Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-04-26/Technology report

Technology report

Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

Bot approvals
  • EarwigBot (Task 16) – The bot leaves notices on the talk pages of WikiProjects that have Wikipedia-Books
  • EarwigBot (Task 15) – The bot replaces the deprecated parameters |penalty= and |status= in transclusions of {{Infobox criminal}} with |conviction_penalty= and |conviction_status=, respectively.
  • FrescoBot (Task 5) – Put {{db-blanked}} on pages created and blanked by a single author
  • SmackBot (Task 25) – Delink dates per full-date unlinking bot, but in portal space only
  • SPPatrolBot – Notifies WikiProjects and creators of pages of being BLP prodded.
  • SmackBot (Task 26) – Move non-redirects from the old VfD space to AfD where no conflict is found.
  • RjwilmsiBot (Task 3) – CiteCompletion: a script that completes fields within citations to common English-language news sites on the English Wikipedia. It works by taking the news article URL from the Wikipedia article page, looking up the news page and extracting the missing details of the news article based on per-site rules. User:Rjwilmsi/CiteCompletion.
  • ZéroBot – Adding and correcting interwiki-links
  • SmackBot (Task 28) – Substitute templates that are documented as "always subst".

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