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 | This user account is a bot operated by A930913 (talk). It is used to make repetitive automatedorsemi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space. Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it. |
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| This user is a bot | |
|---|---|
| (talk · contribs) | |
| Operator | A930913 |
| Author | A930913 |
| Approved? | Yes, BRFA |
| Flagged? | Yes |
| Task(s) | Inform editors that they may have broken the matching brackets on a page |
| Edit rate | ~10/hour |
| Edit period(s) | Continually |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
| Programming language(s) | Python |
| Exclusion compliant? | Yes |
| Source code published? | If someone wants it, bug me to release it. |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | Yes |
| Other information | BracketBot is run from the Wikimedia Laboratories. |
BracketBot checks all edits to see if all open brackets ({[< have matching close brackets >]}), and informs the editor that their edit may have broken some markup if there is a mismatch. In order to reduce false positives, it will not message the editor if one of these conditions is met:
If it has to create a talk page for the user, it will {{welcome}} them.
Opt out – the bot will ignore your edits.
Opt in – the bot will resume watching your edits.
Show opt out list – view a list of user pages of users whom the bot will ignore.
To explicitly disable notification on a single specific edit, place "!nobot!" anywhere in the edit summary.
Add {{NoBracketBot}} <!-- This page contains deliberate unpaired brackets. BracketBot should ignore. --> to the page.
Opt in - the bot will notify you under a daily header.
Opt out - the bot will notify you under a monthly header.
Show opt out list – view a list of user pages of users whom the bot will notify under a daily header.
The current template used is {{User:BracketBot/inform}}.
Currently, the live feed can be viewed at ##930913-ub connect. If it is not running, ping a930913.
Emergency bot shutoff button
Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
Non-administrators can report a malfunctioning bot to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.