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FA Template Protection Bot

Operator: Chris

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Auto

Programming Language(s): PHP using Cobi's classes

Function Summary: Adds all the templates on today's and tommorow's fa to Wikipedia:Main Page/Protection which is cascade protected

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): on the hour

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: The bot works like so:

  1. Parses the name of today's fa from here (with some error checking)
  2. Get's all the templates on the fa and removes those listed here
  3. Formats the templates into a nice list
  4. Places the formated text on Wikipedia:Main Page/Protection

The bot will only run if User:Chris G/FABot Run is set to "Run" (cases insenstive)

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