User:BirthdayBot
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This user account is a bot operated by ST47 (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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[edit] General
BirthdayBot is a Wikipedia bot run by Extranet that primarily uses perl to do a number of tedious tasks at a faster rate than a human editor. The bot checks the calendar of birthdays for the current day, and sends either a birthday template, a first edit day template, or adminship anniversary template to that user's userpage. It will most likely be run on the m:Toolserver.
[edit] Running
The bot will be run temporarily by ST47 until Extranet gets a permanent toolserver account to run it.
[edit] Tasks
- Checks the calendar of birthdays for the current day.
- Sends either a birthday template, a first edit day template, or adminship anniversary template to that user's userpage.
[edit] Emergencies
If the bot seems to be malfunctioning, please block it. This will give both ST47 and Extranet time to diagnose/fix the problem.
