High priority

• Auto-add {{main}} for sublists with their own articles (insects within arthropod lists, etc)
• Add more reptile common names from other sources
• Update Lists of extinct animals

Wikipedia app issues

When lists displayed in Wikipedia's official mobile app:

• Pie chart does not display correctly
• Scientific names are hidden and cannot be discovered for red links (todo: display scientific name in brackets for red links) — In Progress (will be fixed after 2016-1 pages uploaded. Not fixing for birds and mammals)
• Redirect notices aren't displayed, hiding the scientific name and—for example—redirects from a subspecies to species. (need to display scientific names when there's not an exact match?) (now needed for birds and mammals only)
• Breakout lists: e.g. split out insects from arthropods list but leave stats and a link in behind. Also gastropods from invertebrate, etc

Missing text/features in existing lists

• A key to IUCN abbreviations (though chart should do), e.g. List of extinct and endangered species of Italy, List of mammals of Great Britain
• sort List of fungi by conservation status and Chromista by IUCN status
• Threatened species estimates: Lower estimate, Best estimate, Upper estimate. [1] — done (partially): Upper estimate added
• Note changes (especially "genuine") [2]
• Plants lists: split up lists?
• Extinction lists: Fix intro text. Custom chart or table. Year last seen and country. Check "since 1500" text. Mention that local extinctions aren't included.

Other lists / extended scope

• Plants (find splits used by IUCN?)
• List problematic taxoboxes, e.g. taxobox with two species: [3], or articles with multiple taxoboxes: [4], missing binomial field [5], same taxobox used on multiple articles (Dingo and Dingo (taxon)), Type species but no binomial [6].
• Per country lists — e.g. "Threatened species endemic to Peru" (only existing in Peru) and/or "Threatened bats of Peru" (with Peru in their range)
• Per major taxon lists (listing all species assessed in all categories, e.g. "Snakes by IUCN red list category" or "List of threatened snakes")
• Per threat type: e.g. logging
• Minor taxon lists or tables: E.g. just ants, or just wrist-winged gliders.
• Generate ref tag for a taxon (IUCN reference) from taxon or red list url. (via JSON interface)
• Generate pie graphs as SVG and upload, replacing the current charts
  • Regenerate graphs such as File:IUCN Red List 2007.svg which is used in various places
  • Incorporate other data which estimates the total number of species for various taxa, so it can be contrasted in charts.
• Complete LR/cd list for animals generated (LR/cd is an obsolete category): Conservation-dependent species, but need same for plants
• "Possibly extinct", e.g. semi-automatically generated this list: List of recently extinct mammals § Possibly extinct. Tweak and better automate.
• Report unusual naming: e.g. if species name used in article title for a family that is otherwise named by common name.
• Report of any taxa which are missed in by-category-list and by-taxon-list
• Stats on trends (e.g. increasing, decreasing)
• Create a plants-only sublist of "Redirects to same title" report for plants wikiproject
• List of threatened fishes/species by sea ala Category:Lists of fishes by sea
• Find taxa which mention "possibly extinct" in their descriptions (on IUCN and/or wikipedia), but are not tagged by IUCN as such. e.g. Elongate bitterling
• Better common name handling for "nominal subspecies" (e.g. Cyclura rileyi rileyi).
• Full list of just undescribed species (sp. nov.)

Systemics and common names

• Gather taxon groupings and common names from templates, e.g. Template:Murinae (Stenocephalomys–Xeromys)
• Incorporate additional taxons (heading levels) from Wikidata and/or CoL
• Bug: If a taxon containing only one other taxon is reached, doesn't attempt to split it based on grandchild node contents, e.g. see List of near threatened arthropods#Malacostracans
• Add subheading "Order: Lagomorpha" style subheadings ala List of mammals of Great Britain, List of recently extinct birds
• List of family/higher taxa in "other" sections, or in brackets after the name

Running the bot

• Automatic upload of updated lists
• Automatic public logs: warnings and errors
• Make a log of non-beastie bot changes to its pages so they can be checked if they're clobbered
• Option to only update pages which haven't been manually updated (e.g. don't clobber changes for a minor Beastie Bot update)
• Versioning: auto increment version number and make beastie bot aware of its version.
• Logging in broken

Open source the code

• Database support: allow use of MariaDB Wikipedia mirror (in addition to current Xowa-format SQLite database support)
• Remove other subprojects from source code
• Move to WMF labs
• Don't login if don't need to
• Make sure everything works on Linux
• Fix hard coded file locations, settings, task lists, etc

Rules lists and tweaking without code

• Make rules/exceptions list wiki-editable
• Better way of creating intermediate taxa (e.g. new world monkeys, microbats, snakes), and making sure some taxa don't end up unclassified.
• Automatic grouping into intermediate taxa when grouping can be made unambiguously (i.e. matching several sources)
• Web interface
• Special rule type for pair names (pigeons and doves, dragonflies and damselflies)
• Create report of unneeded/obsolete rules

Refactoring

• Switch to the IUCN JSON API instead of CSV (might use Unicode, might get more regular updates as the CSV export takes days)
• Intermediate caching of results rather than regenerating everything each run
• Cache common name dupes list
• Make template to insert graph data into, e.g. "Template:IUCN pie graph" and then "Template:IUCN pie graph of lizards"
• Make pie charts into svg files, e.g. "File:IUCN mammals chart 2016-1.svg"
• Clean up exceptions list for easier editing/maintenance (group/sort)
• Don't re-generate sections so often (cache)

Open questions

• force split turtles/tortoises
• force split microbats/macrobats

Documentation

• What it's doing
• How grouping and splitting works / how to fine tune
• How common names are found
• Editing the rules/exceptions list