Bot approval is needed for any task that's going to be editing at high
speeds or is (semi-)automated, which yours was. You can just request
approval for "adding claims based off of Wikipedia infoboxes" and say
you're going to start with films, and that will be good enough, so you
won't need to request approval again.
-- Legoktm
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Michael Hale <hale.michael.jr(a)live.com>wrote;wrote:
Oh, I thought bot approval was just for tasks that
have an indefinite
running time like cleaning vandalism, etc. I added a user-agent string to
identify my IP address, but I hadn't run into problems on Wikipedia without
one before. Am I supposed to re-apply each time I change a script?
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From: legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:21:44 -0500
To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Running "Infobox film" import script
Hi Michael,
I had blocked your IP before I saw this email. We have a bot policy (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot) that requires coders to get
approval before they can run their scripts (see
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot).
Your script did look pretty cool though :)
-- Legoktm
http://enwp.org/d:User:Legoktm
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Michael Hale <hale.michael.jr(a)live.com>wrote;wrote:
Here's the contributions from my IP address if you want to monitor it:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/108.235.225.145
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From: hale.michael.jr(a)live.com
To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:58:05 -0400
Subject: [Wikidata-l] Running "Infobox film" import script
I've been practicing using the Wikidata and MediaWiki APIs today. Even
though the Wikidata API is still being developed, using it was more
pleasant than parsing the templates. The good news is I'll probably be able
to reuse a lot of that code for other infoboxes that still need to be
imported. It's looking through 76000 articles for new statements it can add
using Wikidata's currently supported film properties, excluding the IMDb ID
because that isn't included in the infobox. So far it has added 691 new
statements to 68 movies. I forgot to add a counter for when it finds one
that already had all of the information entered. It will definitely have
some errors, but I scanned the results for the first 100 movies before I
started importing them, and I think the value-add will be much greater than
the number of errors.
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