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This user account is a bot operated by Alanbly (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.
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BannerBot is a bot built to seek out articles which have recently added the {{WPSchools}} template and catalogue them. Ideally, this bot will be made more general so that any assessment template could use it.
[edit] Basic Operation
- This bot will use the "What Links here" for {{WPSchools}}
- It will record all tranclusions and check them against it's previous record.
- It will then print the names/links of each new article to a log page for human viewing
[edit] Vital Statistics
- Run on Mac OS-X (Intel)
- Will be Written in Python
- Using modified pywikipediabot framework
- To be run under indirrect supervision by Adam McCormick at the request of Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools and its departments
- Bot is automatic, but is run manually
- Written, Run, Maintained, and Housed by Adam McCormick
