AnomieBOT III

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Action	Count
Edits	36444
Edits+Deleted	37187
Pages deleted	181716
Users blocked	200
Users unblocked	19914

Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.

Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.

This user account is a bot operated by Anomie (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

Live status for all AnomieBOT tasks is available at Toolforge.

Before blocking this bot, please consider disabling the task in question instead (see #Emergency shutoff). If you want to block it anyway, the button to the left will do what you want.

Documentation edit

Technical details edit

AnomieBOT is written in Perl, using a custom API class to access the MediaWiki Action API. It uses SQLite or MySQL for persistent data storage.

In addition to the standard "bot" mode which will only run approved tasks, individual tasks may also be run in a "test" mode that logs proposed edits to the local filesystem instead of actually editing Wikipedia or in an "RFBA trial" mode that will automatically stop after a certain number of edits.

Source code is available at User:AnomieBOT/source. The source may be reused under the same terms as Perl, which is currently available under the GPL and/or the Artistic License; the text of the files posted here on-wiki may also be reused per Wikipedia's licensing for text contributions.

Emergency shutoff edit

Individual tasks may be stopped by writing any non-whitespace content to various pages under User:AnomieBOT III/shutoff/; see the task list below for the specific page corresponding to each task. Many tasks also link the appropriate page from their edit summaries.

Exclusion compliance edit

This bot is an exclusion compliant bot; see {{bots}} for details.

Bot accounts edit

AnomieBOT uses multiple accounts for its various tasks:

AnomieBOT (tasks | contribs) is a general-purpose bot account handling the majority of tasks.
AnomieBOT II (tasks | contribs) has the template editor flag, and will only run tasks that require rights granted by that group.
AnomieBOT III (tasks | contribs) is an adminbot.
MediationBot (tasks | contribs) formerly ran tasks for the now-defunct WP:Mediation Committee.
MedcabBot (tasks | contribs) formerly ran tasks for the now-defunct WP:Mediation Cabal.

Tasks edit

The full list of tasks for all AnomieBOT bots is at User:AnomieBOT/TaskList.

Current edit

Task	Disable	`{{bots}}`	Approval	Description
BrokenRedirectDeleter	Here	Y	Approved 2014-02-26 Supplemental: + 2017-05-22	Cleans up broken redirects: Attempted interwiki redirects are replaced with {{soft redirect}} Redirects broken due to a move of the target without leaving a redirect are updated, if possible. Other broken redirects are deleted if the following are true: The redirect has only 1 revision OR was created more than 4 days ago The redirect is not in the User or User talk namespaces The target page has no log entries less than 12 hours ago The redirect has 10 or fewer incoming links The bot is not excluded, e.g. with {{nobots}} When a broken redirect is deleted, any subpages, and the talk page (if any) and its subpages will be deleted, unless: The page is a talk page with an existing subject page The page is tagged with {{G8-exempt}} The page has more than 10 incoming links The bot is excluded, e.g. with {{nobots}} The parent subpage wasn't deleted Skipped redirects will be reported to User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects
POTDPageDeleter	Here	Y	Approved 2019-03-17	Delete Template:POTD protected/YYYY-MM-DD (per WP:CSD#G6) 30 days after the listed date, and remove the "See also" link from the corresponding Template:POTD/YYYY-MM-DD.

On demand edit

Task	Disable	`{{bots}}`	Approval	Description
MassDeleter	Here	N	Approved 2016-04-13	Performs mass deletions after consensus at XfD or other processes. Can also CSD associated talkpages and their subpages.

In development edit

Task	Disable	`{{bots}}`	Status	Description
DatedCategoryDeleterTest	Here	N	N/A, only edits bot's/owner's userspace. On hold	Investigation for whether a bot to G6 emptied dated maintenance categories would be useful. It will log to a subpage and we'll see how often it actually finds anything.

Awaiting approval edit

None at this time.

Past edit

Task	Disable	`{{bots}}`	Status	Description
SpamBlacklistBlocker	Here	N	Inactive 2023-07-17	Block IPs that hit certain URLs on the spam blacklist too frequently.
OldIPUnblocker	Here	Y	Completed 2019-05-20	Unblock non-range IPs blocked in 2008 or earlier, per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal about some indefinite IP blocks.
TFAProtector	Here	N	Inactive 2021-05-31	Apply pending changes protection to Today's Featured Article while it's on the main page. Currently won't do anything pending an RFC to determine whether the community wants this to continue past the trial that ended 2021-05-31.