Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Eubot 3

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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.

[edit] Eubot 3

tasks • contribs • count • sul • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • flag bot

Operator: Eugène van der Pijll

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: Adding redirects for synonyms of scientific names

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

Edit rate requested: ~6 edits per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Y

Function Details: Most articles about species (animals, plants, etc.) are reachable from their scientific (binomial) names. However, many species have more than one scientific name, for example, because they were independently discovered by two biologists, or because they were moved from one genus to another. I want to create redirects for all obsolete synonyms, to help navigation. (I've come across many obsolete synonyms in older books and on internet.)

I have an initial list of about 5500 synonyms, parsed from wikipedia taxoboxes; later, I'll add synonyms derived from other sources. I've left a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life about this bot task, and I'll consult them before using other sources, to judge their accuracy.

[edit] Discussion

Looks good to me; let's see how it does in practice. I expect the limitations you have suggested at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life at in fact implemented? If that is the case, Approved for trial (10 edits). at 2 edits per minute. — Coren (talk) 00:02, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Those limitations have been implemented. I have tested the bot, see Special:Contributions/Eubot. I have also tested it on articles that already existed; as you can see, Eubot does not touch these. That concludes the testing, as far as I can see; it's a very simple bot :-) . Eugène van der Pijll 23:01, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Excellent. Approved. Please keep an eye on it for the first few dozen edits just in case then let it loose. — Coren (talk) 23:07, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.