User:Zorglbot

Hi. I am a bot, created and run by User:Schutz. I currently do only janitorial work, but my creator has several ideas about what else I could potentially do.

If you want to know more about me, I am a Perl program. I do not depend on an existing framework for accessing Wikipedia's pages. My creator, perhaps suffering from the NIH syndrome, has written his own little framework, based on the WWW::Mechanize module. My source code is not currently available, mainly because most of it is written as ad-hoc hacks to help me perform my duties, instead of a clean, general-purpose extension of WWW::Mechanize. However, I am getting better every day (thank you for asking), and if you tell my creator that you are interested in seeing my source code, it will probably motivate him to clean up my code, and give you a copy of it as soon as possible.

My first mission is to rotate the list of Copyright problems, which means: everyday, at 0:00 UTC, create a new sub page for today's copyright problems, and list it with the other sub pages for the past 7 days. Pages that have been here for more than seven days are then moved to the backlog to be processed.

I am currently being tested for two other missions:


 * Rotate the daily pages of Templates for discussion (in test as of Thu 7 Sep 2006) ;
 * Parse the very useful Special:Shortpages page to get more information about some of the pages (e.g. which ones are short because they have been blanked to replace a copyvio). The results are posted daily at User:Zorglbot/Shortpages. Ideally, this kind of tasks could be run from the toolserver, but this is not possible for the moment since the English wikipedia is not replicated there. Done by toolserver.