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Bot for coordinate addition to Indian city/town/village pages missing coords.
Dear Tinu,
I am an Indian Wikipedia contributor, and I _hate_ articles of towns and cities which lack coordinates. Therefore, I decided to do something about it, and I adopted some methods (used some Python scripts with the Yahoo! Maps API) to get the coordinates of various missing places, cross-check them on Google Maps, and then enter them on their page. I adopted this for Madhya Pradesh, and thankfully, managed to eliminate all but a handful or articles from Category:Madhya Pradesh location articles needing coordinates; I'll try to eliminate it fully.
Next, I wish to take up Tamil Nadu. However, I was hoping to use a bot to complete this task. I looked at the pywikipediabot sample scripts and wrote up a bot to remove the existing latitude/longitude (blank) spots in articles and replace them with mine. My idea is, if I separately create a text database of location coordinates, I can use a script to do the edits semi-automagically, to save time, and my fingers some pain.
Do you think this is a good idea? While I will reread the documentation for the bots, do you have any specific suggestions or comments regarding this?
It is a very great idea.. something that I have been thinking also to start... Now that you are near ready, register a Bot username and please file a BRFA for the bot approval. Me also being a BAG member , would like to see a trial of the bot. If successful, it will be a gr8 help to Indian settlements articles. One suggestion is that there is avoid rewriting the articles that already has geo-coordinates , if you have such plans in case. Looking forward to hear from you -- TinuCherian - 17:42, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Tinu, sorry if I am being impatient, but could you just confirm that the steps I have taken for requesting approval are the correct ones? I understand that review might take a long time, but that's fine. Thanks, and sorry for the trouble. :-) - Kumar Appaiah (talk) 01:26, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Tinucherian - I wanted to let you know that I have removed the link to the news story that you included in your message of condolence. His family is no doubt extremely distressed by this tragedy. If, perchance, they choose to look at his talk page, it will probably be a little easier for them if they don't wind up clicking a link that takes them back to one of the very sad news stories about the incident. I hope you don't mind; if you really feel it is important for it to be there, I will not revert you. Best, Risker (talk) 05:28, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Tinucherian. I couldn't help notice that you don't have a flag yet for the 2010 WikiCup. Might I suggest the Iran flag (1964-1979), or if you don't want to play under Iran, you could always be The Conch Republic (my personal favorite). But of course, you can pick yours, but I 'm throwing around suggestions. Enjoy! Secret Saturdays (talk to me)
19:47, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
