User:Merge bot

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Task 1
This bot account is responsible for maintaining Proposed mergers/Log and its subpages, which are derived from Category:Articles to be merged, for the benefit of Proposed mergers and WikiProject Merge.

It is a revived fork of RFC bot's automated list of proposed mergers, which stopped working after August 2011. The log files created by that bot operation were proposed for deletion in March 2012‎. Fortunately they weren't deleted as a result of that proposal, enabling me to find them and then revive the operation under a new bot. Normally these logs are deleted after being emptied via resolving all merge proposals for a given month, and then tagging them with. For example, see the deleted Proposed mergers/Log/June 2008.

Merge bot task 1 generally runs twice daily (every 12 hours). Occasionally it misses a run, because it crashes with errors such as this from its API: Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: HTTP Error. When this task was approved in May 2013, a typical run took 1 hr, 22 min. By February 2017, it typically ran within just 20 minutes. The work queue is somewhat shorter now, but I'm guessing improved back-end hardware and/or software performance is also responsible for the shorter processing times. In May 2019 I increased the frequency to twice daily.

Links

 * All pages with prefix Wikipedia:Proposed mergers
 * All pages with prefix Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers
 * Contributions
 * Source code for task 1
 * botclasses.php, a PHP bot framework
 * MediaWiki API
 * Category:Merge templates