Current tasks
- Needs consolidating somehow with ... completed list.
- Insert {{Start date}} and {{End date}} into instantiations of various templates. Approved here
- Replace Geobox XXX with Geobox
Recurrent tasks
| Extended content
|
- Note:due to an MS operating system failure task 3 is on hold.
- Correct "External link" to "External links".
- Correct "Reference" to "References".
- Correct "ISBN:" to "ISBN" to allow wikimagic to prevail.
- Other minor improvements to layout of ISBN to allow wikimagic to prevail.
- (Insert correct hyphenation of ISBNs, label articles with invalid ISBNs (too short, too long, lang code, pub code undefined)).
- Check check digit, categorise articles with invalid ISBNs.
- Convert to 13 digit code (standard from 2007) see ISBN (currently paused)
- Add a date to the maintenance tags which put articles in sub-categories or planned sub-categories of sorted by month - mainly:
-
- and their synonyms and near-synonyms - something over 490 templates and 1900 redirects. (This should be exhaustive for those which are not merely planned -i.e all occurrences should be dated.)
- At the same time SB corrects mis-spellings, mis-entry and mis-formatting of the date parameter and other template features where it can.
- Replace tags {{disambig}} and {{cleanup}} with {{disambig-cleanup}}.
- Replace birth dates and death dates in Infoboxen with {{birth date}}, {{death date}}, {{birth date and age}} or {{death date and age}} as appropriate.
- Add defaultsort to people-stubs so they are listed correctly
- Add references section and appropriate mark of to articles with "ref" footnotes and no such mark up.
- Unlink days of week and month names.
- Remove ":" from redirects.
- Replace start dates and end dates in Infoboxen with {{Start date}} etc as appropriate.
|
Task queue
- Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - work on common errors.
- Most common 245 done once. - will probably become a recurring task
- Many now built into AWB as part of "General fixes".
- Now "smarter" version that deals with many hundreds of of common errors.
Completed tasks
| Extended content
|
- U.S. 2000 census articles into past tense.
- Initial runs of recurrent tasks
- Moved Saint Louis categories to St. Louis, and corrected links.
- Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - Most common 15 done.
- Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - second most common batch c. 230.
- UK links direct to United Kingdom. Nazi to Nazism.
- Pipe US to United States replace with U.S.
- Replace/pipe link Academy Award with Academy Awards
- In days of the year replace first occurrence of date with templated link, completed manually.
- More Fix-ups in US Census articles.
- Remove spurious links to months of year and days of week.
- Labelled all bad checksum ISBNs. (Needs doing again.)
- Renamed "invalid isbn" template "please check ISBN".
- Modified Swiss geog. articles census field to avoid deprecated "as of month year" links.
- Tidied up album articles (note there is a manual phase which is still going on).
- Replace Erik9Bot category with appropriate unref tag.
|
Known bugs
- See also Misplaced Pages talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs
Abandoned tasks (2)
| Extended content
|
- Fix section headers and templates in Pokémon articles.
- Not started. Probably been done by someone else by now.
- Clean up piped links
- Stopped probably permanently. Might roll into other tasks.
- Now built into AutoWikiBrowser as part of "General fixes"
|
Approval status for various tasks
| Extended content
|
- Using AWB notified 5 March 2006 here.
- On 26 March 2006 a request for withdrawing approval from this bot was made here.
- As a result the flag was voluntarily relinquished, and regained through a new process (see above).
- Approval request for recurrent task 1. Request I. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 2. Request II. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 3. Request III. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task 10. Request IV. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task 11. Request V. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 3a. Request VI. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 3b and 3c. Requests VII and VIII. Approved.
- Approval request for one off tasks 13 and 14. Requests IX and X. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task 15. Request XI(a). Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 4. Request XI(b). Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 5. Request XI(c). Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 6. Request XII. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 7. Request XIII. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 8. Request XIV. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 11. Request XV. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 10. Request XVI. Approved.
- Approval request for recurrent task 12. Request XVII. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task 13. Request XVIII. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task 14. Request XIX. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task 15. Request XX. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task 16. Request XXI. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task 17. Request XXII. Withdrawn (task already completed).
- Approval request for one off task. Request XXIII. Withdrawn (task already completed).
- Approval request for repetitive task. Request XXIV. Expired.
- Approval request for one off task. Request XXV. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task. Request XXVI. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task. Request XXVII. Missing.
- Approval request for repetitive task. Request XXVIII. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task. Request XXIX. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task. Request XXX. Approved.
- Approval request for one off task. Request XXXI. Approved.
|
Note: When Smackbot is using AWB, some of the general fixes options will usually be turned on, to get the most value from the edits. Hence most edit summaries say "and/or general fixes". Again usually, the motivating change will be made or none at all.
|
