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rough notes
OlEnglish asked, "Is there a list of, or discussion somewhere on what will become of Cluebot III tasks or any other bot tasks and/or templates that will become deprecated once WP:Flow is fully rolled out?
We will be discussing API for bots at Zürich_Hackathon in May 2014
Further notes at Talk:Flow/Architecture/API/Archive 2014#enwiki bots that edit talk pages
Enwiki Talkpage bots
[edit]| Bot | Operator(s) | Task(s) | Usertalk tasks | library (or languages) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| w:User:ClueBot NG | w:User:Cobi w:User:Crispy1989 w:User:methecooldude | Reverting vandalism | C, C++, PHP, Python, Bash, and Java | |
| w:User:HasteurBot | w:User:Hasteur | (AFC only) | -- | pywikibot (?) |
| w:User:Lowercase sigmabot III | w:User:Σ | Archive talkpages | -- | python (ceterach) |
| w:User:SineBot | w:User:Slakr | Signing comments | -- | php |
| w:User:AnomieBOT | w:User:Anomie | Articletalk: Adding {old AfD multi} for prior AfDs, Usertalk: Substing templates | usertalk: edit existing content | perl |
| w:User:BracketBot | w:User:A930913 | informs editors of potentially broken markup | new topic | python |
| w:User:DPL bot | w:User:JaGa | Notifies editors of disambiguation links they have added to articles | new topic | php |
| w:User:EdwardsBot | w:User:MZMcBride | deliver messages and newsletters | new topic | python |
| w:User:MediaWiki message delivery | Extension:MassMessage | deliver messages and newsletters | new topic | Extension:MassMessage |
| w:User:Theo's Little Bot | w:User:Theopolisme | Usertalk: Notifying uploaders about file issues/changes | new topic | python |
| w:User:Legobot | w:User:Legoktm | Article and Usertalk: Adding RFC ID, Notify users of GA status | new topic | pywikibot |
| w:User:HostBot | w:User:Jtmorgan | invites new editors to the Teahouse and TWA | new topic | python-wikitools |
| w:User:AvicBot | w:User:Avicennasis | Articletalk: Fixing double redirect | -- | pywikibot, AutoWikiBrowser |
| w:User:ClueBot III | w:User:Cobi | Talk page archival, including link fixing to archived sections | -- | php |
| w:User:LaraBot | w:User:MZMcBride | Warning editors who create unreferenced biographies of living people. | new topic | python-wikitools |
| w:User:DYKUpdateBot | w:User:Shubinator | Giving DYK credit | new topic | java |
| w:User:ReferenceBot | w:User:A930913 | Notice of potential reference breaking | new topic | python |
| w:User:MenoBot and w:User:MenoBot II | w:User:Meno25 | Wikiproject tagging of talk pages | AutoWikiBrowser | |
| w:User:SuggestBot | w:User:Nettrom | Usertalk: Suggest tasks for editors | new topic | python |
| w:User:ImageTaggingBot | w:User:Carnildo | ImageTaggingBot notifies the uploader of any problems it encounters | new topic | perl |
| w:User:Citation bot | w:User:Smith609 | Fixes citation templates | edit existing content | php |
| w:User:Xqbot | w:User:Xqt | Fixing double redirects, Adding missing <references /> tags | Fixing double redirects | pywikibot |
| w:User:Cyberbot II | w:User:Cyberpower678 | Notification of blacklisted links on article talkpages | new topic | php |
| w:User:Scsbot | w:User:scs | archiving of the Wikipedia Reference Desks and the Help desk | -- | sh |
| w:User:MadmanBot | w:User:Madman | Notifying user of possible copyvio | new topic | perl, php |
| w:User:SporkBot | w:User:Plastikspork | ? | perlwikipedia | |
| w:User:RMCD bot | w:User:Wbm1058 | Notifying talk pages that are named in multi-move requests. | php | |
| w:User:UcuchaBot | w:User:Ucucha | Notify nominators of upcoming TFAs, Tag articletalkpages of upcoming TFAs | php | |
| w:User:MediationBot | w:User:Anomie | Inform editors about requests for Mediation in which they're involved | perl | |
| w:User:VoxelBot | w:User:Fox Wilson and w:User:Vacation9 | Notify users whose articles were tagged with {Notability}. | python | |
| w:User:Cyberbot I | w:User:Cyberpower678 | Issuing warning about removing AfD template | php | |
| w:User:EarwigBot | w:User:The Earwig | Notifying user regarding dispute resolution noticeboard case | python | |
| w:User:DumbBOT | w:User:Tizio | removing a protection template from a non-protected page | bash script using sed, awk, grep, and curl | |
| w:User:PeerReviewBot | w:User:CBM | Archiving peer review | Mediawiki::API | |
| w:User:ImageRemovalBot | w:User:Carnildo | Ignores talk namespaces | perl | |
| w:User:Lowercase sigmabot | w:User:Σ | adding/Removing protection templates | python (ceterach) | |
| w:User:RscprinterBot | w:User:Rcsprinter123 | reverting vandalism and test edits from articles, and removing article categories from userspace | AutoWikiBrowser, php | |
| w:User:DYKHousekeepingBot | w:User:Shubinator | Notify editors of Untranscluded DYK nomination | java | |
| w:User:BattyBot | w:User:GoingBatty | ? | AutoWikiBrowser | |
| w:User:RussBot | w:User:R'n'B | (AFC only) | pywikibot | |
| w:User:AnkitAWB | w:User:Ankit Maity | Adding project banner to article talkpage | AutoWikiBrowser | |
| w:User:ProteinBoxBot | w:User:Andrew Su, w:User:Pleiotrope, and w:User:x0xMaximus | Adding project banner to article talkpages | python | |
| w:User:OgreBot | w:User:Magog the Ogre | replacing image or file with commons equivalent | Peachy (php) | |
| w:User:Hazard-Bot | w:User:Hazard-SJ | Wikipedia talk:Sandbox (Robot: Automatically cleaned) | AutoWikiBrowser, python | |
| w:User:Commons fair use upload bot | w:User:Dcoetzee | article talkpage: Bot notice: Fair use candidate from Commons | python, mwclient | |
| w:User:CommonsDelinker | c:User:Siebrand | removes links to files deleted on Wikimedia Commons | php | |
| w:User:Citation bot 2 | w:User:Smith609 | article talkpage: Misc citation tidying | php | |
| w:User:Cydebot | w:User:Cyde Weys | Category talk | pywikibot | |
| w:User:Mathbot | w:User:Oleg Alexandrov | ? | MediaWiki::Bot | |
| w:User:VeblenBot | w:User:CBM | ? | perl, Mediawiki::Bot | |
| w:User:JackieBot | w:User:Jackie | ? | python | |
| w:User:JL-Bot | w:User:JLaTondre | Portal talk: updating recognized content | MediaWiki::Bot | |
| w:User:Bot1058 | w:User:Wbm1058 | ? | AutoWikiBrowser | |
| w:User:Monkbot | w:User:Trappist the monk | ? | AutoWikiBrowser | |
| w:User:MuZebot | w:User:MuZemike | Usertalk: notify whole memberships of WikiProjects (or task forces) on their user talk pages about various announcements and/or dispatches or to help in delivering project newsletters. | AutoWikiBrowser | |
| w:User:Yobot | w:User:Magioladitis | fixes categories and templates (incl talkpages) | AutoWikiBrowser | |
| w:User:VIAFbot (inactive 29 months) | w:User:Maximilianklein | rare talkpage edits - a template fixer | python | |
| w:User:Addbot (inactive 13 months) | w:User:Addshore | Subst talk page templates that should be substed | php | |
| w:User:WelcomerBot (inactive 24 months) | w:User:stwalkerster | ACC welcome bot | Peachy (php) |
Commons Talkpage bots
[edit]| Bot | Operator(s) | Task(s) | Usertalk tasks | library (or languages) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| c:User:FPCBot | c:User:Daniel78 | various Featured Picture Candidate tasks | new topic | pywikibot |