Meta:Requests for bot status/DrTrigonBot
- The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a closed Meta-Wiki request. Please do not modify it.
Operator: DrTrigon (talk • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block log • CA • email)
Time filed: 15:06, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Automatic or Manual: Automatic unsupervised
en:Programming language(s): Python (pywikipediabot framework with extensions - long time usage in dewiki)
en:Source code available: https://fisheye.toolserver.org/changelog/drtrigon
Function overview: "SubsterBot" as already operating on w:de:Spezial:Beiträge/DrTrigonBot and others - provides on-request functions to sync data from external sources automatically
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):
Edit period(s): daily (as well as continuous)
Estimated number of pages affected: currently about 50 per day on dewiki (depends on the usage of the bot template - request by users)
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Y (pywikipediabot)
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): en:User:DrTrigonBot, de:User:DrTrigonBot, frr:User:DrTrigonBot, ar:User:DrTrigonBot
Function details: This bot provides a simple and programmable interface to automatic data substitution (or synchronization) from external sources to wiki pages (mostly meta templates; containing data like e.g. world rankings or else). It is already running on dewiki (German Wiki), enwiki and others with quite some success - now the idea is to enable it here also in order to give users access to the bot functions. The bot becomes active only if a bot template with settings was placed on a page, thus just enabling the bot changes nothing until somebody wants actually to use the bot.
On dewiki this bot is used e.g. for following pages:
- world rankings
- blog from RSS to watchlist
- Exchange rates
- Bank code (and other info)
...the possible usages of the bot are converging against infinite - depending on the creativity of users. Thanks and greetings --DrTrigon (talk) 15:08, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]Well known bot, No objections. so 