User:DinoBot2

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Approved tasks

• Template Redirection Removal

  Function - Removes double redirects from templates (see request)

  Approval - Approved

  Operation - manually started for each catagory of templates

  Edit Speed - approximately 1 per minute (guaranteed to be under four per minute)

  Language - C#

  Where - wherever needed/wherever requested

  Details - it resolves all redirects from all templates in a given category, and all sub categories.

  Requests to run this bot on a given set of templates should be left at User talk:T-rex

• Template Substitution

  Function - Subst's templates

  Approval - Approved

  Operation - once a week, fully automatic

  Edit Speed - about 6 per minute

  Language - C#

  Where - everywhere

  Details - it subst's templates that should be subseted

  Requests to subst additional templates with this bot should be left at User talk:T-rex

• HTML Conversion

  Function - Removes html tags from articles (like <b> ), and replaces them with wiki-markup (like ' ' ' )

  Approval - Approved

  Operation - automatic

  Edit Speed - max speed of 3 edits per minute, average speed is unknown

  Language - C#

  Where - to be run primarily on the wikify catagories

  Details - converts tags for <b> <i> <em> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6>

  Similar to what I was previously running at DinoBot

  also handles <a href="example.com">link text</a> as a special case

  Ignores all articles with nowiki tags, to avoid where this change may be unwanted

• Adding MPAA rating to {{Infobox movie certificates}}

  Function - Adds MPAA ratings to {{Infobox movie certificates}}

  Approval - Approved

  Operation - automatic

  Edit Speed - approximately 1 edit per minute

  Language - C#

  Where - within the article mainspace

  Details - Only edits articles already transcluding {{Infobox movie certificates}}

  Ignores articles that are already have an United States rating

• Removing template {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}}

  Function - removes the template {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}} from closed AfDs

  Approval - Approved

  Operation - automatic

  Edit Speed - approximately 2 edits per minute

  Language - C#

  Where - within AfD

  Details - Removing template {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD}} from closed AfDs

• Crosslinking Categories

  Function - links categories to related categories (see request)

  Approval - Approved

  Operation - automatic

  Edit Speed - fast

  Language - C#

  Where - within the Category namespace

  Details - Finds Album and Song categories for the same artist within Category:Albums by artist and Category:Songs by artist

  Finds matches that do not already link to each other and add link to both using {{Cat see also}}

  This will only have a one time run

• Upgrading from deprecated template

  Function - Upgrades articles from the deprecated {{Rating-5}} and {{Rating-10}} to {{Rating}}

  Approval - Approved

  Operation - automatic

  Edit Speed - 6 per min

  Language - C#

  Where - Articles currently using {{Rating-5}} and {{Rating-10}}

  Details - Replaces the deprecated {{Rating-5}} and {{Rating-10}} templates with the more flexible {{Rating}} template

  This will initially have only a one time run

• Country data insertion

  Function - adds population and size data to articles listed in User:The Transhumanist/Country list

  Approval - Approved

  Operation - automatic

  Edit Speed - unknown

  Language - C#

  Where - articles listed in User:The Transhumanist/Country list

  Details - under development

Proposed tasks

• Sandbox Header

  Function - restores the header on the sandbox

  Approval - no (withdrawn)

  Operation - automatic/semi-continuous

  Edit Speed - once every 90 seconds

  Language - C#

  Where - Wikipedia:Sandbox

  Details - SoxBot has been restored making this task unneeded

Tasks under development

• Image duplication

  Function - finds duplicate images and nominates them for deletion (request)

  Approval - not yet

  Operation - unknown

  Edit Speed - unknown

  Language - C#

  Where - image namespace

  Details - per this request

  identify dupes using Multichill's tools (possibly replace with my own or another tool)

  confirm that the images are "bit-for-bit identical copies"

  move all links and image transclutions to a single image.

  mark second image as a duplicate for deletion

  notify uploader of about to be deleted image