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- June 19 2005: Account created, bot testing begun.
- First task: Populating country template arrays for Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template.
- Starting from United Nations list. Downloaded templates which point to flags. Built database of names, flags, and abbreviations.
- Template array being initialized by bot which does nothing if a template exists, and uses usual putPage delays (currently configured to 61 seconds).
- First task: Populating country template arrays for Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template.
- June 23 2005: Most UN countries initialized. Various sources combined. Initialized table for finding ISO codes when a country name is known. Filling in gaps. (SEWilco 04:18, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC))
- June 24 2005: All ISO countries defined. All non-obsolete FIFA countries defined. List of FIFA country codes converted to {{country}} format. Next will do conversion of existing ISO templates (ie, United Nations member states list) with 120-second put_throttle. (SEWilco 02:55, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC))
- June 26 2005: ISO and many non-ISO countries updated. Converted Major League Baseball rosters to {{flagicon}} format. (SEWilco 00:24, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC))
- June 30 2005: Quiescent. (SEWilco 1 July 2005 03:03 (UTC))
- July 3 2005: Testing references helper. (SEWilco 3 July 2005 23:20 (UTC))
- July 7 2005: Manually used as helper to upgrade footnotes/References in various articles. Converting inline external links and others to Wikipedia:Footnote3 format. (SEWilco 7 July 2005 06:04 (UTC))
- July 29 2005: Standardizing some stub categories. (SEWilco 20:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC))
- August 1 2005: Renaming obsolete Template:flag2 with creator's approval. (SEWilco 19:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC))
- August 13 2005: Replacing misuse of {{main}} below article top with {{see details}}. (SEWilco 08:26, 13 August 2005 (UTC))
- August 13 2005: Orphaning deleted {{seemain}} (SEWilco 15:39, 13 August 2005 (UTC))
- August 17 2005: Crosslinking a couple dozen Cat:Images of CITY,STATE categories. (SEWilco 05:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC))
- August 23 2005: Reversing former misuse of {{main}} back from {{see_details}}. (SEWilco 00:54, 24 August 2005 (UTC))
- August 25 2005: Orphaning deleted {{seemain}}. (SEWilco 18:24, 25 August 2005 (UTC))
- September 14 2005: Rebuilding improperly deleted categories for Washington, D.C.. (SEWilco 23:07, 14 September 2005 (UTC))
- September 30 2005: Inserting CFRU notices for WP:CFD of cat:Images by country. (SEWilco 15:16, 30 September 2005 (UTC))
- October 4 2005: Populating Category:U.S. state capitals with more city cats. (SEWilco 16:50, 4 October 2005 (UTC))
- November 7 2005: Converting citation templates to consolidated versions. (SEWilco 19:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC))
- December 28 2005: Moving {{Infobox Country}} data out of country articles. (SEWilco 04:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC))
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