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If you have a requst for one of the below approved tasks to be run, please let User:T-rex know...

Approved tasks

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  • Template Redirection Removal
    Function - Removes double redirects from templates (see request)
    Approval - Approved
    Operation - manually started for each catagory of templates
    Edit Speed - approximately 1 per minute (guaranteed to be under four per minute)
    Language - C#
    Where - wherever needed/wherever requested
    Details - it resolves all redirects from all templates in a given category, and all sub categories.
    Requests to run this bot on a given set of templates should be left at User talk:T-rex
  • Template Substitution
    Function - Subst's templates
    Approval - Approved
    Operation - once a week, fully automatic
    Edit Speed - about 6 per minute
    Language - C#
    Where - everywhere
    Details - it subst's templates that should be subseted
    Requests to subst additional templates with this bot should be left at User talk:T-rex
  • HTML Conversion
    Function - Removes html tags from articles (like <b> ), and replaces them with wiki-markup (like ' ' ' )
    Approval - Approved
    Operation - automatic
    Edit Speed - max speed of 3 edits per minute, average speed is unknown
    Language - C#
    Where - to be run primarily on the wikify catagories
    Details - converts tags for <b> <i> <em> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6>
    Similar to what I was previously running at DinoBot
    also handles <a href="example.com">link text</a> as a special case
    Ignores all articles with nowiki tags, to avoid where this change may be unwanted
  • Crosslinking Categories
    Function - links categories to related categories (see request)
    Approval - Approved
    Operation - automatic
    Edit Speed - fast
    Language - C#
    Where - within the Category namespace
    Details - Finds Album and Song categories for the same artist within Category:Albums by artist and Category:Songs by artist
    Finds matches that do not already link to each other and add link to both using {{Cat see also}}
    This will only have a one time run
  • Upgrading from deprecated template
    Function - Upgrades articles from the deprecated {{Rating-5}} and {{Rating-10}} to {{Rating}}
    Approval - Approved
    Operation - automatic
    Edit Speed - 6 per min
    Language - C#
    Where - Articles currently using {{Rating-5}} and {{Rating-10}}
    Details - Replaces the deprecated {{Rating-5}} and {{Rating-10}} templates with the more flexible {{Rating}} template
    This will initially have only a one time run

Proposed tasks

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  • Sandbox Header
    Function - restores the header on the sandbox
    Approval - no (withdrawn)
    Operation - automatic/semi-continuous
    Edit Speed - once every 90 seconds
    Language - C#
    Where - Wikipedia:Sandbox
    Details - SoxBot has been restored making this task unneeded

Tasks under development

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  • Image duplication
    Function - finds duplicate images and nominates them for deletion (request)
    Approval - not yet
    Operation - unknown
    Edit Speed - unknown
    Language - C#
    Where - image namespace
    Details - per this request
    identify dupes using Multichill's tools (possibly replace with my own or another tool)
    confirm that the images are "bit-for-bit identical copies"
    move all links and image transclutions to a single image.
    mark second image as a duplicate for deletion
    notify uploader of about to be deleted image