User:GalliumBot
 | This user account is a bot operated by theleekycauldron (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. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
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| Operator | theleekycauldron |
| Author | theleekycauldron |
| Approved? | yes |
| Programming language(s) | Python |
| Exclusion compliant? | No |
| Source code published? | yep |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | yep |
Howdy, I'm theleekycauldron – I operate GalliumBot :) he handles the maintenance and update of various statistics and record pages for Wikipedia:Did you know. I've been wanting to operate a bot for quite some time – this account has existed since February 2022 – but he's only been active since October 2022, when I finally pushed myself to finish up some of the scripts I'd been sitting on.
Naming
[edit]GalliumBot's pronouns are he/it, mainly because it's silly that some inanimate objects are referred to as "she". Might as well get in on the game. The name "Gallium" is a few puns rolled into single username:
- Like gallium, the metal that melts at 85.6 °F (302.9 K), I tend to not do so well in the heat.
- Allium is the genus that contains leeks :)
- "gal" is a non-standard pronunciation of "girl"
Presumably, none of that is gonna stop Tamzin from blocking it for violating the naming policy.
Tasks
[edit]approved tasks approval pending tasks approved tasks, inactive userspace tasks
| no. | name | task | interval | first | discussion | brfa | status |
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| 1 | darn | Detecting and logging modifications of DYK hooks | 1 hour | 00:25 | passed | approved | inactive |
| 2 | vandyke | Updating Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics and notifying nominators | 1 day | 03:27 | n/a | approved | active |
| 3 | proctor | Updating Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of DYK promotions | 1 hour | 00:21 | n/a | approved | active |
| 4 | transfem | Maintaining WP:DYKN and WP:DYKNA | 5 minutes | n/a | approved | active | |
| 6 | prep set helper | Cleaning up hooks at Template:Did you know/Queue | 1 hour | not started | inactive | ||
| 7 | DYK protector | Move-protect bolded articles that appear on Did you know | 24 hours | passed | not started | inactive | |
| 8 | cupboard | Maintenance of the WikiCup | ? | passed | not started | inactive | |
| — | scope | Printing the bot's programmatic innards in its userspace | 1 hour | 01:22 | not necessary | inactive | |
| — | aftree | Maintaining User:Theleekycauldron/fun/admin family tree | 1 day | 02:23 | not necessary | inactive | |
cupboard
[edit]The WikiCup Bot analyzer, resetter, and distributor (cupboard) is an in-progress project to manage various facets of the WikiCup. It currently has no published source code.
darn
[edit]The DYK addition and removal notary (darn) script detects modifications made to Did you know hooks when they are in the preparation areas or Main Page queues. When those modifications are detected, they are logged at the article's nomination talk page – see Template talk:Did you know nominations/Measure VY for an example of this.
proctor
[edit]The promotion counter to, ostensibly, rank (proctor) script maintains WP:DYKPC, a record of DYK prep builders and the number of promotions they've made over their months and years of service. The proctor script also maintains several lists in GalliumBot's userspace:
- /proctor/open will tell you that you closed a specific nomination, on a specific date. Each nomination is sorted into month-by-month subpages according to the date the nomination was opened.
- /proctor/close will tell you that you closed a certain number of nominations in a month. Each month-by-month page contains a sort of leaderboard, counting nominations according to the date they were closed.
- /proctor/user will tell you how many nominations you closed in every month. Each subpage is dedicated to one user, listing their numerical count, percentage of the total number of nominations closed, and rank among promoters in each month.
scope
[edit]The source code publishing executive (scope) script posted itself and all other currently active scripts being used by GalliumBot to his userspace. Now that I've learned to actually use gitlab, it's offline.
transfem
[edit]The transclusion ferrier and mover (transfem) script shuttles nominations between WP:DYKN and WP:DYKNA, removes closed nominations from those pages, and returns lost nominations to them. It has a subprotocol, the transclusion master approval scoreboard (transmasc), which maintains a mockup at User:GalliumBot/transfem/DYK hook count.
vandyke
[edit]The views analyzer for DYK extraordinaire (vandyke) script updates the monthly tables and analytics pages of Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics, collating and adjusting pageviews for articles during their Main Page appearance. The vandyke script also notifies nominators when their hooks meet a certain viewcount threshold. The source code currently consists of three parts: