Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MscannjrBOT

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Denied.

MscannjrBOT

Operator: MscannjrBOT (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 02:04, Friday November 12, 2010 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually assisted: supervised manually assisted

Programming language(s): Python

Source code available: Not available (yet)

Function overview: This bot will READ ONLY and will not write ANYTHING to Wikipedia. This bot will sample a number of English language pages from Wikipedia at random and count the frequency with which various words occur.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): None.

Edit period(s): a small number of requests a couple of times a day until I get the bot working properly. Then I may sample a few hundred pages until the results are statistically significant.

Estimated number of pages affected: I will not edit (make changes to) a single page, but I will read hundreds or even thousands of pages.

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): ?

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function details: Read text content of several hundred or several thousand pages. That is all.

Discussion

There are a number of issues with this bot request. Let's start with the most pressing.

A bot may not operate itself. The bot account may only be used for approved edits in line with the WP:Bot policy. Please use your normal user account for your editing.
Why does this task need a bot flag in the first place, and why can it not use a database dump instead?

Anomie ⚔ 02:55, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am curious what are you going to do with the samples? -- d'oh! _[talk] 03:02, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wondering who the operator is, as the BRFA was filed from the bot account and the account User:Mscannjr doesn't exist. Allmightyduck  What did I do wrong? 14:34, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Denied. Anomie ⚔ 03:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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