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| Operator | theleekycauldron |
| Author | theleekycauldron |
| Approved? | yes |
| Programming language(s) | Python |
| Exclusion compliant? | No |
| Source code published? | yep |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | yep |
Howdy, I'mtheleekycauldron – I operateGalliumBot :) he handles the maintenance and update of various statistics and record pages forWikipedia:Did you know. I've been wanting to operate a bot for quite some time – this account has existed since February 2022 – but he's only been active since October 2022, when I finally pushed myself to finish up some of the scripts I'd been sitting on.
GalliumBot's pronouns are he/it, mainly becauseit's silly that some inanimate objects are referred to as "she". Might as well get in on the game. The name "Gallium" is a few puns rolled into single username:
Presumably, none of that is gonna stopTamzin from blocking it for violating thenaming policy.
approved tasks approval pending tasks userspace tasks
| no. | name | task | interval | first | discussion | brfa | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | darn | Detecting and logging modifications of DYK hooks | 1 hour | 00:25 | passed | approved | inactive |
| 2 | vandyke | UpdatingWikipedia:Did you know/Statistics and notifying nominators | 1 day | 03:27 | n/a | approved | active |
| 3 | proctor | UpdatingWikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of DYK promotions | 1 hour | 00:21 | n/a | approved | active |
| 4 | transfem | Moving nominations betweenWP:DYKN andWP:DYKNA | 5 minutes | rough | not started | inactive | |
| 5 | retro | Retranscluding lost DYK nominations | 1 hour | passed | not started | inactive | |
| 6 | prep set helper | Cleaning up hooks atTemplate:Did you know/Queue | 1 hour | not started | inactive | ||
| 7 | DYK protector | Move-protect bolded articles that appear on Did you know | 24 hours | passed | not started | inactive | |
| 8 | cupboard | Maintenance of theWikiCup | ? | passed | not started | inactive | |
| — | scope | Printing the bot's programmatic innards in its userspace | 1 hour | 01:22 | not necessary | active | |
| — | aftree | MaintainingUser:Theleekycauldron/fun/admin family tree | 1 day | 02:23 | not necessary | active | |
TheWikiCupBotanalyzer,resetter, anddistributor (cupboard) is an in-progress project to manage various facets of the WikiCup. It currently has no published source code.
TheDYKaddition andremovalnotary (darn) script detects modifications made toDid you know hooks when they are in thepreparation areas or Main Pagequeues. When those modifications are detected, they are logged at the article'snomination talk page – seeTemplate talk:Did you know nominations/Measure VY for an example of this. The source code can be found atUser:GalliumBot/darn/darn.py.
Themissingnominationsalvager (minos) script finds DYK nominations that are listed as pending, but are not transcluded toTemplate talk:Did you know andTemplate talk:Did you know/Approved. For now, it just lists 'em. The source code can be found atUser:GalliumBot/minos/minos.py. A list here is provided for convenience:
Total: 0
Thepromotioncounterto,ostensibly,rank (proctor) script maintainsWP:DYKPC, a record of DYK prep builders and the number of promotions they've made over their months and years of service. The code can be found atUser:GalliumBot/proctor/proctor.py. The proctor script also maintains several lists in GalliumBot's userspace:
Theretransclusionrobot (retro) script is an in-progress project to automatically retransclude lost DYK nominations to eitherWP:DYKN orWP:DYKNA. It currently has no published source code.
Thesourcecodepublishingexecutive (scope) script publicizes itself and all other currently active scripts being used by GalliumBot. It can be found atUser:GalliumBot/scope/scope.py.
Thetransclusionferrier andmover script is an in-progress project to shuttle nominations betweenWP:DYKN andWP:DYKNA. It currently has no published source code.
Theviewsanalyzer forDYKextraordinaire (vandyke) script updates the monthly tables and analytics pages ofWikipedia:Did you know/Statistics, collating and adjusting pageviews for articles during their Main Page appearance. Vandyke also notifies nominators when their hooks meet a certain viewcount threshold. The source code currently consists of three parts: