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Bot description
editDescription of the bot (per Wikipedia:Bots):
- The bot is run manually
- You can expect it to be run a few times a month for about 2 to 3 hours at a time.
- The bot is written in Python, using pywikipedia
- Ned Scott maintains this bot.
- Full description of what this bot does is listed below.
Bot tasks
editThe main tasks for this bot is to assist in redundant edits for WikiProject Digimon Systems Update and WikiProject List of Television Episodes. Such tasks may include:
- Basic text replacement
- For example, going through articles in Category:Digimon and finding common mistakes specific to digimon articles, such as proper placement of English and Japanese terms and names
- Updating links
- Category maintenance
- Template maintenance, such as going through articles and renaming a template parameter or adding one
- I try to avoid these changes in the first place, as it sort of defeats the purpose of a template to have to re-edit all the articles using the template