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IUCNStatusBot

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Operator: AidenD (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 05:45, Tuesday, March 25, 2025 (UTC)

Function overview:

A bot that updates the IUCN Red List status of Wikipedia pages.

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual:

Automatic

Programming language(s):

Python

Source code available: https://github.com/DartAiden/IUCN_Status_Bot/tree/main

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): No discussion really applicable. I briefly made a request to see if anything was existing, only to receive little reply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests#IUCN_Status_Bot

Edit period(s):

Runce on

Estimated number of pages affected:

Around 11,000.

Namespace(s): Wikipedia pages for species.

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Not really relevant.

Function details:

This is a simple script to update the IUCN Red List status of Wikipedia pages for birds, though the functionality can most likely be extended elsewhere. The IUCN Red List status is a measure of conservation status included in the species box of most birds. This bot extracts the name of the citation to ensure contiguity of editing, updates the status itself, and then updates the reference. This bot would be run once now, to standardize the citations, and once every time the Red List is updated, though it is necessary only to run it with those species that are being updated. I may add other functionality in the future, such as updating the actual pages that list statuses (List of critically endangered birds).

Discussion

Would it be worth doing this on Wikidata instead, and then have the template pull from there? — Qwerfjkl talk 12:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote a bot once that did sommat similar updates by querying the IUCN API. There was sufficient adverse editor pushback that I retired the bot.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:49, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What was the nature of the pushback? ꧁Zanahary꧂ 21:16, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Convenience links: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 19, User talk:Trappist the monk/Archive 23#Monkbot Task 19 - IUCN status –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:23, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Looks like it was really a content dispute about whether "Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)" is a valid IUCN designation. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 21:34, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]