User:NedBot
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This user account is a bot operated by Ned Scott (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] Bot description
Description of the bot (per Wikipedia:Bots):
- The bot is run manually
- You can expect it to be run a few times a month for about 2 to 3 hours at a time.
- The bot is written in Python, using pywikipedia
- Ned Scott maintains this bot.
- Full description of what this bot does is listed below.
[edit] Bot tasks
The main tasks for this bot is to assist in redundant edits for WikiProject Digimon Systems Update and WikiProject List of Television Episodes. Such tasks may include:
- Basic text replacement
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- For example, going through articles in Category:Digimon and finding common mistakes specific to digimon articles, such as proper placement of English and Japanese terms and names
- Updating links
- Category maintenance
- Template maintenance, such as going through articles and renaming a template parameter or adding one
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- I try to avoid these changes in the first place, as it sort of defeats the purpose of a template to have to re-edit all the articles using the template
