Operator: GoingBatty ( talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)
Time filed: 01:33, Tuesday February 19, 2013 ( UTC)
Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic
Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser
Source code available: AWB
Function overview: Create new sockpuppet categories
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 53#Simple category creator
Edit period(s): Weekly runs
Estimated number of pages affected: about 200 during the first run, then a couple per week
Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes
Function details:
Example category created: Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Paliku
\b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b
, it's named after an IP address, and shouldn't be created. If it was named after an account,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers shows you how to find the members of the category, and if any of those members aren't an IP address, create it.—
Kww(
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22:13, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
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Withdrawn by operator. - The requirements have changed since I filed the bot request, and my technical skills are not sophisticated enough to handle them. I hope another bot operator will pick up this task instead.
GoingBatty (
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01:42, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
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