OwensQueryBot is to be developed as a read-only query bot. It is my hope to develop real-time statistical sampling methods using the bot and perhaps comparing them to some of the output at grok.se. Therefore using the database dump from 2008 wouldn't be useful for the real-time statistical applications I hope to develop.
Furthermore, since my goal is to develop parsimonious sampling methods, this bot will not use very much bandwidth (in fact, if designed properly it should hardly use more bandwidth than a human user). I plan on developing the code off of the pywikipedia framework, and plan on making it all open-source on this page because I'm hoping that other statisticians and interested parties will use my code to get their samplers developed as well. Owensmartin (talk) 01:40, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
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