User:VeblenBot
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This user account is a bot operated by CBM (talk). It is a legitimate alternative account, used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. The bot is approved and currently active; the relevant request for approval can be seen here. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
This account is named in honor of Oswald Veblen.
For the time being, VeblenBot is editing from the Wikimedia Toolserver, so if it is blocked then autoblock must be disabled.
[edit] Tasks
- (Inactive)
- (Inactive)
- (Inactive) Table of protected edit requests now maintained by AnomieBOT. See WP:PERTABLE and WP:SPERTABLE
- (Inactive)
- (Active) Maintain lists of category contents (task request). Updated 10 minutes past the hour.
- (Active) Make announcements for pages marked as policies or guidelines (task request). Runs around 18:52 UTC daily.
- (Inactive)
- Post warnings to Wikipedia talk:Peer review when the peer review page is close to exceeding the template limits (task request). Runs hourly. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:34, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Suggestions welcome
Please feel free to suggest improvements at User talk:CBM.
[edit] Code
VeblenBot's code is written in perl and published in svn on the toolserver. It can be browsed online starting at https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/cbm/.
To download the Mediawiki::API and Mediawiki::Edit modules, run
To download the bot scripts, run
or
where PROJECT can be:
categories- make lists of category contentsmath- assessment tables for the mathematics projectper- table of protected edit requestspolicies- announcements of pages marked as policy
Please feel free to request any code that isn't included in the svn archive yet.
