User:Tawkerbot
Wikipedia editing bot run by Tawker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia editing bot run by Tawker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by Tawker (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. To stop this bot until restarted by the bot's owner, edit its talk page. If that page is a redirect, edit that original redirecting page, not the target of the redirect. Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it or remove from the approved accounts. |
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Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
Non-administrators can a malfunctioning bot to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
If you need Tawkerbot to do anything, leave me a message @ User talk:Tawkerbot or go down for my bot request form (post on this page)
Tawkerbot is a python wikipediabot from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_the_python_wikipediabot. It will be running subst: on a list of userpages that I have created and checked that have templates without the subst tag.
Until I am certain this bot works properly, I will be using it in manual per record control, after I am happy that it will not cause harm to Wikipedia, I will set it on auto mode to go through its list. For every new edit, I run the first few manually then hand it over to computer control, much faster, doing it all manually is too much like doing it myself.
The bot will be started manually by myself when I have a list of user pages that need the changes. I will run the bot every 10-45 seconds (5s in non peak hours if low traffic and cleared on wikipedia-tech and/or mediawiki IRC channels)
The following users have helped with some portion of Tawkerbot be it custom scripts, regex's or monitoring:
This bot runs on my server in a datacenter not on my local ISP connection. As such, my local connection may go down preventing me from accessing the server to issue a stop request. If you have a problem with Tawkerbot and I don't respond within a reasonable amount of time please go ahead and apply a block - a block will stop it, I will make a request on the IRC channel to have it lifted when I have access and it's sorted out (this may or may not happen with a note beforehand, you'll usually get a "Thanks" message though :) -- Tawker 01:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Blanking stale IP talk pages per consensus reached on IRC (#wikipedia / #mediawiki / #wikipedia-en-vandalism / Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#IP_talk_pages on pages older than 180 days. This will not remove sharedip or blockedproxy notices.
Rename {{ArtificialLightSources}} to {{LightSources}} per material contained, and then fix the redirects. 68.39.174.238 22:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm subst'ing in commonly used templates in user talk pages, grabbing a list from AWB and importing for manual control, see the above list for instructions.
Working on....
Here is a bunch of regex strings I use with tawkerbot, feel free to add a useful regex to the bottom of the list, just document the fact please :)
Hey Tawker. Per our discussion on IRC, this is a regex pattern that will match most or all test templates. Specifically, it matches selftest, test-n, test2-n, test2a, test2a-n, test2b, test3-n, test4a, test4-n, test, test0, test1, test2, test2a, test3, test4, test5, and test6, and takes into account the use of deprecated syntax {{msg:test}} and {{template:test}}. It also matches any parameter or parameters. It won't match similar templates that might be subst-averse.
Search:
Replace:
Welcome "{{(.*?welcome.*?)}}" and change to "{{subst:\1}}" '''Anon''' "{{(.*?anon.*?)}}" and change to "{{subst:\1}}"
reason Subst'ing mesgs per WP:SUBST using User:Pathoschild/Projects/Template_substitution's regex Pathoschild's master regex
Search:
Replace:
Job was run on IRC with no concerns, running....
Name: substing of {{FeaturedPicture}}
Purpose: reduce server load
What do you need done: substitution of {{FeaturedPicture}}
Consensus of community for operation (wikilink showing support): generally accepted consensus to substitute templates as needed if they are for all intents and purposes never removed or modified.
Your name: Pegasus1138Talk | Contribs | Email ----
The bot would leave a friendly message on an fair use image uploader's talk page to kindly leave a fair use rationale for the image.
It would essentially
I haven't seen anything that does it specifically and it might get us a little more than the 0.5% of images with fair use rationales. -- Tawker 15:47, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
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