User:AtyndallBot
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This user account is a bot operated by Atyndall (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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AtyndallBot  |
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| AtyndallBot (Talk · Contribs) | |
| Operator: | Atyndall |
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| Author | Atyndall |
| Approved? | N/A, currently being created |
| Task/s: | See below |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
| Programming language/s: | PHP |
| Source code published? | Robot is currently not completed, but pseudocode is available here |
I decided to created AtyndallBot when I noticed the enormous backlog in Category:All images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons and thought that a bot would be good to assess and delete appropriate images.
I then discovered that MetsBot already has a monopoly on the assessment function (that was disheartening) and because I am a non-admin my bot would not be granted the required +sysop flag to allow image deletion.
I was planning to write a function into the bot the automatically migrates images from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons when appropriate but I asked the bot approval group if a bot is currently doing that already, and one is.
I'm still deciding what the bot will do but I do know a few things about it:
The bot will be written in PHP and will, hopefully, be run off the Toolserver. I do have intermediate understanding of how PHP works but will probably take several months to write the bot to a good standard.
