 | 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. |
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DocumentationEdit
Technical detailsEdit
WikiDwarfBOT 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 shutoffEdit
Individual tasks may be stopped by writing any non-whitespace content to various pages under User:WikiDwarfBOT II/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 complianceEdit
This bot is an exclusion compliant bot; see {{bots}} for details.
Bot accountsEdit
CleanupBot uses multiple accounts for its various tasks:
- WikiDwarfBOT remove the AfD template from pages with missing deletion discussion pages.
- WikiDwarfBOT II fix double redirects listed at Special:DoubleRedirects.
TasksEdit
- The full list of tasks for all CleanupBot bots is at User:WikiDwarfBOT/TaskList.
CurrentEdit
| Task | Disable | {{bots}} |
Approval | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Check-afd | Here | 
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Approved, Begun 2020-08-25 | The bot was initially created to perform general cleanup and to create missing articles but later its tasks were changed to remove AfD template from pages with missing deletion discussion pages.
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| Redirect | Here |
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Approved, Begun 2023-08-18 | Fix double redirects listed at Special:DoubleRedirects. |