

Operator: Quadell

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, supervised

Programming Language(s): Perl with Perlwikipedia

Function Summary: Create new articles on species, using [http://www.iucnredlist.org/ 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 [http://www.iucnredlist.org/ 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.

• 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)

::::{{BotTrial}} 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)

:{{BotApproved}} --ST47Talk 14:58, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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