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Approved tasks
- Template Redirection Removal
- Function - Removes double redirects from templates (see request)
- Approval - Approved
- Operation - manually started for each catagory of templates
- Edit Speed - approximately 1 per minute (guaranteed to be under four per minute)
- Program - C#
- Where - wherever needed/wherever requested
- Details - it resolves all redirects from all templates in a given category, and all sub categories.
- Requests to run this bot on a given set of templates should be left at User talk:T-rex
- Template Substitution
- Function - Subst's templates
- Approval - Approved
- Operation - once a week, fully automatic
- Edit Speed - unknown
- Program - C#
- Where - everywhere
- Details - it subst's templates that should be subseted
- Requests to subst additional templates with this bot should be left at User talk:T-rex
- HTML Conversion
- Function - Removes html tags from articles (like <b> ), and replaces them with wiki-markup (like ' ' ' )
- Approval - pending
- Operation - automatic
- Edit Speed - max speed of 3 edits per minute, average speed is unknown
- Program - C#
- Where - to be run primarily on the wikify catagories
- Details - converts tags for <b> <i> <em> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6>
- Similar to what I was previously running at DinoBot
- also handles
<a href="example.com">link text</a>as a special case - Ignores all articles with nowiki tags, to avoid where this change is unwanted
Tasks under development
- Image duplication
- Function - finds duplicate images and nominates them for deletion (request)
- Approval - not yet
- Operation - unknown
- Edit Speed - unknown
- Program - C#
- Where - image namespace
- Details - per this request
- identify dupes using Multichill's tools (possibly replace with my own or another tool)
- confirm that the images are "bit-for-bit identical copies"
- move all links and image transclutions to a single image.
- mark second image as a duplicate for deletion
- notify uploader of about to be deleted image
It has been approved for use, while further tasks are still being developed.