User:Wherebot

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This user account is a bot operated by Where. 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.

Wherebot aims to tag newly created articles that are copyvios with {{db-copyvio}}. It is written in perl, and utilizes Net::IRC, Yahoo's search API, wget, and replace.py (from pywikipediabot).

It is currently editing Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations.

A (probably old) version of the code is available here under the GPL. If you want the latest version, feel free to ask me.

[edit] Barnstars

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I award this barnstar to Wherebot (and thru proxy Where) for helping ensure Wikipedia finds copyright violations before they become a problem and undertaking the tedious work that many of us do not wish to do. Tawker 22:43, 28 December 2006 (UTC)