Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT 41

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. To request review of this BRFA, please start a new section at WT:BRFA. The result of the discussion was Approved.

Operator: Anomie⚔

Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised

Programming language(s): Perl

Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/ArticleCreationGrapher.pm

Function overview: Load the creation date of articles and create a graph showing creation over time.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 79#Automatically generated graph, User talk:Anomie#Regarding Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force/Articles created

Edit period(s): Periodic

Estimated number of pages affected: 1 per month at this time

Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes

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

Function details: The bot will load the creation date of a set of pages (e.g. all mainspace pages whose talk pages are listed in Category:Dermatology task force articles), create a graph (like this one), and upload it to an appropriate filename. If necessary, it will also create a page much like this one. This will be done infrequently, most likely once per month on the 1st.

Discussion

At this time, the bot will only create File:File-WikiProject Medicine - Dermatology task force - Articles created.svg and will not edit Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force/Articles created. But should User:SvickBOT go down, I would like to be able to pick up the updating of that page without having to come back for another BRFA. If some other WikiProject wants the same sort of graph, I would again like to be able to do so without having to come back for another BRFA. Anomie⚔ 23:00, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Seems entirely uncontroversial, and desired, so I will approve this shortly if there are no objections. –xeno^talk 23:03, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• This is totally awesome. Thank you! ---kilbad (talk) 00:56, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Also, can we do this under User:DermBOT? I think it would be more organized to have all the dermatology related bot tasks in the same place. Thoughts? ---kilbad (talk) 17:31, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
•  Approved. MBisanz ^talk 05:30, 29 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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