Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VeblenBot 5

{{Newbot|VeblenBot 5}}

Operator: — Carl (CBM · talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: Creates pages that apply a template to the contents of a category, like User:VeblenBot/C/Requests for peer review

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

Edit rate requested: once per hour, one edit per category being tracked

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

Function Details:

This uses a toolserver query [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/Category] to get the contents of a category along with the timestamp each page was added to the category. A file is created with one line per page, with each page being fed into a template. This file is uploaded into the bot's user space, but it can be transcluded elsewhere of course. The idea is to use this to automate Wikipedia:Peer review and possibly other pages subject to consensus about automating them.

Update 2008-3-1: the bot no longer uses the toolserver, since the API now returns the timestamps when articles were added to a category.

• I'd like to see an example of your output, {{BotTrial|edits=25|days=10|userspace=yes}} — xaosflux ^Talk 05:39, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
• The output is at User:VeblenBot/C/Requests for peer review. This is planned to be transcluded into the final page; the mockup of the final page is at User:Geometry guy/Peer review. The actual changes to the peer review page are being discussed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Content_review/workshop#Update here], but are independent of this bot task, which could be used for tracking contents of arbitrary (small) categories. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:24, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

{{BotApproved|D}} looks good. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs(st47) 23:06, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

VeblenBot 5