Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DavykamanziBot

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DavykamanziBot

Operator: Davykamanzi (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 14:18, Sunday May 6, 2012 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Standard pywikipedia

Function overview: Updating the league tables and match results for the 2012 Kenyan Premier League, the 2012 FKF Division One, the 2012 Kenyan Women's Premier League and their future seasons.

Edit period(s): Every 4 days

Estimated number of pages affected: 4 pages per year

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): No

Function details: I intend for the bot to update the details of the league table and the match results of the 2012 Kenyan Premier League (source here), the 2012 FKF Division One (Zone A source here, Zone B source here), the 2012 Kenyan Women's Premier League (source here) and their future seasons to reduce tediousness and free up time to perform other tasks on Wikipedia. I, and other users who may edit these articles, will not always be available to update the details and this would make the articles outdated and therefore wouldn't be of much help to readers.

Discussion

Comment. - 4 pages... That could be done manually. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 15:42, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

They are indeed four pages but updating them from the source is very tedious. For example, the Kenyan Women's Premier League section on the website is updated on an irregular basis so it's difficult to update the article. Davykamanzi (talk) 23:20, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pywikipedia is written in Python, not JavaScript. The two are completely different. Are you sure you know what you are doing? →Σ τ c. 20:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. Silly mistake. Davykamanzi (talk) 23:20, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Four pages every four days is ok for a task, but I do share E's concern about coding skill. MBisanz ^talk 21:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
How do you plan to use "Standard pywikipedia" alone to do this? I'd think that custom code would be needed as well. Hazard-SJ ✈ 03:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the concerns about coding skill above, however as this is a very low risk task Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. If possible, could you please post the source code onwiki? --Chris 13:06, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please create a user page for the bot before starting the trial. --Chris 13:07, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the user account exists (as yet? or just locally?). Hazard-SJ ✈ 00:48, 8 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to run a bot, you have to either run a well-tested and more importantly maintained code/framework or write it yourself. That is, you should be able to read and modify the code. I see you requested this task on Wikipedia:Bot requests#DavykamanziBot and you want someone else to write the code for you. You also note that this might take "extremely long" (by which time this BRFA will be long expired), which among other issues makes me think you do not quite understand how this works. I am inclined to close this request until someone else makes a bot for it, or you code one yourself once you are ready. — HELLKNOWZ ▎TALK 16:27, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Aaah sorry I thought this was just at BOTREQ. I was off IRC while this was requested so missed it in the log and wasn't aware it was created. I still stand by what I said at BOTREQ. Rcsprinter (talkin' to me?) 16:38, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn by operator. — The Earwig ^(talk) 18:39, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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