Bot Related Stuff
Check out this category for a list of all bots running on the wiki.
Active Bots
These bots are currently complete and will update the wiki from time to time, whenever they are run.
Any problems with these bots? Drop a line at my talk page.
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Mobile Phone Mast
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MobilePhoneMastBot
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| Status
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Active
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| Update Record
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Located Here
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| Pages Updated
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Mobile Phone Mast, 100 danger reports (for buildings containing masts)
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| Current Major Iteration
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2nd
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| Functions
This bot is used to ensure that the information display on the Mobile Phone Mast page is accurate. When a danger report is updated with a new mast status, that status should be set to an 'old' variant after 5 days total, and 'unknown' after ten days total. The bot checks the reports based on the timestamp in the user line and changes the mast status as needed. It updates the Mobile Phone Mast page with the true network coverage as given by the Urban Dead Stats Page and the mapped network coverage as given by masts specified as active in danger reports.
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Scenteral Intelligence Map
External Military Report Page
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ExternalMilitaryReportBot
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Active. Upgrade likely in the future.
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| Update Record
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Located Here
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EMRP: Reports to Process, 100 EMRP pages, 100 EMRP talk pages.
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| Current Major Iteration
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1st
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The bot takes EMRs posted on EMRP: Reports to Process and then sorts them into their correct locations. It updates the EMRP page for the suburb in each report by looking at certain phrases within the report itself. It then posts a copy of the report in the EMRP talk page for the suburb for archive purposes. It then updates EMRP: Reports to Process accordingly to let users know the reports have been dealt with.
Possible Future Upgrade: Update danger reports for buildings mentioned in reports automatically. Update suburb statuses based on reported conditions, if the user permits.
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Manual Editing-Assist Bots
These bots are designed to help me perform bulky manual edits, they are usually' Run Once' type programs.
These bots tended to run through my account, any and all new bots of this type are likely to be run through the (yet to be created) BulkUpdatesBot (BUB) account to preserve separation of user and bots.
Quick Updates Bot
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The Rooster
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Active Manual-Editing Assistant
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A handy tool that I adjust on the fly to my needs. I feed it a page or list of pages, a handful of code that deals with how the page needs to be changed (Usually no more than adding a few lines, or maybe a complete replace of text) and it runs through the list. Simply, fast and mostly effective. This bot is for generally small jobs (usually no more than 100 edits).
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BIC Standards Bot
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The Rooster
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Manual-Editing Assistant, soon to be reinstated, recoded and rerun under the BUB account.
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Original Run: This bot standardises Danger Reports. I've run for three major edit-streaks. The first time it went through everything and fixed it all, a few errors here and there which I didn't notice with my manual checking but nothing major. The second time it was solely to fix categories for Office Building and NT's by removing the word 'The' in the Building Danger Levels sort key. The third time it rolled out a new standard and also created a handful of mobile phone mast pages that needed creating. It managed to make a half-major screw up on some of the existing mast reports but these have since been fixed. I estimate that roughly 1500 of my edits are due to this thing, that certainly wasn't my intention.
I'm burying this bot under a foot of soil. Let's hope it never need be run again.
Run Two: After some months, many more reports have been made. A new template for ambiguous buildings has been made and needs to be used. The bot needs to re-run in order to make sure everything is standard and ready so that coding of the BIC Updater Bot can progress.
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Disambiguation Bot
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The Rooster
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Retired Manual-Editing Assistant
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This bot targeted pages using the LocationBlock or LocationBlockMerge templates that link to other building's with ambiguous links that meant you ended up at a disambiguation page. After some 3200 edits, it's job has been completed. Anything that did escape will likely get corrected manually anyway. Pages linking to disambiguation pages were down to just 1700 after this bot finished running.
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Design Phase
Bots currently still being designed.
BIC Danger Report Updater
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To be determined, likely a seperate account.
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Design Phase
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There are lots of subpages to the Danger Reports, this means that often they can go out of date without people ever noticing. Information is no real use if it's more than a month old, and is still questionable at less than a week or two since the last update. I'm attempting to create a bot that will update anything over a month old with an unknown status. There are over 1000 pages to check, and they will be re-standardized before any editing runs are made. Hopefully this bot can tackle most of them.
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Ideas for Bots
These are bots I haven't even entered one line of code for, but might be useful.
Co-ordinates Bot
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To be determined, likely through the BUB account.
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Drawing Board
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This bot would set up all the redirects that should exist for co-ordinates. EG: You type in 52,54 into the search box and get sent to that building. Some already exist, but many do not.
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The Scrapheap
Anything that was considered, but not expanded upon.
Revivification Point Bot
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Would've probably been a seperate account.
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Scrapped at Design Phase
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| Possible Functions
This bot would deal with the timekeeping on the List of Revivification Points page by marking points as outdated where required.
Scrapped due to the lengthy times between required edits, manual editing will suffice for the page in question.
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Locations Unmerger Bot
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Would've probably been through the BUB account.
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Scrapped at Drawing Board
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This bot would unmerge collections of locations. (EG: Dulston Pubs) and seperate them into individual location pages.
Scrapped due to extremely negative reception, manual unmerging seems to be fine anyway.
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