User:ClickBot - Wikipedia

This user account is a bot that uses AutoWikiBrowser, operated by ClickRick (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. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space.
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Documentation

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Technical details

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ClickBot is written in C#, developed using Visual C# Express. It runs as a custom plugin within the AutoWikiBrowser framework, which uses wikipedia's api.php interface.

Source code for any custom plugin code will be available before the bot is allowed to run in automated mode, though fully-supervised testing may occur before that happens. Each separate task may require specific settings; those will also be published.

Exclusion compliance

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This bot is an exclusion compliant bot as it runs as a plugin within AutoWikiBrowser.

Contacting the operator

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As noted above, this bot is operated by ClickRick. General comments can be left on my talk page, or you can talk to me live on IRC - I'm usually online while the bot is running (and often while it's not, too). Leaving a message on the bot's talk page will halt it until I intervene manually so please only do that if there is a problem, telling me which page the problem is on.

Tasks

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In development

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Per Template talk:Infobox UK place#Possible_bot_tasks, a number of tasks have been proposed and discussed, all of which will improve usage of {{Infobox UK place}}:

9. rename the civil_parish parameter to community_wales for all places where |country=Wales

It is noted that there are currently some 13,475 transclusions of that template.

Requests for approval

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None at this time.

In trial

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Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ClickBot 3:

5. change the static_image parameter, currently specified as [[File:filename.jpg|240px]], to the new static_image_name parameter, to be specified simply as filename.jpg (ditto for static_image_2)

~~6. set a default static_image_width to 240px, as per the template's documentation (ditto for static_image_2)~~

7. remove the specification of <small> style from static_image_caption and static_image_2_caption parameters, such that it can be done consistently in the template

8. add blank static_image_alt and static_image_2_alt parameters

Settings for task 3

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          <Name>;static_image_alt</Name>
          <Setting xsi:type="xsd:string">${alt1}&lt;!-- see [[WP:ALT]] --&gt;</Setting>
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        <anyType xsi:type="PrefsKeyPair">
          <Name>;static_image_2_name</Name>
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          <Name>;static_image_2_alt</Name>
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Approved

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None at this time.

Finished

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Per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ClickBot 2:

1. make the population parameter be numeric

2. move any non-numeric portions from existing population parameters to population_ref

Settings for task 2

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        <anyType xsi:type="PrefsKeyPair">
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          <Setting xsi:type="xsd:string">| population = ${pop}
| population_ref = ${ref1} ${ref2}</Setting>
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          <Name>:population</Name>
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~~3. make the area_total_sq_mi/area_total_km2 fields numeric~~

~~4. move any non-numeric portions from existing area_total_sq_mi/area_total_km2 parameters to area_footnotes~~