Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/ZaBOTka 3
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Request expired: Operator inactive for almost 7 weeks now. Hazard-SJ ✈ 19:57, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Operator: User:Zanka
- Task: create items based on ruwiki categories (with descriptions)
Hi again. With the help of Merlissimo recently I finished new version of my bot that could create items. I still work on the predefined dataset that is either list of articles created manually or list from category but now I could not only provide Russian description (and others by the way) to the list but also create items if they are not created yet. The dataset will usually be formed based on ruwiki articles. The bot is able to watch out interwiki conflict and will be (what I'm doing right now while this request is in process) able to save conflicts on special subpage. All descriptions are based on current guideline. I usually work with datasets where labels should be capitalized, so it is not a problem for now too. Based on the current version of Wikidata:Bots I made a request first before actual test edits. --Zanka (talk) 18:58, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Question Is it completely automatic, or will you check every new description?--CENNOXX (talk) 02:29, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I provide description and category name as input for bot (for example, "city in <state>, USA"). If item for article exists then bot just adds description (if empty), if there is no item than bot creates new one. Nothing completely automatic. --Zanka (talk) 15:44, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Support--CENNOXX (talk) 18:09, 1 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Please run a test run so that we know that it works under the new API. 1000 items should be sufficient. Needless to say it would not be a good idea to run the test run for this task and the test run for task 2 at the same time. They also should have different edit summaries. Thanks! Sven Manguard Wha? 01:28, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I hope you read my technique above " I provide description and category name as input for bot (for example, "city in <state>, USA"). If item for article exists then bot just adds description (if empty), if there is no item than bot creates new one. Nothing completely automatic. --Zanka (talk) 15:44, 1 December 2012 (UTC)" That means general idea of bot was to provide descriptions, but than I thought why not to create item if description exists but item not created yet. --Zanka (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll make test edits after two-week vacation. Sorry for delay. --Zanka (talk) 13:30, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]