Operator: Fritzpoll
Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic
Programming language(s): VB .Net with the DotNetWikiBot Framework
Source code available: No, but can easily be made available on request
Function overview: Scans desired categories on other language Wikipedias and finds articles that don't exist on en-wiki. Adds these articles to a list in project space to allow a group of editors to find articles to write.
Edit period(s): Occasional
Estimated number of pages affected: 1 project space page per run.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Not applicable
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: Bot will be provided with categories on other language Wikipedias to scan, as well as a project space page to output results to. I envisage this happening in single runs with multiple category/project page pairs per run which is why I'm requesting approval rather than just copy/pasting output from an "offline" process. The bot takes the category, obtains the subcategory tree and then checks all articles within that category for an en: transwiki link. If an article does not have said link, it is output onto the project page. For a better idea, see the test output at Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki/Spanish/Culture/Bot Run, which is exactly what the output should look like.
Greatly needed to draw up a directory of missing content from other wikis and can be used as a tool to work towards identifying exactly what is missing and working towards getting these articles into english as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki. Himalayan 09:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC) reply
Doesn't look like we're gonna get much more input from the project, but since the three members who have commented here all seem to support it, and it seems fairly uncontroversial but helpful, it is Approved. Feel free to add on more information about the pages to the list. -
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