User:Jmax-bot

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This bot is defunct, as it was lost in a hard drive malfunction

This user account is a bot operated by Jmax- (talk). It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

This is a bot run by User:Jmax-, written in Perl using WWW::Mechanize and a custom framework. It works automatically, but is issued commands manually.

[edit] Tasks (Current)

[edit] Tasks (Historic)

• Featured article counting. Once per hour it sums up the number of featured articles and updates User:Jmax-bot/FACount.js. The bot is approved for this task. A debug page is generated at User:Jmax-bot/FACounter.

• Former featured article counting. Once per hour it sums up the number of featured articles and updates User:Jmax-bot/FFACount.js. The bot is approved for this task. It outputs a debug page at User:Jmax-bot/FFACounter.

[edit] Notes

• Commas may be added to the generated numbers with the 'formatnum:' magic word, i.e. {{formatnum: {{User:Jmax-bot/FACount.js}}}} turns the output 1334 into 1,334.

• .js user subpages may be edited only by the owner of the account and administrators. In the event of a bot malfunction, administrators should fully protect the subpage and revert to the last good version.

• A whitelist system is in place to prevent possible vandalism. A list of current whitelisted users can be found on the appropriate debug pages. To request to become a whitelisted user, please have a currently whitelisted user sponsor you and have them leave me a message.