User:Bot ishmael

This is Dr ishmael. He decided wasn't enough of a human robot, he had to create this bot account as well.

Bot scripts
All Perl scripted tasks have the following properties unless stated otherwise:
 * Language: Perl
 * Using the Perlwikipedia module for wiki interface tasks

All tasks run at a throttle of 10 seconds between edits (maximum 6 edits/minute).

Bot tasks/Builds redlinks rewrite
Run intermittently between 2 May and 3 June 2008 due to many reasons. Total edits: >4,000. Needs to be run once more, after m.mendel finishes fixing MayBot's edits in User and User talk namespaces.

Bot tasks/Subpages
12-13 June 2008. Completed /Male and /Types sections.

Deleting old hi-res icons
The list of images to be deleted is at User:Bot ishmael/List of old hi-res icons. This task will be done in three stages:


 * 1) Edit all links to the old versions so that they point to the new versions.
 * 2) * This will be semi-automated with AWB, making a list of "Links on page" from User:Bot ishmael/Links to old hi-res icons, which was generated with a Perl script checking Special:WhatLinksHere for each image in the list.
 * 3) Move (merge if necessary) any talk pages from the old images to the new images.
 * 4) * This will be performed manually, using the list on User:Bot ishmael/Talkpages for old hi-res icons, which was generated with a Perl script checking for the existence of an "Image talk:" counterpart for each image in the list.
 * 5) Delete the old images.
 * 6) * This will be fully automated by a Perl script, set to a 10-second throttle to allow plenty of time for intervention if it is seen to behave in an unexpected manner.
 * 1) Delete the old images.
 * 2) * This will be fully automated by a Perl script, set to a 10-second throttle to allow plenty of time for intervention if it is seen to behave in an unexpected manner.