User:SelketBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Selket (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.

To check if SelketBot is running look for the user Selket in #en.wikipedia on irc.wikimedia.org. If SelketBot is not running, you can notify its operator at User talk:Selket.


Emergency robot shutoff button


Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)

Non-administrators can report misbehaving bots to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

SelketBot moves pages from categories marked with {{categoryredirect}} to the correct category. This task was approved on 2007-04-22. A partial run -- covering the most frequently used category redirects -- occurs every six hours. A full run occurs once daily. The log from the most recent run of this task is at /CatLog with older runs available in the history.


 Selketbot -- helping to minimalize vandalism from School and Shared IP addresses.

I, Real96 hereby give my stamp of approval for Selketbot, a bot which helps minimalize collateral damage as well as save time for many Wikipedia users. Many Wikipedian users and administrators such as Luna Santin and Ryulong attend college and are Wikienthusiasts. Vandalism, from another user on the college servers, (which leads to a block), slows down the connection for the people who edit at the particular colleges/schools. In some cases, some established users can't log-in, because another person on our server vandalized Wikipedia. With Selketbot, me and other users on recent changes patrol don't have to worry about the shared IP's modus operandi and administrators can determine the correct duration of blockage that the IP needs to have. Another plus of Selketbot is that the bot places the location of the School IP so that Wikipedia administrators can contact the proper authorities in order to lessen the amount of vandalism. Thanks to people like Selket, we Wikipedians can all edit in collective harmony and not worry about suspected IP addresses.

Respectfully signed,

Real96 17:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)