Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Trailbehind-bot

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 Denied.

Trailbehind-bot

• (BRFA
• Approved BRFAs
• talk
• contribs
• count
• SUL
• logs
• page moves
• block log
• rights log
• flag)

Operator: Trailbehind-bot (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary: Collect geo-data.

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

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details: TrailBehind.com's bot will find links on wikipedia that refer to things in TrailBehind.com's geo-database, and create a geographic index of wikipedia data. For example, we will try and find links to all National Parks on Wikipedia, and link those pages on the maps on TrailBehind.com. We'll find links to rivers, lakes, campsites, and other natural phenomena.

Discussion

You need to expand the function detail, I have no idea what the bot is going to be doing. BJ^Talk 10:08, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Why does this need a bot account? All you need is page titles? Unless this needs anything especially complex, it should use a database dump. Mr.Z-man 03:00, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Who is the operator here? It appears that the bot is approving itself, which I do not think is allowed. Tohd8BohaithuGh1 (t·c·r) 01:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Denied. BJ^Talk 22:03, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.