User:MakBot

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This user is a robot operated infrequently by Makthorpe.

This user account is a bot operated by Makthorpe (talk). It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. tasks • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • global contribs • flag bot

Please direct all questions regarding the operation of the bot to Mak's user talk page.

MakBot recent change list

planned work

• In progress now
  • Small cleanups related to the first pass of the Place Name conversion (see below).
  • On Hold- Notification messages for the second pass. Waiting on Bot flag so we don't flood the RC list.

• Upcoming
  • Second pass of conversions of Categories violating the [Object] of [place name] pattern. For info see Commons:By_location_category_scheme. Approximately 900 categories affected (less than half of the first pass. A list will be posted shortly.
  • Process collections of categories by country to alphabetize lists.
  • Process collections of occupations and other people categories to convert to [occupation] from [placename]. Not going to be ridiculous about it, but largely it should be a uniform pattern.

Policies- self imposed

• Planned work announced at least a day in advance. Excepting uploads.
• Prior two week announcements on affected pages for potentially controversial changes.
• Mention of any large runs of note in Village pump.
• Server loading issues- Treading lightly
  • 8-14 second delays between writes.
  • delaying runs if server loading appears to be high, or that maintenance tasks appear to be going on.
• Published Scheme and/or a publicized talk page discussion establishing concensus for anything major
• Maintain a list of upcoming runs of any significance on the MakBot page.
• For anything big, prior trial runs followed by days of waiting for complaints in order to flush out any unexposed issues or errors in the bot.
• Accurate messages for an edit with links for ease of monitoring the bot's activities.
• The bot will not be used for Edits that have not been vetted with the above mentioned process.

Other Random Notes

• Bot flag vote I know MakBot's edits will occassionally flood people's watchlist and this can be annoying. Earlier I stated I would not apply for a bot flag, but if you want to be able to hide MakBot's edits by clicking "Hide bot" in the watchlist, then vote for the MakBot bot flag. I am indifferent on the matter and shall not vote.

• This is not a request bot. However if there is some emergency need, please don't hesitate to contact me.

• Commons only bot- MakBot is a commoner and doesn't go out to other wiki's to do edits at this time. Possibly in the future MakBot might leave
  {{Commons|[commons page]}} markers , or NCTs
  as a bi-product of some other effort if I happen to be touching their pages.

History of work

• 2005-07-28 Various clean up runs and reversions of disputed category moves.
• 2006-07-21 First pass Adjective Placename conversions
• 2006_07-14 Small sniff test run of Adjectival Placename assault- The "A" list of categories
• 2006-06 Advance warnings pages for Adjectival Placename switchover project 6/2006.
• 2006-06 New bot.