 | Thisuser account is abot operated byThe Earwig (talk). It is used to make repetitiveautomated orsemi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with thebot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevantrequest for approval can be seenhere. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, pleaseblock it. |
 | Thisbot runs onWikimedia Toolforge. Administrators: If this bot needs to be blocked due to a malfunction, please remember to disable autoblocks so that other Toolforge bots are not affected. |
 | How to stop the bot: To stop an individual task (requires autoconfirmed), go toUser:EarwigBot/Tasks, find the task, and click "Stop". If you need to stopall tasks, admins can usethis link to block the bot. I would appreciate it if you notify me onmy talk page after doing either of these. |
EarwigBot is abot operated byThe Earwig, written inPython. The bot handles a wide variety of tasks, many forWikiProject Articles for creation. A full list can be found below. Its source code ispublished (with separateplugins). Please direct any questions about this bot or its operation tomy talk page.
The bot's userspace contains some content related to mycopyvio detector tool, which formerly ran as a part of the bot. SeeUser:EarwigBot/Copyvios.
| Task | Name | Status | Source? | Shutoff | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AfC copyvio bot | BRFA (Done) | Yes | Done (Start) | Reported possiblecopyright violations inArticles for creation submissions (formerly toUser:EarwigBot/AfC copyvios, later with{{AfC suspected copyvio}}). Replaced bya web tool. |
| 2 | AfC statistics bot | BRFA (Ongoing) | Yes | Running (Stop) | UpdatesWikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Statistics hourly, featuringpending and recently declined or accepted submissions. |
| 3 | AfC category maintenance bot | BRFA (Ongoing) | Yes | Running (Stop) | Creates daily, monthly, and yearly categories atCategory:AfC submissions by date. Runs daily at midnight UTC, creating categories three days in advance. |
| 4 | {{WikiProject Russian History}} removal | BRFA (Done) | No | Done (Start) | Removed duplicate instances of{{WikiProject Russian History}}, per thisBOTREQ. |
| 5 | Category:Undated AfC submissions cleanup | BRFA (Ongoing) | Yes | Running (Stop) | Timestamps pages inCategory:Undated AfC submissions to clear the category. Runs weekly on Sundays. (Task 7 has been merged into this task.) |
| 6 | WP:USPE WikiProject Tagging | BRFA (Done) | No | Done (Start) | Tagged articles that were within the scope ofWikiProject Presidential Elections with{{WikiProject United States presidential elections}}. |
| 8 | AfC category delinking | BRFA (Ongoing) | Yes | Running (Stop) | Delinks mainspace categories (and templates transcluding categories) from pages inCategory:Declined AfC submissions. Runs weekly on Mondays. |
| 9 | WrongMIME type tagging | BRFA (Done) | No | Done (Start) | Tagged files whose extensions did not agree with theirMIME types with{{rename media}}. Made unnecessary as MediaWiki now requires file extensions to match their MIME types. |
| 10 | {{DYK talk}} deprecation | BRFA (Done) | No | Done (Start) | Merged{{DYK talk}} into{{ArticleHistory}}. |
| 11 | {{catmore}} replacement | BRFA (Withdrawn) | No | Stopped (Start) | Would have replaced transclusions of{{main}} in the category namespace with{{catmore}}. |
| 12 | BLP tagging | BRFA (Ongoing) | Yes | Running (Stop) | Adds|blp=yes to{{WPBS}} on talk pages of living people when necessary. It runs weekly on Tuesdays. |
| 13 | Image display resizing | BRFA (Done) | Yes | Done (Start) | Corrected upscaled portraits in{{Infobox person}}. Made unnecessary by improved image handling in infoboxes and MediaWiki. |
| 14 | WikiProject tagging | BRFA (Ongoing) | Yes | Running (Stop) | Tags talk pages of articles withWikiProject banners by request. All tagging runs are started manually, and require consensus from the WikiProject. Both lists of pages and list of categories (subcategories included or not included) can be tagged. The bot also has the option of auto-assessing the banner it is adding based on other banners on the talk page. Request atUser talk:The Earwig. |
| 15 | {{Infobox criminal}} parameter renaming | BRFA (Done) | No | Done (Start) | Replaced deprecated parameters in{{Infobox criminal}}. |
| 16 | Book-related WikiProject notification | BRFA (Done) | No | Done (Start) | NotifiedWikiProjects withWikipedia Books aboutrecent book modifications. |
| 17 | {{Infobox ship image}} cleanup | BRFA (Done) | No | Done (Start) | RemovedFile:No Photo Available.svg from{{Infobox ship image}}. |
| 18 | FEED daily page creation | BRFA (Done) | No | Done (Start) | Created daily pages forWP:FEED, likeWikipedia:Requests for feedback/2010 July 2, before the project was shut down. |
| 19 | DRN clerk bot | BRFA (Done) | Yes | Done (Start) | Carried out clerking tasks for thedispute resolution noticeboard (managing the{{DR case status}} template, leaving notices (with{{DRN-notice}} and{{DRN stale notice}}) as cases develop, and updating{{DRN case status}}). |
| 20 | {{Infobox station}} merging | BRFA (Done) | Yes | Done (Start) | Replaced{{Infobox China station}} and{{Infobox Japan station}} with{{Infobox station}} following two template discussions (China,Japan) and aprevious BRFA. |
| 21 | Synonym authorities | BRFA (BRFA) | Yes | Running (Stop) | Correct mismatched synonym authorities in taxon articles created byQbugbot |
