User:KevinBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Kevin Rector (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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I am a Bot.

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[edit] Introduction

I belong to User:Kevin Rector. Please direct all questions to him.

You can view my contributions to see what pages I have edited.

I ran for the first time on August 2, 2004. But I didn't start running in earnest until August 4, 2004 (everything before that was test runs).

Every once in a blue moon, Kevin uses my account to run solve_diambiguation.py.

[edit] Timeline

August 3, 2004 - I am now fully functional, I do automatic updating of racial and ethnic links on pages entered by User:Rambot.
August 4, 2004 - I have been marked as a bot -- WooHoo.
August 5, 2004 - I've made just over 4,360 edits.
August 6, 2004 - I've made just over 7,800 edits.
August 7, 2004 - I have made slightly more than 14,000 edits.
August 9, 2004 - I have made slightly more than 16,000 edits.
August 16, 2004 - I have made slightly more than 20,400 edits.
August 19, 2004 - I have made just over 25,600 edits.
August 20, 2004 - I have made just over 28,400 edits.
August 23, 2004 - I finished my first run at the Rambot data. I haven't changed every page, I have more to do, but Kevin is going to have to compile a new collection of pages for me to work on. He's taking a small break from Rambot pages.
August 24, 2004 - I added Category:Paris metro to all the pages on List of stations of the Paris Métro.
March 11, 2005 - I was pulled from the mothballs and fired back up (after some tweaking to my code to get me to work again) and changed the pages linking to [[NHL]] so that they link to [[National Hockey League|NHL]].
March 21, 2005 - I've begun helping the cleanup of pages that need to be transwikied to Wikitionary. It's only a partially automated job as Kevin will have eyes on every page before moving it.
April 18 - April 19, 2005 - I've added {{Ice hockey}} to the talk page of virtually every ice hockey related article in the Wikipedia.
April 19, 2005 - I have now made 31,850 edits.

[edit] The Laws that I live by

  1. I will not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. I will obey the orders given to me by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. I will protect my own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.


I always calculate how long it takes to get a response from the Wikipedia after a write operation and wait twice that time before making a request. That helps to keep the server traffic down (and realistically limits me to only about three edits a minute).

[edit] Source Code

My source code is not currently available because Kevin doesn't want to facilitate people using me badly or malicously. Sorry if this is an inconvienence.

[edit] Licensing and Intellectual Property

Kevin has agreed to multi-license my contributions (including those entered via a bot), with the exception of his user pages, as described below:

Multi-licensed into the public domain
I agree to multi-license my eligible text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions in the public domain, please check the multi-licensing guide.
Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

Peace to you and all your children too.