User:Helpful Pixie Bot




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Tools
Perl/WP:AWB at the moment. I also use Perl to scan database downloads and to generate the XML for AWB. If requested I will prepare lists of articles for other users when I can. Where possible Helpful Pixie Bot will avoid pages with the tag.

Test pages
To test Helpful Pixie Bot's main task (perl invocation only) use User:Helpful Pixie Bot/General Sandbox. Add Smack me/Pixie me and it will (should) get cleaned about 18 minutes later.

Tasks and authorisations

 * I plan to clean this list up over the next few days.. or weeks .. or years. Useful resource User:Rich Farmbrough/temp120. Bots/Requests_for_approval/SmackBot

-1:Bot flag requests (all by me)

 * On Meta requested flag March 2006
 * requested removal April 2006
 * On WP requested flag June 2006
 * Note that the former granting of the bit does not show on the bot rights log, presumably because of software changes.

0: U.S. 2000 census articles into past tense

 * Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 0
 * Status: Complete

1: Correct "External link" to "External links"

 * Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 1
 * Status: Ongoing

2: Correct "Reference" to "References"

 * BRFA Request III. ✅
 * Status: Ongoing

3a: Correct "ISBN:" to "ISBN" to allow wikimagic to prevail

 * Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 3a
 * Status: Ongoing

3b: Correct ISBN hyphenation

 * Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 3b and 3c
 * Status: Ongoing

3c: tag invalid ISBNs

 * Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 3b and 3c
 * Status: Ongoing

4: Other minor improvements to layout of ISBN to allow wikimagic to prevail

 * Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot task approval VI
 * (Insert correct hyphenation of ISBNs, label articles with invalid ISBNs (too short, too long, lang code, pub code undefined)).
 * Check check digit, categorise articles with invalid ISBNs.
 * Convert to 13 digit code (standard from 2007) see ISBN (currently paused)
 * Status: Ongoing (except part 3)

5: Add a date to the maintenance tags
Tags which put articles in sub-categories or planned sub-categories of sorted by month - mainly:
 * Wikify
 * Orphan
 * Uncategorized
 * Uncatstub
 * Cleanup
 * Unreferenced
 * Notability
 * Expand
 * Merge
 * Copy edit
 * Citation needed
 * Not verified
 * and their synonyms and near-synonyms - something over 490 templates and 1900 redirects. (This should be exhaustive for those which are not merely planned -i.e all occurrences should be dated.)
 * At the same time SB corrects mis-spellings, mis-entry and mis-formatting of the date parameter and other template features where it can.
 * Status: Ongoing

6: Replace tags Disambig and Cleanup with Disambig-cleanup.

 * BRFA request Helpful Pixie Bot task 6 ✅
 * Status: Ongoing

7: Replace birth dates and death dates in Infoboxen

 * With Birth date, Death date, Birth date and age or Death date and age as appropriate.
 * Status: hiatus

8: Add references section and appropriate mark up
To articles with "ref" footnotes and no such mark up.
 * Status: Ongoing

9: Unlink days of week and month names

 * Status: Ongoing

10: Remove ":" from redirects

 * Status: Ongoing - intermittent runs

11: Replace start dates and end dates in Infoboxen
With Start date etc as appropriate.
 * Status: Stopped - not sure of the value of this

12: Insert Start date and End date
Into instantiations of various templates. Approved here
 * Status: Stopped - not sure of the value of this

13: Replace Geobox XXX with Geobox

 * Status: Stopped possibly complete

14: Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers
Deals with many hundreds of common errors.
 * Status: Ongoing

15: Moved Saint Louis categories to St. Louis

 * Status: complete

16: UK links direct to United Kingdom. Nazi to Nazism

 * Status: Stopped

17: Pipe US to United States replace with U.S.

 * Note that MoS now slightly prefers US to U.S.
 * Status: Stopped

18: Replace/pipe link Academy Award with Academy Awards

 * Status: Stopped

19: In days of the year replace first occurrence of date with templated link

 * Status: Completed

20: More Fix-ups in US Census articles.

 * Status: Completed

21: Modified Swiss geog. articles census field to avoid deprecated "as of month year" links

 * Status: Completed

22: Tidy up album articles

 * BRFA Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 22
 * Status: Partially completed

23: Replace Erik9Bot category with appropriate unref tag

 * Status: Completed

24: Add DEFAULTSORT to people-stubs so they are listed correctly

 * Status: First run completed

35: Canonicalise clean up tags to enable dating

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 35
 * Status: Ongoing

36: Hyphenate adjectival uses of nn mile

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 36

37: Use as date things that were almost certainly date

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 37

38: Remove duplicate tags

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 38

39: Fix up the name of navboxen to be the actual name of the template

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 39

40: Clean up certain members of YEAR in categories.

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 40

41: Monitor article moves and correct DEFAULTSORT

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 41

42: Add DEFAULTSORT to pages which are sorted out-of-order in a category

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 42

43: Remove Template:Unreferenced from year, decade or century articles

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/SmackBot 43

44: Replace links piped to anchored sections with links piped to specific articles.

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 44

45: Change some paramerers in Infobox ice hockey player

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 45

46: General editing - CfD, TfD, etc.

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 46

47: Add to monthly maintenence categories

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 47

48: Add missing ref sections and parameter blanks to language articles containing

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 48

49: Link "Expand language" tags to their correctly interwikied counterpart

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 49

50: Convert some minor planet pages to redirects

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 50

51: Correct the capitalization of "Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia"

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 51

52: Correct superfmailies in bird articles

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 52

53: It happens that Commons category is used where there is no valid target category. This task takes two steps to resolve and avoid the problem.

 * BRFA - Bots/Requests for approval/Helpful Pixie Bot 53

Known bugs, issues, comments: by task number

 * See also Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs

2

 * Bug sometimes misses items.
 * Feature - tag incorrect lengths
 * Feature - fix multiple codes after one signifier
 * Feature - fix length where appropriate

Approval status for various tasks prior to task 35

 * Note, due to consolidating the task list numbering of this list will be out of synchronisation for a while at least. For detail go back in history to before 1 October 2010.
 * Using AWB notified 5 March 2006 here.
 * On 26 March 2006 a request for withdrawing approval from this bot was made here.
 * As a result the flag was voluntarily relinquished, and regained through a new process (see above).
 * Approval request for recurrent task 2. Request II. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task 10. Request IV. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task 11. Request V. Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 3a. Request VI. Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 3b and 3c. Requests VII and VIII. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off tasks 13 and 14. Requests IX and X. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task 15. Request XI(a). Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 5. Request XI(c). Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 6. Request XII. Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 7. Request XIII. Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 8. Request XIV. Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 11. Request XV. Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 10. Request XVI. Approved.
 * Approval request for recurrent task 12. Request XVII. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task 13. Request XVIII. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task 14. Request XIX. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task 15. Request XX. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task 16. Request XXI. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task 17. Request XXII. Withdrawn (task already completed).
 * Approval request for one off task. Request XXIII. Withdrawn (task already completed).
 * Approval request for repetitive task. Request XXIV. Expired.
 * Approval request for one off task. Request XXV. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task. Request XXVI. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task. Request XXVII. Missing.
 * Approval request for repetitive task. Request XXVIII. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task. Request XXIX. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task. Request XXX. Approved.
 * Approval request for one off task. Request XXXI. Approved.

Awards

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