A small (VERY VERY SMALL) bot working on behalf of the community, managed by User:Rich Farmbrough

Task 0						Create monthly clean up categories
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Task 7

Tasks

0: Creating needed monthly clean up categories

• BRFA - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot  Approved.

1: Helping the other bots to talk

• BRFA - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 1  Approved.

2: Housekeeping and cleaning

• BRFA - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 2  Approved.

3: Regression reporting

• BRFA - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 3 Speedily Approved.

4: Manage my BRFAs

• BRFA - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 4  Approved.

5: Update oldest backlog list at Category:Wikipedia backlog

• BRFA - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 5  Approved.

6: Update recent changes pages for projects

• BRFA - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 6 Speedily Approved.

7: Produce list of British Isles articles without images

• BRFA - Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Femto Bot 7  Approved.

Known bugs, issues, comments: by task number

0

• Issue Abnormal category trees.
• Feature also replaces parent cats.  Implemented
• Feature notify operator about parent cats replaced. Not now...
  • Use different template. Include HTML comment.  Implemented
• Feature mention a member in the summary.

1

• Note Bundled with task 4.

2

• Bug needs to clean up more white space when archiving  Fixed
• Feature now treats FB threads same as RF threads  Implemented
• Feature now treats certain other bot threads same as RF threads  Implemented
• Feature CPU intensive due to regexes, move to mini-parser  Implemented
• Feature archive stale bot reports from task 4.
• Feature separate "to do" list  Implemented
• Feature archive "to do" list
• Feature separate RFC archive

3

None reported.

4

• Bug An extra blank line before each new section needed  Fixed
• Feature to use knowledge about which bots are already approved.  Implemented I think.
• Feature to use knowledge about which bots are flagged.  Implemented
• Feature to use knowledge about which bots are nobots relevant (i.e. S.B.)  Implemented
• Bug BOTNAME/NUMBER  Fixed
• Bug Confusion about which page is which? (see SB 40)

5

• Feature Don't pass beyond "now". (Be great if this was needed.)  Implemented
• Feature check behind as well as in front (for resurrected categories).

6

• Bug removing what it added.  Fixed
• Feature can do talk pages too.  Implemented
• Feature can do large lists.  Implemented
• Feature minimize page writes for multi-page projects.
• Feature config page on WP
• Feature upgrade for massive projects.
• Feature allow sub-projects and task-forces.

7

• Bug accents, e.g. Asanté Academy of Chinese Medicine  Fixed
• Bug false positives: urls.  Fixed
• Bug false negatives: urlencoding  Fixed
• Feature select by geographical area  Implemented
• Feature link to Geograph.co.uk  Implemented
• Feature exclude articles with images  Implemented
• Feature deal with off-shore and estuarine locations  Implemented
• Feature sort items on each page alphabetically.  Implemented
• Feature include Ireland, IOM, Jersey and Guernsey.
• Feature include Irish national grid.
• Feature follow redirects.  Implemented
• Feature update only mode.  Implemented
• Feature interim result caching.  Implemented
• Feature speed increase of processing I
• Feature speed increase of processing II
• Feature run on demand
• Feature on-wiki on-off switch.  Implemented
• Feature retry failed API calls.  Implemented
• Feature identify out-of-spec changes in numbers of images added/deleted.
• Feature log runs.  Implemented
• Feature recursive exploration.  Implemented
• Feature include secondary co-ordinates.  Implemented
• Feature number lists.  Implemented
• Feature update counter.

Requests for improvement: by task number

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