Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/empedia1

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Denied.

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Operator: Empedia (talk · contribs)

Time filed: 10:29, Friday November 11, 2011 (UTC)

Automatic or Manual: Manual (No edit)

Programming language(s): C#

Source code available: Using WikiFunctions.dll

Function overview: This bot is getting the first section from one(many) wiki topics.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate):

Edit period(s): Continuous

Estimated number of pages affected: 0

Exclusion compliant (Y/N):  ?

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

Function details: More information at: www.empedia.com

Discussion

Denied. It sounds like you're planning to run a fork the wrong way. From Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks#Remote loading:

The appropriate way to run a mirror is to download a dump of the compressed 'pages-article' file and the images from http://download.wikimedia.org/, and then use a modified instance of MediaWiki to generate the required HTML, along with above mentioned copyrights information. Please use Articles, templates, image descriptions, and primary meta-pages (pages-articles.xml.bz2) for mirroring purposes.

Also, from wikitech:Robot policy, if it's really necessary to get updates more frequently than monthly via database dumps,

• You may fetch recent changes wikitext using prop=revisions&rvprop=content if you do this very shortly after the edit. You may not do it on a batched daily basis.
• You may download HTML data for recently changed pages by fetching the standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAGENAME URL, without any cookies and including the Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate HTTP header. This will minimize front-end cache misses. You may not use the API or any other URL scheme to fetch parsed output.

Note that, unless you need the apihighlimits permission, neither of these options requires an account much less an approved bot. And in any case, you must be sure to specify a custom User-Agent string including information by which the sysadmins can contact you. Anomie⚔ 12:49, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

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