Operator:
Eagle 101
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Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automated
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Summary: To create articles on asteroids with infoboxes in the userspace
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): One time run
Edit rate requested: Five per minute
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function details: The bot would create articles on asteroids with infoboxes in them, but only in the userspace, and the articles would have to manually be added to the mainspace after more detail is added. There would be about 13,000 articles created. Only asteroids with official names would have articles created by the bot.
In essence the bot will be grabbing data from http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1 whose information is supposed to be in the public domain. The relevant information will go to infoboxes and help create stub class articles either in mainspace or in userspace. The bot will not overwrite an existing article. When the source is complete I will release it under GPL v2. —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:35, 9 October 2007 (UTC) reply
Astroid: 1 Ceres Cat: Main-belt Asteroid Discovered: Discovered 1801-Jan-01 by Piazzi, G. at Palermo Orbital elements time: Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454200.5 (2007-Apr-10.0) TDB ---Orbital elements--- e: 0.0797601732738271 a: 2.76595642396794 q: 2.5453432603244 Q: 2.5453432603244 i: 10.5867116079954 node: 80.4069591479241 peri: 73.15073411326651 M: 215.800962246862 period: 1680.221074097372<br>4.60 n: .2142575197691738 ---Physical parameters--- H: 3.34 mag G: 0.12 diameter: diameter 952.4 extent: extent 974.6 x 909.4 GM: GM 63.2 rot_per: 9.075 h albedo: 0.090 BV: .713 mag UB: .426 mag spec_T: G spec_B: C
Since I don't think there's any real risk with this, Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. --
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