Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LatexBot

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LatexBot

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Operator: Mjaballah

Automatic or Manually Assisted:

Programming Language(s): Python

Function Summary:

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run):

Edit rate requested: X edits per TIME

Already has a bot flag (Y/N):

Function Details: The BotMjaballah is mainly designed to Scan the Wikipedia web-pages and collect all the Mathematical equations that it contains. Simply put it will search throughout the Wikipedia pages seeking all images (HTML images tags “<img …”) and selectively collecting among these images all the images that contain the “tex” CLASS Property( <img Class=”tex” …). This means that the image is a representation of a Latex Mathematical Formula. Luckly, Wikipedia encloses the Actual Tex code within the ALT Attribute of the image Tag.

Meaning that the bot's task is simply extracting these ALT Values and storing in the Database of All Equations found within Wikipedia.

Discussion

First, please edit this page from your proper account, to confirm ownership. Also, please fully fill out the above form. --ST47Talk·Desk 13:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Will the bot be editing? Do you have an account on another wiki where you're more active? (You have very few edits here) --ST47Talk·Desk 13:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Request Expired. Marking request as expired as it was either never transcluded to Wikipedia:BRFA or has had no attention for some time. Richard⁰⁶¹² 12:20, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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