Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CwraschkeDataBot

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Approved.

CwraschkeDataBot

Operator: Cwraschke (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Supervised. Also, there will be NO EDITS. This request is for a read-only Bot.

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary: Collect data on inter-wiki links to construct a network. This is done for an and-of-semester research project.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): NA

Function Details: This bot will extract all interwiki links that are contained within articles of a category (e.g. Category:Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) to construct a snapshot of a network of interwiki links for a research project. Doing this job manually is very tedious, and so I am requesting approval for this Bot to do the task for me. This Bot will read only!

Discussion

How many requests is the bot going to be making? Does it need apihighlimits? BJ^Talk 20:28, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I plan two use information from about 2,000 articles. While high limits are nice, I would be able to time the requests to whatever limit you allow me. What is the standard limit you place on requests? I tried researching exactly what apihighlimits or the lack thereof implies, but obtained conflicting information. Could you clarify? --Cwraschke (talk) 23:27, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Read only, decent task. Please honor maxlag=5 (read about it here.) --uǝʌǝs ʎʇɹoɟ ʇs(st47) 23:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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