English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot-Schafter

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Bot-Schafter

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Operator: Mandavi

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): python

Function Summary: The bot will add the small () stars for featured articles of national wikipedias at their interwikilink.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): once every one or two month

Edit rate requested: 2 edits per minute

Function Details: The bot will add the stars in order to give users with knowledge of foreign languages the chance to enrich the English articles with already approved content. Additionally I hope to get users more interested in foreign languages. The script will go through the equivalents of the Category:Wikipedia featured articles of other languages and adding a {{Link FA:xx}} to the according articles in the english wikipedia right beside the interWikiLink - if doesn't contain a {{Link FA:xx}}, {{link FA:xx}} or {{Link_FA:xx}} already. I've improved the original script to include more lists and to be more foolproof. The script is already running stable on the Swedish and Czech wikipedia.

Discussion

Bot trial run approved for the duration of one week. Seems interesting. Sources and procedure are clearly given and simple enough.Voice-of-All 23:42, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

 Approved. This bot has been running unapproved for quite some time, but treating it as a trial, things have been great and this seems like a useful bot. I'm approving this bot for usage at up to 6 edits per minute and it shall run with the bot flag. -- RM 21:49, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

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