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Contents 1 Tools 2 Tasks 2.1 Current tasks 2.2 Recurrent tasks 2.3 Task queue 2.4 Completed tasks 3 Abandoned tasks 4 Approval status for various tasks

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Per the Userbox migration, {{User perl-N}} was moved to {{User:Quasar Jarosz/Userboxes/Perl-N}}
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[edit] Tools

I use Firefox and WP:AWB at the moment. I also use perl to scan database downloads. If requested I will prepare lists of articles for other users when I can. Where possible SmackBot will avoid pages with the {{nobots}} tag.

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Current tasks

[edit] Recurrent tasks

1. Correct "External link" to "External links".
2. Correct "Reference" to "References".
3. Correct "ISBN:" to "ISBN" to allow wikimagic to prevail.
   • Other minor improvements to layout of ISBN numbers to allow wikimagic to prevail.
   • (Insert correct hyphenation of ISBNs, label articles with invalid ISBNs (too short, too long, lang code, pub code undefined)).
   • Check check digit, categorise articles with invalid ISBNs.
   • Convert to 13 digit code (standard from 2007) see ISBN (currently paused)
4. Add a date to the maintenance tags which put articles in sub-categories of sorted by month - currently (as of February 2007):

• {{wikify}}
• {{orphan}}
• {{uncat}}
• {{uncatstub}}
• {{cleanup}}
• {{unreferenced}}
• {{importance}}
• {{expand}}
• {{merge}}
• {{copyedit}}
• {{fact}}

and their synonyms and near-synonyms. (This should be exhaustive -i.e all occurences should be dated.)

Also dating cleanup tags which put articles in categories planned to be sub-categories of sorted by month - currently (as of February 2007):

• {{not verified}}

and its synonyms and near-synonyms. (This process starts with pages being visited for another reason, and only later becomes exhaustive.)

[edit] Task queue

1. Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - work on common errors.

   Most common 245 done once. - will probably become a recurring task

2. Change cleanup to disambig-cleanup in disambig pages. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot approval XI

[edit] Completed tasks

1. U.S. 2000 census articles into past tense.
2. Initial runs of recurrent tasks
3. Moved Saint Louis categories to St. Louis, and corrected links.
4. Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - Most common 15 done.
5. Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - second most common batch c. 230.
6. UK links direct to United Kingdom. Nazi to Nazism.
7. Pipe US to United States replace with U.S.
8. Replace/pipe link Academy Award with Academy Awards
9. In days of the year replace first occurrence of date with templated link, completed manually.
10. More Fix-ups in US Census articles.
11. Remove spurious links to months of year and days of week.
12. Labeled all bad checksum ISBNs.
13. Renamed "invalid isbn" template "please check ISBN".
14. Modified Swiss geog. articles census field to avoid deprecated "as of month year" links.
15. Tidied up album articles (note there is a manual phase which is still going on).

[edit] Abandoned tasks

1. Fix section headers and templates in Pokemon arts.

   Not started. Probably been done by someone else by now.

2. Clean up piped links

   Stopped probably permanently. Might roll into other tasks.

[edit] Approval status for various tasks

• Using AWB notified 5 March 2006 here..
• As of 10:33, 26 March 2006 (UTC) a request for withdrawing approval from this bot was running at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Archive2#SmackBot_and_AWB_operated_by_Rich_Farmbrough
  • As a result the flag was voluntarily relinquished, and regained through a new process (see above).
• Approval request for recurrent task 1. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Archive2#SmackBot task approval Approved.
• Approval request for recurrent task 2. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Archive2#SmackBot task approval II Approved.
• Approval request for recurrent task 3. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Archive2#SmackBot task approval III Approved.
• Approval request for one-off task 10. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Archive3#SmackBot task approval IV Approved.
• Approval request for one-off task 11. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Archive3#SmackBot task approval V Approved.
• Approval request for recurrent task 3a. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval#SmackBot Task Approval VI Approved [1].
• Approval request for recurrent task 3b and 3c. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 7and8 Approved.
• Approval request for one off tasks 13 and 14 requests IX and X.
• Note, when Smackbot is using AWB, some of the general fixes options will usually be turned on, to get the most value from the edits. Hence most edit summaries say "and/or general fixes". Again usually, the motivating change will be made or none at all.