User:RussBot

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This user account is a bot operated by R'n'B (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.
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Pursuant to the policies enumerated at WP:BOTS, the following information is provided for the edification of the Wikipedia community:

Describe the bot's purpose, language it uses, what program(s) it uses (pywikipedia framework, etc)

The bot uses Python and the pywikipedia bot framework. It currently has three areas of operation, as follows:

I use it to bypass links to disambiguation pages. Edits made for this purpose are identified as "Robot-assisted", because the bot only identifies links that may need to be bypassed and presents a menu of options to the human operator (me). No link is changed unless the human operator selects it manually, so please do not leave messages on my Talk page suggesting that the bot has run amok because you don't agree with a particular link change. You may disagree with my judgment, which is all part of the process of achieving consensus, but at least realize that it is an issue of judgment and not an error in programming a bot. (Yes, I do occasionally hit the wrong key and foul up a link, but I try to be diligent about correcting those quickly.)
I use it to fix double redirects. This process requires less human judgment; typically, if page [[Foo]] is a redirect to [[Bar]] and [[Bar]] is a redirect to [[Baz]], the bot can automatically bypass this and point [[Foo]] directly to [[Baz]]. However, there are exceptions, usually when one or the other of the redirects includes a redirect template. In these cases, human intervention is needed to decide how to resolve the redirect. Therefore, this aspect of the bot runs only under manual supervision.
I use it to update the lists of disambiguation pages on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages maintenance and Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/problems. This operation is the only one for this bot that is completely automated.

Describe whether it is manually assisted or automatically scheduled to run

As described above, all bot operations except for (3) are manually assisted. The disambiguation page maintenance script is automatically scheduled.

The period, if any, we should expect it to run

The manually assisted functions are run whenever it is convenient for me. The disambiguation maintenance script runs once per week, usually early Sunday morning (U.S. time).