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User:Cewbot

Cewbot

This user is a bot
(talk · contribs)
Operator	kanashimi
Author	kanashimi
Approved?	Approved
Flagged?	Yes
Task(s)	Working at bot requests.
Edit rate	12 per minute
Edit period(s)	Periodically
Automatic or manual?	Automatic
Programming language(s)	JavaScript
Exclusion compliant?	Yes
Source code published?	Yes
Emergency shutoff-compliant?	Yes

Userboxes This user is an editoronWikidata.

This user account is a bot that uses wikiapi, operated by kanashimi (talk). It is used to make repetitive automatedorsemi-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.

Press the "Stop" link of task listtostop individual task. The robot will stop when the current batch has been processed, which is usually two or three hundred pages. Pressing the block button on the left will block the robot directly. However, pressing the left button will stop ALL operations, including other tasks.

Feel free to provide any special cases for testing, and please help to check for errors. If you have suggestions for improving any of the output of bot, please go to the talk page and suggest changes.

I'm not good at English. Please help me to correct any grammatical errors. If the bot makes any trouble, or you have any ideas, please let me know as soon as possible.

This bot runs on Wikimedia Toolforge. It runs on the cewbot tool account (k8s-status · k8s grafana). 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.

Cewbot task list[edit]

#	Task	Status	Note
en:1	Convert interlanguage link templates with local article to wikilinks	weekly «Stop»	@enwiki, also help bot requests
en:2	Update the section counts and article assessment icons for all levels of Wikipedia:Vital articles.	daily «Stop»	@enwiki
en:3	Maintain the template {{Vital article}} in the talk pages.	daily «Stop»	@enwiki
en:4	To inform of the article's PROD eligibility.	daily «Stop»	@enwiki
en:5	Normalizing {{Multiple issues}}	weekly «Stop»	@enwiki
en:6	Fixing broken anchors	continuous «Stop»	@enwiki
en:7	Sorting category of Thai names	weekly «Stop»	@enwiki
en:8	Maintaining challenge templates on corresponding pages.	daily «Stop»	@enwiki
en:9	Updating all levels of Wikipedia:Vital people.	no consensus	@enwiki
en:10	Create lists for w:en:Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages and for GA, FL	daily «Stop»	@enwiki
en:11	Generate topic list for discussion pages	continuous «Stop»	@enwiki
en:12	Maintain {{WikiProject banner shell}}	regularly «Stop»	@enwiki

Tasks[edit]

Convert interlanguage link templates with local article to wikilinks[edit]

• Approved: When there is a interlanguage link template existing link, convert it to an internal link.
• The task will check every interlanguage link template (e.g., {{illm}}) of Category:Interlanguage link template existing link, and convert the template if there is an existing local article to wikilinks. If there are many templates that can not be converted automatically, then the task will generate an error report at last.
• Report: User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix
• Source codeonGitHub

Maintain {{WikiProject banner shell}} and vital articles[edit]

• Maintaining {{WikiProject banner shell}} in the talk pages and updating all levels of Wikipedia:Vital articles.
• Approved: Update the section counts and article assessment icons for all levels of Wikipedia:Vital articles. Per this BOTREQ.
• Approved: Maintain {{Vital article}} in the talk pages.
• Approved: Maintain {{WikiProject banner shell}} in the talk pages. Implement WP:PIQA + Merge {{VA}} into {{WPBS}}. See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 May 17#Template:Vital article.
• Configuration: User:Cewbot/log/20200122/configuration
• Report: Wikipedia:Database reports/Vital articles update report
• Source codeonGitHub

To inform of the article's PROD eligibility[edit]

• Approved: To inform of the article's PROD eligibility.
• Base on Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 80#A heads up for AfD closers re: PROD eligibility when approaching NOQUORUM
• Configuration: User:Cewbot/log/20200206/configuration
• Source codeonGitHub

Normalize multiple issue templates[edit]

• Normalize {{Multiple issues}}: Condense multiple maintenance templates into {{Multiple issues}}, and extract single maintenance template from {{Multiple issues}}.
• Approved: Normalize template: Multiple_issues.
• Configuration: User:Cewbot/log/20150916/configuration
• Source codeonGitHub

Fix broken anchor[edit]

• Approved: Fix broken anchor.
• Configuration: User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration
• Source codeonGitHub
• The bot also notify broken anchors in the talk page via {{Broken anchors}}. See also {{R from incorrect name}}, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WildBot 3, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WildBot 7

I don't want the bot to modify my archives!

Please use {{bots|optout=anchor-fixing}}, and the bot will skip the page.

See also

1. Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Avoiding_broken_section_links, Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken section anchors
2. Fixing broken section link or redirectbyUser:Dexbot
3. Fix broken linksbyUser:FrescoBot
4. Identification of broken #section linksbyUser:WildBot#What are broken #section links?
5. Fixing broken anchor linksbyUser:BrokenAnchorBot
6. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SteveBot 5

Sorting category of Thai names[edit]

• Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 82#Category sorting for Thai names
• Approved: Sorting category of Thai names.
• Source codeonGitHub
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand/Nonbiographical pages transcluding Thai name categories

Generate topic list for discussion pages: Commons:Bots/Work requests[edit]

• Approved: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Cewbot 11
• User:Cewbot/log/20170915/configuration
• Source code: 20170915.topic list.jsonGitHub

Bot requests[edit]

I also help bot requests.

WikiProject Assessment banner replacement[edit]

• Bot requests: Template:WikiProject Investment → Template:WikiProject Finance
• report: User:Cewbot/log/20170828
• search and replace wikitextonGitHub - source code

Framework[edit]

framework: wikiapi / CeJS MediaWiki module

runtime system: node.js, JScript

Some Wikipedia bot examples using MediaWiki module of CeJS library

The User agent is starting with CeL/ when it's running under node.js. API feature usage

2024-07-12 6:9:55 UTC+0: 500 pages processed[edit]

Normalize {{Multiple issues}}

500 pages processed, 499 pages have not changed, 3 min elapsed.

• First, it takes 10 s to get 500 pages.

1. Separation of powers 2 min elapsed, finished at 6:9:15