User:N-Bot

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This user account is a bot operated by Nickptar (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.

Its contributions.

Currently working on: nothing

[edit] Purpose

It transforms links-to-redirects-to-lists to links-to-sections-of-lists. In other words:

• Some lists, like List of minor Star Wars characters, have redirects for individual items in the lists, e.g. Captain Panaka.
• Lots of articles link to these redirects - 7 mainspace pages linked to Captain Panaka (before the bot was used on that list).
• This can be highly annoying, because those redirects go to the top of the page.
• Therefore, this bot turns [[Captain Panaka]], wherever it exists, into [[List of minor Star Wars characters#Panaka, Captain|Captain Panaka]]. And so on and so forth, for each list it runs on.

I've been finding fodder for it by looking under Category:Lists of fictional things.

I saw your bot repairing links redirecting to lists etc on some of the articles in my watchlist, it seems to be functioning perfectly. Se, here you go: Jacoplane 23:46, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Code

N-Bot is a rather ad-hoc Perl script. The source is available here: listredir.pl.

[edit] Completed pages

1. List of Star Wars races (finished 6 August 2005)
2. Minor droids in Star Wars (finished 6 August 2005)
3. List of minor Star Wars characters (finished 6 August 2005)
4. Minor bounty hunters in Star Wars (finished 6 August 2005)
5. List of Mandalorians (finished 6 August 2005)
6. List of minor Star Wars Jedi characters (finished 7 August 2005)
7. Minor residents of Tatooine (finished 7 August 2005)
8. List of Star Wars creatures (finished 7 August 2005)
9. List of Star Wars cities (finished 7 August 2005)
10. Minor vehicles in Star Wars (finished 7 August 2005)
11. List of Ancient Jedi (finished 8 August 2005)
12. List of minor Star Wars villains (finished 8 August 2005)
13. List of Star Wars planets (C-D) (finished 8 August 2005)
14. List of Star Wars weapons (finished 8 August 2005)
15. List of minor Foundation universe planets (finished 9 August 2005)
16. Minor Discworld concepts (finished 9 August 2005)
17. Minor Discworld characters (finished 9 August 2005)
18. Ankh-Morpork City Watch (finished 9 August 2005)
19. History Monks (finished 9 August 2005)
20. Minor Hufflepuffs (finished 27 August 2005)
21. Minor members of the Order of the Phoenix (finished 27 August 2005)
22. Minor Ministry officials in the Harry Potter books (finished 27 August 2005)
23. Minor Hogwarts teachers (finished 27 August 2005)
24. Minor Ravenclaws (finished 27 August 2005)
25. Gryffindors in Harry Potter's year (finished 27 August 2005)
26. Hogwarts ghosts (finished 27 August 2005)
27. Minor Slug Club members (finished 27 August 2005)
28. Minor Slytherins (finished 27 August 2005)
29. Portraits in Hogwarts (finished 27 August 2005)
30. Minor Harry Potter Beasts (finished 27 August 2005)
31. The Hogwarts Founders (finished 3 September 2005)
32. Hogwarts Houses (finished 3 September 2005)
33. List of spells in Harry Potter (finished 4 September 2005)
34. House-elf (finished 4 September 2005)
35. Harry Potter newspapers and magazines (finished 4 September 2005)
36. Knight Bus (finished 4 September 2005)
37. Ministry of Magic (finished 4 September 2005)
38. Minor characters associated with Quidditch (finished 5 September 2005)
39. List of recurring characters from The Simpsons (finished 5 September 2005)
40. Recurring characters of Futurama (finished 5 September 2005)
41. Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (finished 5 September 2005)
42. Races from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (finished 5 September 2005)
43. Magical objects in Harry Potter (finished 21 September 2005)
44. Khufu and Khafre (finished 2 November 2005)
45. List of minor Star Wars Jedi knights (finished 14 June 2006)
46. List of recurring robot characters from Futurama (finished 14 June 2006)
47. List of minor Star Wars Jedi masters (finished 14 June 2006)
48. List of Star Wars planets (T-V) (finished 14 June 2006)
49. List of minor Star Wars Rebel characters (finished 14 June 2006)
50. List of Star Wars planets (W-Z) (finished 15 June 2006)
51. List of minor Star Wars Jedi apprentices (finished 15 June 2006)
52. List of Star Wars planets (A-B) (finished 15 June 2006)
53. List of Star Wars Separatist characters (finished 15 June 2006)
54. List of Star Wars planets (C-D) (finished 15 June 2006)
55. List of Star Wars planets (E-G) (finished 15 June 2006)
56. List of Star Wars planets (H-J) (finished 15 June 2006)
57. List of Star Wars planets (K-L) (finished 15 June 2006)
58. List of Star Wars planets (M-N) (finished 15 June 2006)
59. List of Star Wars planets (O-Q) (finished 15 June 2006)
60. List of Star Wars planets (R-S) (finished 16 June 2006)
61. List of minor Foundation universe characters (finished 16 June 2006)
62. Star Wars galaxy (finished 16 June 2006)
63. List of minor Foundation universe planets (finished 16 June 2006)
64. List of Dune planets (finished 16 June 2006)
65. Commonwealth Saga (finished 16 June 2006)
66. List of one-time characters from The Simpsons (finished 16 June 2006)
67. List of minor Star Wars characters (finished 16 June 2006)
68. List of Star Wars systems (finished 16 June 2006)
69. Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (finished 16 June 2006)
70. List of Star Wars cities (finished 17 June 2006)
71. List of minor Star Wars organizations (finished 17 June 2006)
72. Discworld characters (finished 19 July 2006)
73. Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (finished 22 July 2006)
74. Boeing 747 (finished 14 August 2006)
75. Airbus A340 (finished 14 August 2006)
76. Boeing 737 (finished 14 August 2006)
77. Boeing 757 (finished 14 August 2006)
78. Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (finished 15 August 2006)
79. Boeing 777 (finished 15 August 2006)
80. List of animals in The Simpsons (finished 15 August 2006)
81. Apple Developer Tools (finished 2 October 2006)