User:AnomieBOT/TaskList
This page lists basic information about every task coded for all AnomieBOT bots, including links to the bot approval and individual shutoff pages.
Tasks
[edit]Current
[edit]Account | Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Approval | Description |
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AnomieBOT | SourceUploader | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2008-08-15 |
Updates the pages under User:AnomieBOT/source to reflect the current source of the bot.
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AnomieBOT | WatchlistUpdater | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2008-08-15 |
Updates algorithmically-defined "watchlists" (like User:Anomie/uw-templates) when pages are created or deleted. The bot only edits when something actually changes.
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AnomieBOT | OrphanReferenceFixer | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2008-09-04
Supplemental: |
Applies the following corrections to pages in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting and/or Category:Pages with broken reference names. This is often enough to get them removed from the category.
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AnomieBOT | IFDCloser | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2008-12-01
Supplemental: |
Peform the following tasks at WP:FFD:
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AnomieBOT | AFDMergeFromCleaner | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-01-03 |
Remove instances of {{afd-merge from}} where the merge has been completed. Report instances of {{afd-merge from}} where the AFDed page is now a redirect to a different target.
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AnomieBOT | RandomPagePicker | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-01-14 |
Periodically choose a random article from a category or union/intersection of categories and write it to a page, as instructed by {{User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage}}.
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AnomieBOT | OnThisDayTagger | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-05-26 |
Process each anniversary article (e.g. Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 31 for 2008-10-31, 2007-10-31, 2006-10-31, and so on) to extract the bolded links and tag the corresponding article talk pages with {{OnThisDay}}.
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AnomieBOT | TalkTemplateMover | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-07-09
Supplemental: |
Find transclusions of {{translated page}} and other templates documented for talk pages mistakenly placed on article pages, and move them to the corresponding talk page.
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AnomieBOT | AltLinkTemplateSubster | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-12-13 |
Replace all transclusions of {{cbb link}} or {{cfb link}} where the most specific alternative exists with the specific link, to reduce the #ifexist parserfunction load. Similar templates may be added in the future as needed.
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AnomieBOT | BAGBot | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-11-17
Supplemental: |
Various BAG-related maintenance tasks:
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AnomieBOT | CategoryCleaner | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-12-13 |
Remove pages from categories where the page does not meet the page inclusion criteria. For example, Category:Wikipedia redirects is explicitly stated that it shouldn't contain any actual redirects.
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AnomieBOT II | TFATitleSubpageCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-05-31
Supplemental: |
Fill in the daily subpages of Template:TFA title with the title of each day's featured article.
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AnomieBOT | TaskRedirectChecker | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2010-06-16 |
Check the permanent redirects under User:AnomieBOT/req/ to validate the anchor still exists in the target page. If the anchor can be found in an archive subpage, the redirect will be updated. Otherwise, the bot will ask for help on its talk page. Note this doesn't handle {{anchor}} or the like, just TOC headers.
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AnomieBOT | DeletionSortingCleaner | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-07-06
Supplemental: |
Perform certain tasks for WP:WikiProject Deletion sorting:
If necessary, the bot may be kept off a deletion sorting subpage by adding {{bots|optout=AnomieBOT/DeletionSortingCleaner}} to that page.
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AnomieBOT | ITNCArchiver | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-09-10 |
Daily at 0000 UTC:
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AnomieBOT | AccidentalLangLinkFixer | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-01-02 |
Periodically checks pages in Category:Pages automatically checked for incorrect links for categories and language links seemingly in running text, and adds the necessary ":" to make them wikilinks instead.
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AnomieBOT | TemplateSubster | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-10-06 |
Subst templates in Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted. See documentation for details.
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AnomieBOT | CHUUClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-10-26
Supplemental: |
Perform basic clerking tasks at WP:CHU/U.
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AnomieBOT | TagDater | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-12-13
Supplemental: |
Date maintenance tags in articles listed in first-level subcategories of Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month and Category:Wikipedia categories sorted by month.
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AnomieBOT | ACNClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-01-24 |
Update crosslinks on WP:ACN and WT:ACN when content is archived.
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AnomieBOT | FlagIconRemover | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-09-12 |
Remove flag icons from certain infoboxes and layout templates per community consensus.
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AnomieBOT | NobotsHallOfShame | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2011-09-11 |
Update a list of {{bots}} usage.
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AnomieBOT | TFDClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-11-08 |
Peform the following tasks at WP:TFD:
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AnomieBOT | PERTableUpdater | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2011-12-04 |
Update User:AnomieBOT/PERTable, User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/EPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/COIREQTable, and User:AnomieBOT/PREQTable.
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AnomieBOT | ShowByDateSubster | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-03-21 |
Replace expired instances of {{show by date}} with the "after" text. Should an instance need to be not substed, use
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AnomieBOT | NewArticleAFDTagger | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-04-15 |
If a new article has been deleted in the past via AFD, add {{old AfD multi}} to its talk page.
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AnomieBOT | DatedCategoryCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-05-30
Supplemental: |
Create needed categories under Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month and Category:Wikipedia categories sorted by month.
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AnomieBOT | DRVClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-08-19 |
Peform the following tasks at WP:DRV:
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AnomieBOT | TemplateTalkRedirectCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2013-11-05 |
Create redirects for non-existing talk pages of certain pages:
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AnomieBOT II | TemplateUnsubstifier | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2013-11-17 |
Apply Module:Unsubst to maintenance templates.
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AnomieBOT III | BrokenRedirectDeleter | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2014-02-26
Supplemental: |
Cleans up broken redirects:
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AnomieBOT | IMONumberRedirectCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2015-04-07 |
Create redirects for IMO numbers, based on categorization in Category:IMO numbers.
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AnomieBOT | EnDashRedirectCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2016-03-08
Supplemental: |
Create redirects for articles with titles containing en-dashes from the corresponding title with ASCII hyphens. Update these redirects later as targets change.
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AnomieBOT | CFDClerk | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2016-11-19 |
Peform the following tasks at WP:CFD:
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AnomieBOT | CategoryLister | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2017-01-22 |
Copy category membership to pages under User:AnomieBOT/C, based on configuration in User:AnomieBOT/CategoryLister/Categories.
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AnomieBOT | PeerReviewArchiver | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2017-02-18 |
Archive old requests for Peer Review:
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AnomieBOT | POTDPageCreator | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2017-02-10 |
Create Template:POTD protected/YYYY-MM-DD two days before the corresponding date, in time for it to be transcluded onto WP:Main Page/Tomorrow.
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AnomieBOT III | POTDPageDeleter | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2019-03-17 |
Delete Template:POTD protected/YYYY-MM-DD (per WP:CSD#G6) 30 days after the listed date, and remove the "See also" link from the corresponding Template:POTD/YYYY-MM-DD.
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AnomieBOT | TFDTemplateSubster | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2020-02-02 |
Subst templates to implement the results of a deletion discussion, based on listing at User:AnomieBOT/TFDTemplateSubster.
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AnomieBOT | WikiUninterestingNumbers | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. Begun 2024-01-28 |
Create a page listing some interesting numbers:
This assumes that all number articles will be at or have a redirect from a title like 42 (number). |
On demand
[edit]Account | Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Approval | Description |
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AnomieBOT | AutoAssessor2 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2008-12-07 |
Redirects and disambiguation pages will be automatically assessed with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA, stubs will be automatically assessed with class=stub if not already assessed, and non-article pages will be automatically assessed with the appropriate class and importance=NA.
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer15 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-03-07 |
Replace all transclusions of one template with another (or with several others depending on template parameters, etc), when a template must be renamed. Normally, this will be the result of a TFD, but it could be used for any clear-cut case. It will not be done just to replace a template redirect when the redirect is going to remain.
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer16 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2009-05-03 |
When consensus exists for deprecating external link parameters from an infobox, the bot will go through all transclusions of the infobox, remove the external link parameters, and add the corresponding external link or external link template to the article's External links section if that section does not already contain the corresponding link. An External links section will be created if necessary. Any issues encountered will be logged. Each page will only be processed once (a local database holds the pageids of all successfully-processed pages).
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AnomieBOT | SafesubstFixer | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2010-05-05 |
Replace
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AnomieBOT | ReplaceExternalLinks4 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-11-02 |
Replace URL redirector links with direct links to the target URL.
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AnomieBOT | ReplaceExternalLinks5 | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2011-12-04 |
Add archiveurl for dead or dying links, when an archive can be found at archive.org or webcitation.org, and optionally tag unarchived links with {{dead link}} or a similar template.
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AnomieBOT | RedirectBypasser | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2012-06-06 |
Bypass redirects in certain limited cases, currently:
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AnomieBOT III | MassDeleter | Here | ![]() |
Approved 2016-04-13 |
Performs mass deletions after consensus at XfD or other processes. Can also CSD associated talkpages and their subpages. |
In development
[edit]Account | Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Status | Description |
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AnomieBOT | SandboxCleaner | Here | ![]() |
On hold |
Clears a sandbox page to predefined content once every 12 hours (at or shortly after 00:00 and 12:00 UTC), and checks once per hour to ensure the header is present on the page. As with User:SoxBot IV, this task takes instruction from User:X!/Sandbots.css.
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AnomieBOT | BadImageTagger | Here | ![]() |
On hold |
Add {{restricted use}} to files listed at MediaWiki:Bad image list, and remove it from files not listed at that page.
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AnomieBOT III | DatedCategoryDeleterTest | Here | ![]() |
N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. On hold |
Investigation for whether a bot to G6 emptied dated maintenance categories would be useful. It will log to a subpage and we'll see how often it actually finds anything. |
Awaiting approval
[edit]None at this time.
Past
[edit]Account | Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Status | Description |
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-09-04 |
Replace {{WP MMOG}} (and old redirects) with {{WikiProject Video games}}. Also canonicalizes redirects to {{WikiProject Video games}} on the pages it edits for this reason, since it's editing them anyway.
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer2 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-09-08 |
Replace {{WikiProject Nintendo}} (and old redirects) with
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer3 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-09-21 |
Per Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 22#Template:Female adult bio, go through all uses of {{Female adult bio}} to remove the obsolete
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer4 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-11-01 |
Replace {{WikiProject Neurology}} (and old redirects) with
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AnomieBOT | AutoAssessor | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-10-30 |
Assess existing {{Physics}} and {{WPAstronomy}} on talk pages of redirect/disambig pages with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA.
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AnomieBOT | ReplaceExternalLinks | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-11-12 |
Replace links to the domains w*.allmusic.com with just "allmusic.com", as those other domains no longer function.
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer5 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-11-25 |
Replace {{Segaproject}} (and old redirects) with
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer6 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-12-02 |
Convert {{Infobox Aircraft}} in article space to the new {{Infobox Aircraft Begin}}{{Infobox Aircraft Type}} system.
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer7 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-11-25 |
Replace
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AnomieBOT | WikiProjectTagger | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2024-01-29 |
Tag articles in specified categories with a WikiProject template. Redirects and disambiguation pages will be automatically assessed with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA, stubs will be automatically assessed with class=stub, and non-article pages will be automatically assessed with the appropriate class and importance=NA.
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AnomieBOT | PUICloser | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2016-05-03
Supplemental: |
Peform the following tasks at WP:PUF:
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer10 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2008-12-29 |
Replace {{Zeldaproj}} (and redirects) with
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer11 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-01-11 |
For all pages in Category:Film articles using old needs infobox parameter, replace the
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer12 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-01-19 |
Replace
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer13 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-03-29 |
Replace the obsolete
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer14 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-03-26 |
Replace the obsolete
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AnomieBOT | WikiProjectWorker | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2024-01-29 |
Perform various tasks at the request of the affected WikiProjects:
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AnomieBOT | PageCreator | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-06-20 |
Create redirects from isotopes for WP:WikiProject Elements.
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AnomieBOT | PageMover | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2009-12-14 |
Move date articles (e.g. February 12, 2005) in Category:Days in 2003 and Category:Days in 2005 from article space to subpages of Portal:Current events.
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AnomieBOT | PageCreator2 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2010-06-22 |
Create redirects from titles with the correct (but not well supported) Romanian S-comma and/or T-comma diacritics to the existing titles using S-cedilla and/or T-cedilla.
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AnomieBOT | ArticleCreationGrapher | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2022-01-25 |
Creates a graph showing article creation for a project.
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AnomieBOT | ReplaceExternalLinks2 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2012-04-04 |
Process pages with geocities.com or oocities.com links to revert oocities.com spam, add archiveurl for geocities cites on archive.org or webcitation.org, change archived geocities links to archive.org or webcitation.org, and tag unarchived geocities links with {{dead link}}.
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AnomieBOT | EditorReviewArchiver | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2014-05-29 |
Archive reviews at WP:Editor review.
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AnomieBOT | ReplaceExternalLinks3 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2011-12-28 |
Process pages linking to http://www.nr.nps.gov/:
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MediationBot | MedComClerk | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2018-11-12 |
Perform basic clerking tasks at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation.
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MedcabBot | MedcabBot | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2012-07-27 |
Perform basic clerking tasks for Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal:
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AnomieBOT | TalkTagger | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2013-07-17 |
Tag talk pages with {{Reliable sources for medical articles}} when they meet the criteria laid out by WP:WPMED.
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AnomieBOT II | PageCreator3 | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2015-01-30 |
Create redirects from Regional Indicator Symbol pairs to the corresponding flag article.
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AnomieBOT III | SpamBlacklistBlocker | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2023-07-17 |
Block IPs that hit certain URLs on the spam blacklist too frequently.
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AnomieBOT III | OldIPUnblocker | Here | ![]() |
Completed 2019-05-20 |
Unblock non-range IPs blocked in 2008 or earlier, per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal about some indefinite IP blocks.
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AnomieBOT III | TFAProtector | Here | ![]() |
Inactive 2021-05-31 |
Apply pending changes protection to Today's Featured Article while it's on the main page. Currently won't do anything pending an RFC to determine whether the community wants this to continue past the trial that ended 2021-05-31. |
Withdrawn
[edit]Account | Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Status | Description |
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer8 | Here | ![]() |
Withdrawn |
Remove {{Catwikiproject}} after Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 November 4#Template:Catwikiproject
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AnomieBOT | TemplateReplacer9 | Here | ![]() |
Withdrawn |
Update |