Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Mathbot

Mathbot

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Operator: Mathbot

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatical.

Programming Language(s): Perl.

Function Summary:

Most edits are for the WP:1.0 project, it updates the pages listed at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index. The bot also adds an edit summary counter for administrator candidates, and updates the list of mathematics articles. The bot has been doing those tasks for a very long time.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): It edits daily. Most edits are at the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index which run from 4AM UTC for say six hours.

Edit rate requested: X edits per TIME At most two edits per second for say six hours every day.

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

Function Details:

It reads all subcategories of Category:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments and outputs the data as subpages of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/ (see the index).

Also, it reads all math categories and outputs the results in the list of mathematics articles.

Some other miscellaneous functions are described at User:Mathbot. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)