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: Alkeemik (talk)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: both, some tasks manually but most automatic.

Programming Language(s): C# (DotNetWikiBot Framework)

Function Summary: Crosslinking between Estonian wikipedia, mostly reading data from en.wikipedia.org and writing et.wikipedia.org

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

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

Function Details: Automatic find Estonia related articles and make links (et <-> en). Manually assisted script, to reduce the manual copy-paste overheads. Improve Estonian Wikipedia!

Discussion[edit]

Is it approved for these tasks on the et.wp? LegoK^ontribsT^alkM 20:38, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We need you to specifically list every task you intend to run on this bot. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹoɟʇs(st47) 00:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, will this bot be editing pages on en.wiki? Or just reading from them? – Quadell ^(talk) 13:20, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Editing pages is only write et.wiki links, not more. Other manual actions is just reading (many queries): find articles , copy sport tables (no need to translate), copy templates, copy Categories and later manual translation. Alkeemik (talk)

It looks like it would be more important for you to get permission from the et.Wiki, rather than here. Perhaps you should ask at et:Vikipeedia:Üldine arutelu? If you get permission there, then the interwiki part here should be pretty straightforward. – Quadell ^(talk) 17:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SamuraiBot has bot flag in et.wiki [1] Alkeemik (talk)

Oh good. If all you're doing here is adding an interwiki "[[et:whatever]]" link, and so long as you don't do more than 6 edits per minute, I'll approve for trial. – Quadell ^(talk) 20:55, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete.

• Your changes look pretty good so far, but be careful about redirects. Note this change, for instance. That's probably not what you wanted to do. – Quadell ^(talk) 12:48, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• How is this coming along? SQL^{Query me!} 06:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• I am sorry for that, it was bug in DotNetWikiBot Framework. There was syntax #redirect: [[]] and this colon looks incorrect. I reported "redirect detected page" bug to author and sending fixcode but he was not so optimistic. He replied: "I fixed that regular expression several times before, but new syntax errors arise, as you see. I don't know if it is worth fixing again, we can't foresee every syntax violation." Anyway, i fixed mine code and its not a problem. Step by step i try improve code and at moment manually checking everyday backward is all correct. 50 edits completed. Alkeemik (talk)

 Approved. BJ^Talk 09:48, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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