Hi Milos, I have a toolserver account I am willing to run the bot on for the English Wikinews. We shall have a chat at some point over the weekend - can I try and catch you on IRC?
Regards, Paul W User:Skenmy 2009/6/18 Milos Rancic <[email protected]> > I finally made a weather bot according to my wishes. Its characteristics > are: > > * It gathers information from wund.com, but it is possible to make > plugins for other sites and protocols. > * It may gather data from all over the world. > * It may be localized in any language. > > The only problem is that one iteration takes at least 5-7 minutes just > for weather in Serbia and just for Wikinews in Serbian. Probably, I > would be able to run enough of instances for covering weather in > Serbia for all Wikinews editions (or, questionable, to run enough of > instances to cover the whole world for sr.wn). That means that I'll > need your help (people who are able to run bots as cron jobs), so we > may cover the whole world for all Wikinews editions. > > My other ask is related to programming the bot. I prefer to make the > bot as a collaborative work because it is not reasonable to expect > maintenance of one relatively huge project by just one person. I may > make subversion repository at SourceForge (or at one of the servers in > the company where I am working). If anyone of you are willing to join > me, let me know that. Also, all other ideas are welcome. > > You may see its output here [1] (in Serbian). > > [1] - > http://sr.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8:%D0%92%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5/%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0/%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l >
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