User:RefDeskBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Martinp23 (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.

RefDeskBot RDB Deskmaster Mark-1 is currently hard at work archiving the help desk and the reference desk. It is written in C♯ and wishes you an efficient day. Emergency bot shutoff button Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. •

[edit] What it does

First, it gets all the questions from the day before yesterday (this is at 0:00Z ish) and adds them to a daily archive page. It then grabs the section titles from this page and adds them to the monthly listing: like this, before transcluding the archive page onto the desk, and adding the date header at the bottom of the page.