User:VoABot

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[edit] About VoABot

This user account is a bot operated by Voice of All (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.

The point of this bot is to keep WP:PP updated and to archive fulfilled/denied WP:RFPP requests.

[edit] Main Tasks

A) This bot automatically updates the semi-protected, full-protected, move-protected, and the other (non-article/non-user/non-image) lists at WP:PP. It extracts the data, hourly, from the protection log and page data and then lists/delists protected pages. Every half hour mark (i.e. "2:30" etc...) it checks for pages to delist and at the beginning of each hour it checks for pages to list.
- This is deprecated. I might try to work on svn to improve the new special pages sorting and close WP:PP.

B) This bot automatically cleans up WP:RfPP. It makes it so that each "current" section can have no more than 3 consecutive 6+ hour old fullfilled/denied requests. They are moved to the fullfilled/denied section, which can only have no more that 15 requests unless they are less than 12 hours old. The extra ones are removed. Additionally, entries with certain formatting mistakes are fixed.

C) This bot also automatically archives completed WP:CHU requests. 24 hour old completed request are automatically archived. A new archive is created when the current on surpasses 100k in size. 2-3 day old rejected request (per clear wording or template/icon use) are archived. This will run a few time per day.

[edit] Other Tasks

A) If an admin protected a non-user/user talk page without a summary, it will not be listed on WP:PP. Such admins will automatically be notified. It will re-add this warning if it is deleted too quickly, since it only checks a)how long ago the protection was and b)if the message is already there. It will not "know" if someone removed it.

B) This bot keeps the list of admins JS list variable up to date at User:VoABot/adminlist.js. This avoids slower and more server using HTTP request checks when users get history stats from User:Voice of All/History/monobook.js. This is used by this bot for RfPP clearing and by VoABot II as the whitelist.

C) This bot keeps the list of bots JS list variable up to date at User:VoABot/botlist.js. This avoids slower and more server using HTTP request checks when users get history stats from User:Voice of All/History/monobook.js.