User:TAOBot/Description


 * User:TAOBot's development is (in the first place and at current time) driven by a "getting-things-done" principle and shall bring immediate support the people working on project TAO.
 * User:TAOBot shall be used by one or mutliple scripts run on one of our hosts (cronjob) and mainly use api.php.
 * Documetation for the project done on the userpages. Source code will be free and open.
 * Purposes:
 * 1) Keeping track of all pages related to the project:
 * 2) Crawling Wikiversity for pages prefixed by TAO or tagged by categories of the project (TAO, TAO Module, ...); namespaces: main, talk, files, maybe more.
 * 3) Fill its own watchlist with the results of the crawl. This watchlist can be used by erveryone via Syndication; Token: TAOBotToken
 * 4) Maintain a list of all crawled pages on a site of the project. For easy reference by users.
 * 5) Alert or get into action if prefixed and categorized pages desync.
 * 6) Provide an interface or view on all changes of pages belonging to the project. Ideas so far:
 * 7) Fill a simple Wordpress blog with changes containing diffs, so users can watch changes in their browser not having to maintain their personal watchlist, can individually subscribe by email.
 * 8) Testing will take place at http://tao.zawiw-ulm.de/