User:Itubot
 | This user account is a bot operated by Itub (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. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it. |
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Description
[edit]- Function: the first task of this bot is to create a large number of redirects to chemical articles. This will be a one-time "assisted editing" job, as the list of redirects to create will involve human verification. Redirects will only be created when an article or redirect does not exist already. Therefore, the risk of edit conflicts and harm to existing articles is zero.
- Programming language: Perl, using the MediaWiki::API module
- Edit rate: Only edits when a task is initiated manually; edits about once per minute.