Automatic or Manually Assisted: No edits currently, Automatic if trial is successful
Programming Language(s): Python using wikitools
Function Overview: Automatic disambiguation of some ambiguous links using collaborative filtering.
Edit period(s): Daily
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: Details of the proposed bot's operation appear on its user page. Right now, I would like the have the bot approved so that it can generate results to compare to human disambiguation without making any edits. If these trials are deemed successful, I would return here to ask for approval for it to commit edits itself.
Are you requesting the bot flag just to make larger queries? Or, will the bot be making edits outside of its user space during the trial? How much data will it be transferring from the database? Wronkiew (talk) 04:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This was previously discussed at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 26#Link disambiguation bot, to general approval. This particular request--downloading the data for 6000 pages, with a good objective in mind--looks uncontroversial to me. – Quadell (talk) 14:12, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Speedily Approved. Go for it. 03:54, 19 April 2009 (UTC)