User:PhiloBot
 | This user account is a bot operated by Tresoldi (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it. |
This is the main page for PhiloBot, a bot that I had set up on Wikipedia intending to (semi-)automatically generate graphical relationships among philosophers/thinkers and, eventually, fix broken information boxes about them (some of which I did, manually). The approval is still to be found here.
Unfortunately, I soon realized that my idea was not as good as it originally sounded: even trying to limit the size of the graphics and the number of nodes, this kind of relationship graphic easily gets too confusing to be of any good; plus, it usually ends up incorporating very large files that would stress Wikipedia's servers without much gain for the readers.
Thus, I decided to suspend this bot. If you know hot to officially shut down a bot, please drop me a line at my talk page. tresoldi (talk) 04:24, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
