User:Polbot/older tasks

These are Polbot's former or completed tasks.

Polbot Function #1
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OperatorUser:Quadell
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Flagged?yes
Task(s)For missing U.S. representatives listed here, I read and parse info from the Congressional bioguide, format and wikify the data, and then upload it as a new article.
Edit rate4 edits per minute
Edit period(s)as needed
Automatic or manual?manually started, automatic-run (supervised) in chunks until complete
Programming language(s)Perl (LWP, perlwikipedia)
Exclusion compliant?No
Emergency shutoff-compliant?Yes
Other informationUses User:Polbot/fullreplist.
Source code here, here, and here.
Polbot Function #2
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OperatorUser:Quadell
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Task(s)I create redirects for alternate names for politicians (and other famous people).
I also store data for needed redirects while I'm at it. These are manually added to Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation, eventually.
Edit rate6 edits per minute
Edit period(s)as needed
Automatic or manual?manually started, automatic-run (supervised) in chunks until complete
Programming language(s)Perl (LWP, perlwikipedia)
Exclusion compliant?No
Emergency shutoff-compliant?Yes
Other informationUses User:Polbot/altnames.
Source code here and here.
Polbot Function #3
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OperatorUser:Quadell
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Flagged?yes
Task(s)I'll look through biographies to log and standardize sortorder information and living/dead status. See User:Polbot/ideas/defaultsort and User:Polbot/allbios.
Edit rate6 edits per minute
Edit period(s)until complete
Automatic or manual?manually started, automatic-run (supervised) in chunks until complete
Programming language(s)Perl (LWP, perlwikipedia)
Exclusion compliant?No
Emergency shutoff-compliant?Yes
Polbot Function #4
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OperatorUser:Quadell
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Flagged?yes
Task(s)I converted {{Bioguide}} to {{CongBio}} in articles.
Edit rate4 edits per minute
Edit period(s)Completed.
Automatic or manual?manually started, automatic-run (supervised) in chunks until complete
Programming language(s)Perl (LWP, perlwikipedia)
Exclusion compliant?No
Emergency shutoff-compliant?Yes
Other informationSource code here and here.
Polbot Function #5
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OperatorUser:Quadell
Approved?approved, but on hold for rethinking
Flagged?yes
Task(s)I remove piped linking in dabs
Edit rate6 edits per minute
Edit period(s)until complete
Automatic or manual?manually started, automatic-run (supervised) in chunks until complete
Programming language(s)Perl (LWP, perlwikipedia)
Exclusion compliant?Yes
Emergency shutoff-compliant?Yes
Polbot Function #6
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OperatorUser:Quadell
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Flagged?yes
Task(s)I create missing article on species.
Edit rate6 edits per minute
Edit period(s)as needed
Automatic or manual?manually started, automatic-run (supervised) in chunks
Programming language(s)Perl (LWP, perlwikipedia)
Exclusion compliant?No
Emergency shutoff-compliant?Yes
Other informationUser:Polbot/taxa listing
Source code here