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Operator: ArmadilloFromHell

Manually Assisted:Yes

Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia framework

Function Summary:To scan through User pages listed in template categories - to make a list of user pages that should be edited to remove the template category/ies. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#User_pages_in_template_categories

Edit period(s) : As required, probably a few times a day until the problems as cleared up, then once or twice a month.

Edit rate requested: 6 edits per minute

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

Function Details: The initial version of the bot will not do any user page (or article) editing, just create a list to see what the possible workload is.

Discussion

So it crawls through a list of template categories and finds user pages? That seems like a lot of page requesting. Also, where does it get the list of template categories from?Voice-of-All 19:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]