Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DottyQuoteBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was

Approved.

DottyQuoteBot[edit]

Operator: Dottydotdot

Automatic or Manually Assisted:Automatic-unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Overview: Gets Wikiquote's Quote of the Day every day

Edit period(s): Daily

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function Details: This gets the current Quote of the day from Wikiquote, so it can then be used on talk pages etc. I think it would be good if I put it into maybe 3 different templates-one with just the quote-as seen at User:DottyQuoteBot/qotd, one in a box without the accompanying image, & one in a box with the image. I don't know enough about making templates etc. to make these so will have to ask someone else to do that. Feel free to ask any questions about it! Cheers

Discussion[edit]

Is it just going to edit its own userspace? - Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 17:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If not, then it should probably set up some similar structure {{POTD}} has. Amalthea 17:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, that was just so I could test it & show it worked-yep, definitely something like POTD-as I say, I don't know enough to do that-so hopefully someone will help! dottydotdot (talk) 19:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Although I doubt we would bother with the archive of them all-that's something for Wikiquote to do-so just the main template(s). dottydotdot (talk) 19:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Looks to be quite a useful bot, sort of similar to Wikinews Importer Bot (talk · contribs). Cirt (talk) 08:47, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (5 days). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Let's see how it does. – Quadell ^(talk) 18:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, it's going to do it at Template:QOTD, Thanks Dottydotdot (talk) 19:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to put the line "Imported from Wikiquote..." in <noinclude> or something similar, and use <br /> instead of <br>. Lego K^ontribs T^alkM 02:43, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trial complete.OK I think that's 5 times-two problems-the month date was being shortened to 3 letters which is fine for May, but not for June & the first 0 for numbers below 10 wasn't being taken off-so it couldn't find the quote on Wikiquote-both fixed-so a lucky time to test it at! Dotty••|☎ 10:04, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Looks good. – Quadell ^(talk) 13:20, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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