WeRelate:Bots for page maintenance

About the Bots for page maintenance Committee

This page belongs to the Bots Committee members. Please feel free to edit as you see fit.

Overview Committee Liaison

Dallan is available as a liaison between this group and the Overview Committee. There may be times that additional help is needed for this group to operate smoothly. Some examples include: a need for additional volunteers, questions about tasks, requests for assistance with conflict resolution, requests for policy changes, etc. If you would like help, please feel free to contact me either via my talk page or via email

Current Bots Committee Members

• Dallan

If you would like to participate in this committee, please leave a message on the talk page. Thank you!

Source code

You can download a Java-based bot framework and examples from Github so you can start writing bots right away. If Java's not your thing, any language that makes it easy to issue HTTP requests will work. A data file containing the current contents of every page is also available - see the Github project for more information. If you write a bot that updates pages, please let me know before running it.

Projects

The current list of bots that are operating on WeRelate is available here

Bots currently perform the following tasks:

• Generate a google sitemap
• Rename sub-places in response to super-place renames
• update texts copied from Wikipedia
• update the place-index web pages under http://www.werelate.org/placelist and http://www.werelate.org/placealpha
• update the potential duplicates list at http://www.werelate.org/duplicates/families.html and individual potential duplicates at My Relate > Show duplicates

Projects needed

These projects need someone to write a bot. If you are interested, please add your name to the project:

• WeRelate:Suggestions/Automatically delete "emtpy" pages for living people
• WeRelate:Suggestions/Tool for checking consistency of data

If you would like to work on a project not listed above, please enter a brief description along with your username. For more information and support please leave a message for Dallan. Feel free to peruse WeRelate:ToDo List.