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== Bungie.net Daily and Weekly Challenges Bot == | |||
I would like to propose a bot. Actually, I've already developed it because I had the time and it sounded like fun. So far I've been testing it on [[w:c:scratchpad]]. | |||
Bungie.net posts new [http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/globalchallenges.aspx daily and weekly challenges] every day (and week, respectively of course). So far I've been updating Halopedia's record of them (similar to [[List of Double EXP Weekend Playlists]]) manually. Please see [[Challenges]] and [[Challenges/2010-September]]. | |||
The bot I've created uses the account [[User:31stCenturyBot]]. Please see [[w:c:scratchpad:Challenges]], [[w:c:scratchpad:Challenges/2010-September]], and [[w:c:scratchpad:User:31stCenturyBot/Log]]. (I accidentally, manually, made two edits to Halopedia while signed in on that account. Normally I wouldn't have any reason to be signed in under the bot account anyway, so it won't happen again. Sorry.) | |||
It would only run once a day, manually initiated by me. It checks the page on Bungie.net and updates Challenges and Challenges/year-month accordingly. From the log on the Scratchpad wiki you can see I've been testing running it more than once per day, to make sure if someone else happened to update the page manually my bot doesn't make unnecessary edits. It's goal is always to find and alter the challenges table in whichever page. That way edits made by other users to other parts of the pages are unaffected by my bot. | |||
This bot would allow for a neat, orderly, and complete record of Halo: Reach's challenges over the course of the game's life. I would like to continue updating this wiki manually while testing my bot on the Scratchpad wiki for at least the next couple of days. I can of course make any changes you'd like and furnish the source code if anyone would like to see it. Thank you very much for your time, please let me know what you think. --[[User talk:31stCenturyMatt|31stCenturyMatt]] 22:45, September 28, 2010 (UTC) | |||
:I've continued updating the pages manually and testing my bot on the scratchpad wiki. There were a couple of kinks around the first of the month, though I'm pretty sure I've ironed them out. Any feedback anybody? Thank you. --[[User talk:31stCenturyMatt|31stCenturyMatt]] 03:12, October 6, 2010 (UTC) | |||