Operator: Amake (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): PHP

Function Summary:

Clean up articles about Japanese municipalities, such as Omi, Nagano by

• Applying the ((nihongo)) template to the article title
• Adding geodata in the form of ((coor title dm)), with data pulled from Google Maps

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

Multiple-time run (until all municipality articles are cleaned up; approximately 70% already done by hand)

Edit rate requested: 3 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No?

Function Details:

• Does regex search & replace on first line of article to apply nihongo template
• Uses a variation on this script to fetch and format coordinates from Google Maps
• Written in straight PHP with no libraries

Discussion[edit]

Care to do a couple sample edits? -- Tawker (talk) 18:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, here you go: Kosuge, Yamanashi, Hayakawa, Yamanashi, Kajikazawa, Yamanashi -Amake (talk) 23:11, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It also plays well with infobox templates, both current and deprecated: Tabayama, Yamanashi. -Amake (talk) 06:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks fine to me - do you want a bot flag for it - your edit ratio is borderline needing a flag but the task is also pretty routine and appears to be non-controversial. -- Tawker (talk) 00:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, flag me. Thanks. -Amake (talk) 07:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (20 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Looks fine so just a few should be fine. Is it within the rules of google maps to use them for this purpose? -- maelgwn - talk 00:29, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't find anything expressly forbidding it in the Maps API Terms of Use, but I sent in a query just to make sure. -Amake (talk) 23:37, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request Expired. feel free to re-open this if you want to. -- maelgwn - talk 03:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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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 Approved.

Operator: Amake (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted

Programming Language(s): PHP

Function Summary:

Clean up articles about Japanese municipalities, such as Omi, Nagano by

• Applying the ((nihongo)) template to the article title
• Adding geodata in the form of ((coor title dm)), with data pulled from Google Maps

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

Multiple-time run (until all municipality articles are cleaned up; approximately 70% already done by hand)

Edit rate requested: 3 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No?

Function Details:

• Does regex search & replace on first line of article to apply nihongo template
• Uses a variation on this script to fetch and format coordinates from Google Maps
• Written in straight PHP with no libraries

Discussion[edit]

((BAGAssistanceNeeded))I was waiting for a reply from Google about whether this bot would violate the Google Maps ToS, but I never received a response (and I was on vacation for a bit during the holidays). As best I can tell from here, this bot would not violate their ToS. Do I need to be re-authorized for my trial run (per above), or can I go to it? -Amake (talk) 05:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No go for it -- maelgwn - talk 07:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, that's 20. -Amake (talk) 14:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

 Approved. looks good -- maelgwn - talk 23:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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