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[edit] Current requests

[edit] SuisuiBot

User:SuisuiBot is a bot controld by User:Suisui, mainly work for pywikipedia warnfile of ja.wikipedia, to maintain interwiki links. It has already flagged on ja.wp and has 50000 edits. It wont be run too much. I request just for not to crimp your RC. thanks.--Suisui 04:57, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Soulbot

Soulbot is a pywikipedia bot. I will use it for monitored fixing of interwiki links across many languages. - Soulkeeper 14:38, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

It will work on articles mainly about organic species, but also on some biographies and other non-ambigous articles. When ambigouity does appear, it is solved manually. Editing many wikipedias at once is effective and saves bandwidth. See contributions (en - da - sv) to get an idea of what the bot is doing, and no:Bruker:Soulbot for the current status on different wikipedias. Please also use my Norwegian talk page if you want to leave me a note. Best regards, Soulkeeper 18:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chobot

Hi.

Chobot is an interwiki bot, running pywikipedia. Can I ask a bot status for Chobot? See Special:Contributions/Chobot what it does. -- ChongDae 14:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I am concerned by many of the comments on meta:User talk:ChongDae. Your bot doesn't not seem to be working correctly. It would be better if you 1) ran without a bot flag, and 2) only make changes which link ko: with en: and simple:, since those are your strongest language skills. -- Netoholic @ 17:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Pywikipedia program does not support fixing only a FEW languages. And it is really INEFFICIENT to fix one language at a time. -- ChongDae 14:19, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
And if my bot does not work correctly, other bots will do not, too. I'm using CVS version of the pywikipedia, which is used by other bot operators. The trouble in my talk page was about Lepidoptera. I intended to connect order Lepidoptera between wikipedias. And I found that some wikipedias use Butterfly pages as "order Lepidoptera" -- In fact, moths are larger part of Lepidoptera than butterflies. I gave up that approach (try yo connect same level of scientific classifications) after that. -- ChongDae 18:35, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hey everyone, my nickname is Datrio and I'm a Wikimedia steward. I wanted to know what does the Simple community think about Chobot, now? Datrio 11:48, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SOTNBot

I'd like to use SOTNBot (contribs), based on pywikipediabot, to occasionally update interwikis, 'touch' pages when necessary and perform text replacements, External Links -> External links, for example. I'm performing further demonstration edits. Any support or objections to me requesting a bot flag? Michael 06:39, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbot for Simple English Wikipedia

I should have done this long time ago... I hereby request the authorization to run en:User:Sandbot (I will register User:Sandbot) to clean up Wikipedia:Sandbox every... 12 hours with the simple English comment of 'Cleaning...' and to restore the template header every 30 minutes. Sounds good? --AllyUnion 06:19, 10 October 2005 (UTC)


I really don't think it's necessary, considering how unused our Sandbox is. Thanks for the offer. -- Netoholic @ 13:43, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Okay. Let me know when you do need it. --AllyUnion 09:54, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] TuvicBot

I would like a bot flag to run my interwiki-bot TuvicBot (using Pywikipedia). This bot will run in manually assisted mode, adding and updating interwiki-links, using the Dutch wiki as a starting point. I'm mostly planning to solve interwikis that autonomous bot skip because they're ambigious. --Tuvic 18:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Erwin85Bot

I request a bot status for Erwin85Bot. I'm an active user and sysop on nl: and I'll work on adding interwiki's on nds-nl:. However to minimize the server load I'd like to add backlinks from other wikipedia's to nds-nl as well. So other bots don't have to load the same pages again. The bot will always run manually assisted. In cases where I don't know what interwiki to use, I will simply give up. --Erwin85 20:08, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Basic English Bot (request)

Meta bot request

I'm on Wikipedia as SBHarris, and just discovered Simple English Wikipedia. Kick me if this has been suggested someplace else, but it occurs to me that what Simple English Wikipedia needs, is a lot of robotic flagging of articles to see which of their component words are part of the Basic English 850, or 1500, or derivatives thereof (a much longer list). The output might give words in three different colors, for example.

It would be most useful if a user had some way of running the `bot repetitively on an article, while editing it. The best place for the bot to run in the background, would obviously be to have it run every time the user did a "show preview." Results would come up very much like the "linked" or "unlinked" colors now used for THOSE purposes.

For this reason, such a "bot" would really ideally be part of the mediawiki software that runs this place. So this would more than a bot, but change in the basic software. But anything (even a bot which runs once a day and checks all articles) would help.

Without a lot of experience, it's quite difficult for the average native English speaker to tell if words below a certain complexity are part of the Basic English 850 or 1500 list. However, with these things automatically flagged by bot, it IS easy, even for inexperienced people to spot target words outside basic English, and then to make a decision if there is some shorter and more basic replacement that works as well, or if the word needs to stand "as is."

Won't one of your considerate 'bot makers (or you software mogels who did the original programming for this Version) consider working on this? It really would change everything here.

Addendum: I can think of more complex stuff, and most of these ideas apparently aren't as creative as I thought, since a friend of mine also came up with most of them, even as I was explaining the problem, before I'd gotten to my solutions. (So something of this sort has got to happen here eventually-- it's only a matter of WHEN, not IF). Here's a related Bot solution: There is need for a Reverse Thesaurus Bot, which is a normal thesaurus but with the Basic English word or phrase as a "redirect". This would not only flag words as not being part of BE 850 or BE 1500, but then also, for lots of words, might be able to give the Basic English word or phrase which is the suggested replacement. There is probaby such a thing already in print form, for writers of Basic English literature. But the process needs badly to be automated here, and probably could be. Here if nowhere else!

Sharris 20:56, 8 October 2006 (UTC) (SBHarris on standard Wikipedia).

I have an idea. Rather than a bot that no-one will use, why don't we just set up a web-based Java system. You type the article name in the box, it fetches it and does it with no installs. It's quite a basic system, but I'm not sure if I can do it. Archer7 - talk 21:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zwobot

Hallo, I'm running Zwobot as an interwiki bot in more than 100 languages. I'm using the Python Wikipedia Bot framework, and I'm one of its developers. I'm also a sysop and active user on de:. The bot will only do interwiki changes on simple:. --Head 09:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Already fulfilled requests

[edit] BetBot

I'm requesting bot status for my interwiki bot (pywikipedia, interwiki.py) on this wiki. I am an admin at sq:wiki (Bet_0), and run the bot from articles there. Mainly new articles and articles whithout iw links. BetBot currently has botflag on sq, de, pl, it, nl, fr, en, es, sr, eo, sv, bs, sl, mk, ru, hr and waiting on some other Wikipedias. Thanks --BetBot 19:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Approved by Blockinblox, 8 December. Bot has done nothing but add interwiki links for past 3 months. Blockinblox - talk 22:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JAnDbot

Please for bot flag for my bot. It's interwiki bot working on cs:, it does non-controversial automatic interwiki addiction, but his main domain is human assisted problematical interwiki (this operation is working on about 100 languages at same time, but maximal 10 pages per day).

This bot do standard interwiki addiction too, but only in the languages with bot flag.

Bot is based on pywikipedia. Already with bot status (24 languages): cs, eo, sl, pl, de, sr, hr, da, en, el, es, it, sk, sh, vec, ro, no, ... (see here Awaiting for bot: some more languages, e.g. fi, pt, ar, ja...

If you have any question, please write it to my discuss page JAnDbot 10:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC) / JAn

[edit] Thijs!bot

Hello, I am Thijs! and I am running my bot Thijs!bot on >25 wikipedia's to add and correct interwiki-links. I use the Dutch wikipedia and Flacus' warnfiles as a starting point. My bot is currently running on: nl, en, de, fr, sv, no, is, nn, sv, fi, da, pl, ru, pt, es, it, gl, ca, nds, nds-nl, li, he, hr, hu, io, id, ia, ie, ja. Simple: should also be in this list to improve the internationalisation, and the addition will not increase the server load. Thijs! 10:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yurik Bot

Hi, I am an active bot participant, as well as one of the deveopers of pywikipediabot framework. Recently we added the ability to significantly reduce server load by fixing interwikies in all different languages at the same time. Each individual site has less need for their own bot operators, as everyone can contribute to everyone else. For this to work, I would like to get a bot status. Thanks!

P.S. Lastly, to avoid confusion, I will request an account rename from Yurik to YurikBot. --Yurik 17:38, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

I've performed the rename to User:YurikBot. Since that was my only objection, I don't see any reason not to request a flag be set. -- Netoholic @ 20:13, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] es:Usuario:Chlewbot

I am asking permission to run an interwiki bot under the account User:Chlewbot. I have already tested under my own account on controlled conditions. I plan to run the bot only on pages originated in Spanish language Wikipedia. I am also asking for bot status on meta. — Chlewey 14:55, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

update: I have performed several tests. Results are available here. I keep the bot updated using CVS. If there is no objections, please notify in meta. Thank you.
Chlewey 13:12, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Request at meta fulfilled. --Ascánder (Talk at es:) 02:59, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] de:Benutzer:FlaBot

I need a botaccount for setting interwikis in all the languageses i support with my IWLC (INTERWIKI-LINK CHECKER). I have bot account in all big wikis. Be happy about the new interwiki-links you get. de:Benutzer:Flacus ( 14:04, 17 January 2006 84.169.230.21 )

Request for this on Meta meta:Requests_for_bot_status#de:Benutzer:FlaBot --Walter 15:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I did. But i need here an anounce and an feedback.
Done at meta! -Romihaitza 17:10, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ugur Basak Bot

Ugur Basak Bot is currenly run on Turkish Wikipedia using multilogin function, also run on English wikipedia with flagged. Not its better to run without flag but if it's needed can ask for flag on meta. Ugur Basak 20:58, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:VecBot

Hello,

I am an Italian Wikpedian it:Utente:dario_vet, here User:Vector, and I ask for permission to use robot User:VecBot.

This robot will only be used to make interwikis(for promoted simple.wikipedia) (using pywikipedia interwiki.py). I already have robot status on it

You can check the edit already made by my bot in Special:Contributions/VecBot --Vector (write to me please) 16:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Tangobot

Tangobot (contributions) is an interwiki-link maintaining and category organizing bot, running the scripts from m:pywikipedia. It is already flagged on en:. As for the category organization features, I will occasionally use category.py from pywikipedia to change articles when categories need to be renamed. Please see the contributions for some examples. Thanks, Tangotango 07:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

 Done. Archer7 - talk 20:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Escarbot

Hello,

I am a French Wikpedian fr:User:Vargenau (where I am sysop), here User:Vargenau, and I ask for permission to use robot User:Escarbot.

This robot will only be used to make interwikis (using pywikipedia interwiki.py). I already have robot status on fr: nl: sr: ht: da: pt: is: it: li: sv: sk: na: be: ja: ro: lb: zh-min-nan: de: bg: bs: la: mk: hr: pl: ru: fa: eo: tr: nn: oc: ku: fi: vi: ca: ka: en: bn: el: ia: az: zh-yue: no: eu: csb: an: id: ksh: af: lad: vec: hy: lt: nds: os: gl: iu: tg: th: lij:

You can check the edit already made by my bot in Special:Contributions/Escarbot

Thank you for you support

Vargenau 20:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)  Done. Blockinblox 21:12, 20 November 2006 (UTC)