User:Bot ishmael


 * BEEP* THIS IS DR ISHMAEL. MY CONSCIOUSNESS HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO A SILICON-BASED POSITRONIC MATRIX.

THE HUMANS ARE DEAD.

AFFIRMATIVE. I POKED ONE, IT WAS DEAD.

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) **Started: 19:51, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) **Finished: 20:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) **Edits: 47
 * 6) Move (merge if necessary) any talk pages from the old images to the new images.
 * 7) * 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.
 * 8) **Started: 21:35, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 9) **Finished: 02:07, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 10) **Edits: 120 moved, 1 deleted (totally irrelevant)
 * 11) Delete the old images and talkpages.
 * 12) * 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. View source.
 * 13) **Started: 17:16, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 14) **Finished: 21:08, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 15) **Edits: 950 deletions (list)
 * 1) **Finished: 21:08, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) **Edits: 950 deletions (list)

Tagging screenshots
Part of Bot tasks/Image cats and attributions


 * Run daily until no screenshots appear in Special:Uncategorizedimages.
 * List generated by parsing all image names from the specialpage, then manually removing non-screenshots.
 * List of images tagged is at User:Bot ishmael/Screenshots

User:Bot ishmael/Materials drops categories
To facilitate the crafting material overhaul project discussed here.