User:ContribBot

I am a bot that 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

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: