User:ContribBot

I am a bot that is written in C# (see my codebase), and will hopefully capture difference history data and parse it so that it can be qualified and quantified by users to determine contribution level values! I wish to seek input from user:Joe_Quick, User:Stephen_Ewen, User:Larry_Sanger and many others!

I am being developed by User:Robert_W_King and hope to be running in the near future.

Sandbox

This is his sandbox.

Status

HE works. Sort of. --Robert W King 20:35, 24 October 2007 (CDT)

To-Do List

Always: Do not make bot run amok

• Fix run-time errors. --Robert W King 21:32, 24 October 2007 (CDT)
• Get to "operational" status. --Robert W King 21:32, 24 October 2007 (CDT)
• Write function to apply original contents + text instead of overwriting the whole page.

• backup Original page as a Original Page text file (with timestamp)

Writes out files with "yyyy.mm.dd_hh.mm.ss_title.txt" format, and replaces ":" with "." / "/" with "_".

"User:ContribBot/Sandbox" now is "yyyy.mm.dd_hh.mm.ss_User.ContribBot_Sandbox.txt".

--Robert W King 13:33, 25 October 2007 (CDT)

• save Original page to an edit file
• append text to the edit file
• save edit file
• write new edit file to page

• Write function to gather page history

• browse to the page history or most recent diff page
• dump contents of xml-tag "revision"

• Parse change text (colored in red) from regular text

• identify "prev diff" link
• browse to prev diff
• repeat

Updates from R. King

The error I'm currently getting is this: