Operator: — Carl ( CBM · talk)
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Summary: Creates pages that apply a template to the contents of a category, like User:VeblenBot/C/Requests for peer review
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous
Edit rate requested: once per hour, one edit per category being tracked
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y
Function Details:
This uses a toolserver query [1] to get the contents of a category along with the timestamp each page was added to the category. A file is created with one line per page, with each page being fed into a template. This file is uploaded into the bot's user space, but it can be transcluded elsewhere of course. The idea is to use this to automate Wikipedia:Peer review and possibly other pages subject to consensus about automating them.
Update 2008-3-1: the bot no longer uses the toolserver, since the API now returns the timestamps when articles were added to a category.
Approved. looks good. --
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ʇs(st47) 23:06, 27 November 2007 (UTC)