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| + | !Kenneth is a bot | ||
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| + | |'''Stop him from running by changing [[User talk:Kenneth|this page]].''' | ||
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''If you are looking for the IRC factoid bot, see [[Kenneth]].'' | ''If you are looking for the IRC factoid bot, see [[Kenneth]].'' | ||
| − | '''Kenneth''' is a bot for use on this wiki. | + | '''Kenneth''' is a bot for use on this wiki. He is an automated process designed to do tedious tasks it would take a human a while to do, quickly.<br> He finds pages that aren't up to scratch and makes them easier to find. He is semi-automated, and run by <span class="nounderlinelink">[[User:Microchip08|<span class="buttonlink" title="MC8" style="border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000;white-space:nowrap;background-color:black;padding:2px 2px 2px 2px;color:lime;font-family:arial narrow;"> '''μ'''c8</span>]]</span>. He edits in runs: to stop him from editing mid-run, see the instructions to the right. |
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| + | ==Logs== | ||
| + | {{Special:Prefixindex/User:Kenneth/}} | ||
| + | ==Changes== | ||
| + | If required, the bot: | ||
| + | {| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;" | ||
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| + | * Fixes common mistakes in "see also" and "external links" sections, removes excess white space. | ||
| + | * Sorts interwiki links alphabetically (individually selectable in menu), and puts them at the bottom of the page with stubs. | ||
| + | * Unicodifies interwiki links. | ||
| + | * Removes duplicate interwikis and categories. | ||
| + | * Puts categories after page body, followed by interwiki links and stub templates. Recognizes some comments as cat and interwiki headers. | ||
| + | * Adds bullet points to external links after the <nowiki>==External links==</nowiki>. | ||
| + | * Replaces italic and bold html markup with wiki markup. | ||
| + | * Repairs [[Wikipedia:Bad links|bad links]]. | ||
| + | * Simplifies links like <nowiki>[[Dog|Dog]]</nowiki> to <nowiki>[[Dog]]</nowiki>. | ||
| + | * Simplifies links like <nowiki>[[Dog|Dogs]]</nowiki> to <nowiki>[[Dog]]s</nowiki>. | ||
| + | * Adds bold text to the first occurrence of the title of the page (if there is no other bold text). | ||
| + | * De-links self referencing wiki-links. | ||
| + | * Remove empty <nowiki>[[]]</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{}}</nowiki>, and for the wikilinks, caters for categories and images too | ||
| + | * Correct numerous incorrect degrees symbols | ||
| + | * Removes accents in <nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT}}</nowiki> tags and category sortkeys so that sorting is alphabetical, not ASCIIbetical | ||
| + | * Removes the (unneeded) sort key from categories if a <nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT}}</nowiki> entry is present with the same sort key | ||
| + | * Fixes external links starting with <nowiki>http://http://</nowiki> | ||
| + | * Removes unneeded pipes from simple external links | ||
| + | * Uses non-breaking spaces to prevent unwanted end-of-line displacements | ||
| + | * Repair <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags before and after punctuation. | ||
| + | * Removes multiple copies of the same <nowiki><ref></nowiki> | ||
| + | * If there are two references at the same places, sorts them (so <sup>[1][2][3]</sup> instead of <sup>[2][1][3]</sup>) | ||
| + | |} | ||
| + | Although these are not always needed on this wiki, it will still look and fix any of these 'errors' as required. | ||
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| + | Kenneth runs under [http://enwp.org/WP:AWB AWB]. | ||
Latest revision as of 21:24, 28 December 2009
| Kenneth is a bot |
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| Stop him from running by changing this page. |
If you are looking for the IRC factoid bot, see Kenneth.
Kenneth is a bot for use on this wiki. He is an automated process designed to do tedious tasks it would take a human a while to do, quickly.
He finds pages that aren't up to scratch and makes them easier to find. He is semi-automated, and run by . He edits in runs: to stop him from editing mid-run, see the instructions to the right.
Logs
Changes
If required, the bot:
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Although these are not always needed on this wiki, it will still look and fix any of these 'errors' as required.
Kenneth runs under AWB.
