User:Uncle G's 'bot
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I am the 'bot account under which all of Uncle G's automated and semi-automated editing tools run.
I am not currently flagged as a 'bot. Until some editing tools go into production use, all of my edits are intentionally subject to the usual scrutiny of edits made by pseudonymous users.
The tools are written in C++, cmd.exe script, and REXX. No, they are not currently available to others.
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Editing tools in development [edit]
These are the tools currently in development. They are not in active production use. Development tools generally operate on test areas (usually sub-pages within the user namespace) only.
Editing tools in production use [edit]
These are the tools currently in production use. Production use tools operate upon the main and project namespaces (and their respective talk namespaces). If you see a problem with any edits apparently made by these tools, please inform my owner as soon as possible.
SANDBOT.btm [edit]
SANDBOT is a fully-automatic tool, scheduled to run at most once per day at approximately 00:05 UTC (give or take clock skew). SANDBOT does not re-try upon failure. Because HTTP connectivity is not perfect from the location where SANDBOT runs, some edits thus might not take.
SANDBOT performs the following tasks:
- It resets Wikinews:Sandbox.
- It resets Wikinews talk:Sandbox.
NEWPAGESBOT.btm [edit]
NEWPAGESBOT is a fully-automatic tool, scheduled to run at most once per day at approximately 00:05 UTC (give or take clock skew). NEWPAGESBOT does not re-try upon failure. Because HTTP connectivity is not perfect from the location where NEWPAGESBOT runs, some edits thus might not take.
NEWPAGESBOT performs the following tasks:
- It replaces Template:New page with an updated version that uses the current date. It creates the page using {{subst:New page/default}} to create everything below the dateline, allowing the content below the dateline to be changed by editing Template:New page/default.
- It creates a new day page, of the form Wikinews:Year/Month/Day containing a dynamic page list.
