:Thanks for getting back to me about the proposal for the bot for 1.0.  Sorry I took a few days to reply, things are incredibly busy for me right now!  I'll try to answer:
 "is the bot to just make the list of articles above a certain quality and importance, and mark out any problems (making a table, for example?)": YES, as far as I can say at this point in time.
 "Also, will it run off a category to check, or another sort of list": If you mean run off in the sense of use as a source, then it will use the talk page categories just like Mathbot.  If you mean run off in the sense of produce, it will produce the worlist, log, alphabetical list and statistics (also like Mathbot).
Does this clarify things?  You should probably take a look at how Mathbot does its thing, and ask Oleg any seriously technical questions - he may be able to give you some of his code.  (Those who have looked at Mathbot's code have commented that it is very nicely done) Once again, many thanks for taking an interest in this; if this can work out it will transform our productivity in the next year from the 1-5000 range into the 10-50,000 article range! Cheers,