User:CleanupBot

This user account is a bot operated by WikiDwarf (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

Before blocking this bot, please consider disabling the task in question instead (see #Emergency shutoff). If you want to block it anyway, the button to the left will do what you want.

Documentation

Technical details

CleanupBot is written in Python, using a custom API class to access the MediaWiki Action API. It uses SQLite or MySQL for persistent data storage. The Source code is available at Github.

Emergency shutoff

Individual tasks may be stopped by writing any non-whitespace content to various pages under User:CleanupBot/shutoff/; see the task list below for the specific page corresponding to each task. Many tasks also link the appropriate page from their edit summaries.

Exclusion compliance

This bot is an exclusion compliant bot; see {{bots}} for details.

Bot accounts

CleanupBot uses multiple accounts for its various tasks:

CleanupBot is a general-purpose bot account handling the majority of tasks.
CleanupBot II was designed to remove empty protal templates from pages in the Pages with empty portal template category.

Tasks

The full list of tasks for all CleanupBot bots is at User:CleanupBot/TaskList.

Current

Task	Disable	`{{bots}}`	Approval	Description
SourceUploader	Here	Y	Approved, Begun 2021-02-24	Perform general cleanup tasks.
SourceUploader	Here	Y	Approved, Begun 2023-08-13	Remove empty portal templates from the pages with empty portal template category.