User:AntiRedirBot
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[edit] alert
all edits from this bot were accdental. I didn't know i was in the bot account. :( --AntiRedirBot 00:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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This user account is a bot operated by Andrew Hampe (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. |
This bot is not being used at all right now as it is not approved, and the specs are still being written.
[edit] Draft Spec:
[edit] Version 1
Name: AntiRedirBot
Full Name: Anti-Redirect Bot
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Manually Assisted
Programming Language(s): AutoWikiBrowser
Function Summary: Detects a redirect page, checks what links to it, and edits links to go to the right place. Also detects double redirects and corrects the redirect pages to go to the right place.
Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous
Edit rate requested: 5-15 edits per minute
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N
Function Details: The bot will detect redirects in three ways (In the order given): First, it will check for double redirects by monitoring Special:DoubleRedirects. Second, it will monitor page moves on Special:Log. Second, when either the operator tells it to, or it runs out of work to do, it will get a random redirect from Special:Randomredirect. When the bot detects a redirect (using one of the methods above), it will check what links to the redirect, compile a list of link edits to do, then ask the person running the bot to approve either the whole list, or approve them one by one. Then the bot will run through the list, making the edits. After the bot has finished making the approved edits, the bot will go back and tags the redirect noting that it was checked, with the date, then go to search for another redirect to check.
