User:AnomieBOT

Updates the pages under User:AnomieBOT/source to reflect the current source of the bot.

Updates algorithmically-defined "watchlists" (like User:Anomie/uw-templates) when pages are created or deleted. The bot only edits when something actually changes.

Supplemental:
+ 2008-09-11
+ 2008-09-20
+ 2009-03-23

Supplemental:
+ 2012-08-29

Peform the following tasks at WP:FFD:

• Create the daily FFD subpage.
• Fix the headers on the daily PUF subpages, if they get removed or damaged.
• Close nominations where the file has been deleted.
• Close nominations where the file does not exist.
• Close nominations where the file is on Commons.
• Subst {{ffd top}} and {{ffd bottom}}, when editing the page anyway.
• Maintain the page Wikipedia:Files for discussion/Old unclosed discussions.

Remove instances of {{afd-merge from}} where the merge has been completed. Report instances of {{afd-merge from}} where the AFDed page is now a redirect to a different target.

Periodically choose a random article from a category or union/intersection of categories and write it to a page, as instructed by {{User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage}}.

Process each anniversary article (e.g. Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 31 for 2008-10-31, 2007-10-31, 2006-10-31, and so on) to extract the bolded links and tag the corresponding article talk pages with {{OnThisDay}}.

Supplemental:
+ 2024-02-04

Find transclusions of {{translated page}} and other templates documented for talk pages mistakenly placed on article pages, and move them to the corresponding talk page.

Replace all transclusions of {{cbb link}} or {{cfb link}} where the most specific alternative exists with the specific link, to reduce the #ifexist parserfunction load. Similar templates may be added in the future as needed.

Supplemental:
+ 2010-12-01
+ 2011-09-05
+ 2011-09-09
+ 2011-09-26

Various BAG-related maintenance tasks:

• Update Wikipedia:BAG/Status
• Notify users when {{Operator assistance needed}} is used.
• Move BRFAs from Open to Trial to Trial Complete to Approved/Denied/Withdrawn/Expired as necessary.
• Remove Category:Open Wikipedia bot requests for approval from closed BRFAs.

Remove pages from categories where the page does not meet the page inclusion criteria. For example, Category:Wikipedia redirects is explicitly stated that it shouldn't contain any actual redirects.

Check the permanent redirects under User:AnomieBOT/req/ to validate the anchor still exists in the target page. If the anchor can be found in an archive subpage, the redirect will be updated. Otherwise, the bot will ask for help on its talk page.

Note this doesn't handle {{anchor}} or the like, just TOC headers.

Supplemental:
+ 2020-06-06

Perform certain tasks for WP:WikiProject Deletion sorting:

• Subst various AfD templates that should be substed
• Archive discussions for closed XfDs
• Remove duplicate XfD listings

If necessary, the bot may be kept off a deletion sorting subpage by adding {{bots|optout=AnomieBOT/DeletionSortingCleaner}} to that page.

Daily at 0000 UTC:

• Add the section for the new day at WP:ITN/C
• Archive the oldest day from WP:ITN/C to the appropriate archive page
• Update Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/Archives as new archive subpages are created.

Periodically checks pages in Category:Pages automatically checked for incorrect links for categories and language links seemingly in running text, and adds the necessary ":" to make them wikilinks instead.

Subst templates in Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted. See documentation for details.

Supplemental:
+ Withdrawn

Perform basic clerking tasks at WP:CHU/U.

Supplemental:
+ 2012-01-20
+ 2011-10-13
+ 2015-03-28
+ 2024-03-10

Date maintenance tags in articles listed in first-level subcategories of Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month and Category:Wikipedia categories sorted by month.

• If a maintenance category is directly used on the page, and a corresponding template is already on the page, remove the direct category use.
• For templates in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates or User:AnomieBOT/Dating rules, and their redirects:
  • If a date exists in |1= or certain other parameters, move it to |date=.
    • Exception is made for if |1= is declared in templatedata as existing and not being an alias for |date=.
  • If the date is an incorrect format (e.g. MDY, DMY, YMD), correct it to the Month Year format needed by the templates.
  • If all else fails, add the current Month Year as |date=
• For {{multiple issues}} and redirects:
  • For each parameter besides "article", "section", "expert", "text", and numbered parameters, correct the date format or fill in the current date as above.
• For {{as of}}, {{update after}}, and their redirects:
  • If a |date= exists, remove it or move it to |1= if necessary.
  • If |1= contains a recognizable date instead of having the date specified with year in 1, month in 2, and day in 3, correct it. Supply the current year if necessary.
  • If no date is found or |1= is "today", "now", or certain other keywords, add the current date.
• For {{disambiguation}} and its redirects:
  • If it includes "cleanup" or aliases, change it to {{disambiguation cleanup}} and date it.
  • If it includes "one non-primary topic" or aliases, remove that and add {{one other topic}}.
• For {{disambiguation cleanup}} and its redirects:
  • If it includes "cleanup" or aliases, remove them as redundant.
  • If it includes "one non-primary topic" or aliases, remove that and add {{one other topic}}.
• If the above resulted in no changes, templates used in the article are in turn checked in the same manner.
  • Also, if the template has the output of {{subst:rfd}}, it will be bypassed if the bypassed redirect would be dated.

Update crosslinks on WP:ACN and WT:ACN when content is archived.

Remove flag icons from certain infoboxes and layout templates per community consensus.

Update a list of {{bots}} usage.

Peform the following tasks at WP:TFD:

• Create the daily TFD subpage.
• Fix the headers on the daily TFD subpages, if they get removed or damaged.
• Maintain the page Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Old unclosed discussions.
• Subst {{tfd top}} and {{tfd bottom}}, when editing the page anyway.

Update User:AnomieBOT/PERTable, User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/EPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable, User:AnomieBOT/COIREQTable, and User:AnomieBOT/PREQTable.

Replace expired instances of {{show by date}} with the "after" text. Should an instance need to be not substed, use |nosubst=yes or |demo=yes.

If a new article has been deleted in the past via AFD, add {{old AfD multi}} to its talk page.

Supplemental:
+ 2012-06-04

Create needed categories under Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month and Category:Wikipedia categories sorted by month.

Peform the following tasks at WP:DRV:

• Create the daily DRV subpage.
• Create the monthly DRV subpage.
• Fix the headers on the daily DRV subpages, if they get removed or damaged.
• Maintain the lists at WP:DRV#Active discussions and WP:DRV#Recent discussions.
• Remove headers from closed non-current discussions.

Create redirects for non-existing talk pages of certain pages:

• Template pages ending in "/doc", "/sandbox", "/testcases", "/TemplateData", or "/styles.css"
• Module pages ending in "/doc", "/sandbox", or "/styles.css"

Create redirects for IMO numbers, based on categorization in Category:IMO numbers.

Supplemental:
+ 2020-06-19

Create redirects for articles with titles containing en-dashes from the corresponding title with ASCII hyphens. Update these redirects later as targets change.

Peform the following tasks at WP:CFD:

• Create the daily CFD subpage.
• Fix the headers on the daily CFD subpages, if they get removed or damaged.
• Remove the "NEW NOMINATIONS" section and related comments from past days' discussions.
• Maintain the list at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Awaiting closure.
• Maintain the list at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Old unclosed discussions.
• Subst {{cfd top}} and {{cfd bottom}}, when editing the page anyway.

Copy category membership to pages under User:AnomieBOT/C, based on configuration in User:AnomieBOT/CategoryLister/Categories.

Archive old requests for Peer Review:

• Collect titles and archive indexes from Category:Current peer reviews:
  • After three months if listed at Template:FAC peer review sidebar or Template:Peer review/Unanswered peer reviews sidebar or have only one contributor.
  • After one month otherwise.
• For each page where both the talk page and the PR archive page exist, and the conditions above are satisfied, replace {{Peer review|archive=$index}} with {{subst:Close peer review|archive=$index}} on the talk page and {{Peer review page}} with {{Closed peer review page}} on the PR.

Create Template:POTD protected/YYYY-MM-DD two days before the corresponding date, in time for it to be transcluded onto WP:Main Page/Tomorrow.

Subst templates to implement the results of a deletion discussion, based on listing at User:AnomieBOT/TFDTemplateSubster.

Create a page listing some interesting numbers:

• Smallest number that is not the primary topic.
• Smallest number without its own article.
• Smallest number without an article or redirect.

This assumes that all number articles will be at or have a redirect from a title like 42 (number).

Redirects and disambiguation pages will be automatically assessed with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA, stubs will be automatically assessed with class=stub if not already assessed, and non-article pages will be automatically assessed with the appropriate class and importance=NA.

Replace all transclusions of one template with another (or with several others depending on template parameters, etc), when a template must be renamed. Normally, this will be the result of a TFD, but it could be used for any clear-cut case. It will not be done just to replace a template redirect when the redirect is going to remain.

When consensus exists for deprecating external link parameters from an infobox, the bot will go through all transclusions of the infobox, remove the external link parameters, and add the corresponding external link or external link template to the article's External links section if that section does not already contain the corresponding link. An External links section will be created if necessary. Any issues encountered will be logged. Each page will only be processed once (a local database holds the pageids of all successfully-processed pages).

Replace {{{subst|}}} in specifically named templates with <includeonly>safesubst:</includeonly>. If appropriate, may also insert <includeonly>safesubst:</includeonly> into {{#if and other parser functions, or specifically named template invocations.

Replace URL redirector links with direct links to the target URL.

Add archiveurl for dead or dying links, when an archive can be found at archive.org or webcitation.org, and optionally tag unarchived links with {{dead link}} or a similar template.

Bypass redirects in certain limited cases, currently:

• To prevent confusion when a username is being usurped.

Clears a sandbox page to predefined content once every 12 hours (at or shortly after 00:00 and 12:00 UTC), and checks once per hour to ensure the header is present on the page. As with User:SoxBot IV, this task takes instruction from User:X!/Sandbots.css.

Add {{restricted use}} to files listed at MediaWiki:Bad image list, and remove it from files not listed at that page.

Replace {{WP MMOG}} (and old redirects) with {{WikiProject Video games}}. Also canonicalizes redirects to {{WikiProject Video games}} on the pages it edits for this reason, since it's editing them anyway.

Replace {{WikiProject Nintendo}} (and old redirects) with {{WikiProject Video games|tf=Nintendo}}. Also canonicalizes redirects to {{WikiProject Video games}} on the pages it edits for this reason, since it's editing them anyway.

Per Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 22#Template:Female adult bio, go through all uses of {{Female adult bio}} to remove the obsolete orientation parameter.

Replace {{WikiProject Neurology}} (and old redirects) with {{WPMED|neurology=yes|neurology-imp=}}.

Assess existing {{Physics}} and {{WPAstronomy}} on talk pages of redirect/disambig pages with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA.

Replace links to the domains w*.allmusic.com with just "allmusic.com", as those other domains no longer function.

Replace {{Segaproject}} (and old redirects) with {{WikiProject Video games|tf=Sega}}. Also preserve Sonic task force taging and canonicalizes redirects to {{WikiProject Video games}} on the pages it edits for this reason, since it's editing them anyway.

Convert {{Infobox Aircraft}} in article space to the new {{Infobox Aircraft Begin}}{{Infobox Aircraft Type}} system.

Replace {{Fluid}} (and redirects) with {{physics|fluid-dynamics=yes}} and {{Relativity banner}} (and redirects) with {{physics|relativity=yes}}.

Tag articles in specified categories with a WikiProject template. Redirects and disambiguation pages will be automatically assessed with class=redirect/disambig and importance=NA, stubs will be automatically assessed with class=stub, and non-article pages will be automatically assessed with the appropriate class and importance=NA.

Supplemental:
+ 2012-08-29
+ 2013-05-07

Peform the following tasks at WP:PUF:

• Create the daily PUF subpage.
• Fix the headers on the daily PUF subpages, if they get removed or damaged.
• Close discussions where the file has been deleted.
• Close discussions where the file does not exist.
• Close discussions where the file is on Commons.
• Subst {{puf top}} and {{puf bottom}}, when editing the page anyway.
• Maintain the list at WP:PUF#Holding cell.

Replace {{Zeldaproj}} (and redirects) with {{WikiProject Video games|tf=Nintendo}}. Also canonicalizes redirects to {{WikiProject Video games}} on the pages it edits for this reason, since it's editing them anyway.

For all pages in Category:Film articles using old needs infobox parameter, replace the needs infobox parameter with needs-infobox, remove the obsolete importance parameter, and canonicalize redirects for {{Film}}.

Replace {{Film needs cast section}}, {{Filmimage}}, and {{Film needs synopsis}} (and redirects) with {{Film}} with appropriate needs-X parameters. Also, perform some cleanup to {{Film}} on pages edited for this reason.

Replace the obsolete {{Infobox Film}} website, imdb_id, and amg_id parameters with {{official}}, {{imdb title}}, and {{amg movie}} in the External links section, respectively.

Replace the obsolete {{Infobox Television}} imdb_id and ttv_com_id parameters with {{imdb title}}, and {{tv.com}} in the External links section, respectively.

Perform various tasks at the request of the affected WikiProjects:

• Add or remove banners on a specific set of pages (e.g. pages in a category, pages transcluding a template).
• Adjust banner parameters, particularly assessments and task forces.
• Fix banner shells on pages edited for the above reasons.

Create redirects from isotopes for WP:WikiProject Elements.

Move date articles (e.g. February 12, 2005) in Category:Days in 2003 and Category:Days in 2005 from article space to subpages of Portal:Current events.

Create redirects from titles with the correct (but not well supported) Romanian S-comma and/or T-comma diacritics to the existing titles using S-cedilla and/or T-cedilla.

Creates a graph showing article creation for a project.

Process pages with geocities.com or oocities.com links to revert oocities.com spam, add archiveurl for geocities cites on archive.org or webcitation.org, change archived geocities links to archive.org or webcitation.org, and tag unarchived geocities links with {{dead link}}.

Archive reviews at WP:Editor review.

Process pages linking to http://www.nr.nps.gov/:

• Replace links beginning with "http://www.nr.nps.gov/multiples/" with the corresponding link starting "http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/".
• Replace {{cite web}} templates with url http://www.nr.nps.gov/ with {{NRISref}}.
• Tag other {{cite web}} templates and non-{{cite web}} links with {{NRIS dead link}}.

Tag talk pages with {{Reliable sources for medical articles}} when they meet the criteria laid out by WP:WPMED.

Remove {{Catwikiproject}} after Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 November 4#Template:Catwikiproject

Update GA=yes and FC=yes to {{dyktalk}} as appropriate.