User talk:Syrcatbot

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This user account facilitates a bot operated by Wikipedia administrator Syrthiss.

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.

Syrcatbot is an account maintained by User:Syrthiss. It operates only on the english wikipedia, using AutoWikiBrowser to do recategorizations in support of Categories for Deletion. Syrcatbot is entirely supervised, as I am the one hitting the button to do the cut and paste for the categories.

I wanted to begin using Syrcatbot for several reasons:

  1. I've been doing a ton of recategorizations with my Syrthiss account, and I feel that clutters up my contributions list.
  2. I can set my preferences with Syrcatbot so that I don't load images (to reduce server resources)
  3. With a bot flag, all my recategorizations won't show up in Special:Recentchanges
  4. I don't run the risk of my main account being blocked for editing at bot-like speeds. While Syrthiss is an admin account and I could unblock myself, I'd rather avoid having to unblock myself or ask another admin to do so.

NOTE - Please leave me messages at User talk:Syrthiss. Leaving me a message here crashes my bot, tho that may be useful if you can't get my attention as Syrthiss and the bot is going insane. Thanks! Syrcatbot 17:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This is a automated to all bot operators

Please take a few moments and fill in the data for your bot on Wikipedia:Bots/Status Thank you Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automated message to bot owners

As a result of discussion on the village pump and mailing list, bots are now allowed to edit up to 15 times per minute. The following is the new text regarding bot edit rates from Wikipedia:Bot Policy:

Until new bots are accepted they should wait 30-60 seconds between edits, so as to not clog the recent changes list and user watchlists. After being accepted and a bureaucrat has marked them as a bot, they can edit at a much faster pace. Bots doing non-urgent tasks should edit approximately once every ten seconds, while bots who would benefit from faster editing may edit approximately once every every four seconds.

Also, to eliminate the need to spam the bot talk pages, please add Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard to your watchlist. Future messages which affect bot owners will be posted there. Thank you. --Mets501 05:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)