Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Mro-bot

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Not done--Ymblanter (talk) 21:12, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

mro-bot edit

mro-bot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Mro (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: Update ratings of chess players

Code: Based on pywikibot

Function details: Every time the Chess Federation (FIDE) publishes a new rating list (every month, currently), update the corresponding properties of active chessplayers (property P1087, Elo rating). This used to be done by DrTrigonBot (talk • contribs • logs) before (see here) but the updates have stopped more than a year ago, I don't know why. Later, possibly extend the updates to related properties, such as world ranking, women ranking and national ranking. This information is generally present in the chess player infobox, but it is not using wikidata since the data is outdated (I guess). I am an active contributor of the French wikipedia (fr:Utilisateur:Mro) with 50k contribs and I have used pywiki occasionnaly since 2008 (always supervised edits). --Mro (talk) 10:26, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds good to me - it would be good to see some sample edits from the bot for this first though - run it on a dozen or so players just to confirm it's operating properly. Also I'm wondering if we should look into the issue of bots operating for a while and then ceasing - if the code is available and working somebody else could take it on (with a new bot account)? ArthurPSmith (talk) 14:30, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please make some test edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:37, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Wesalius, as he also wanted to do this (but probably won't till Pasleim would find the source code). @Mro: but we should store also all historical ratings, don't we? --Edgars2007 (talk) 13:21, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I was going to run the same bot. My plan was to first get up and running bot that would update elo ratings of go players and then move onto chess players. Right now I am at the end of the go phase, I have the script ready (result of the first round of elo updating), but I am waiting for the result of the kind help of Neo-Jay, who is matching remaining go player items with English transcription of their names, since most of them already have an item, just not with English label. --Wesalius (talk) 14:16, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Mro: any update? --Edgars2007 (talk) 07:09, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ymblanter: this probbaly can be closed, as this is being done by EloBot. --Edgars2007 (talk) 16:13, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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