User:Chris G Bot

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This user account is a bot operated by Chris G (talk).

It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

Chris G Bot
Chris G Bot (Talk · Contribs)
Toolserver server rack at Kennisnet (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Operator:	Chris G (talk · contribs)
Approved?	Yes
Flagged?	Yes
Task/s:	Updating Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD.
Edit rate:	1 a day
Edit period/s:	Once a day
Automatic or manual?	Automatic
Programming language/s:	Perl, using Perlwikipedia.
Source code published?	yes, help your self!
Other information:	This bot is hosted on the Toolserver.

Chris G Bot (talk · contribs) is run by Chris G (talk · contribs). The bot updates Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD with the content in Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia, it runs once a day. The bot is approved (see here).

[edit] How this bot works

For the non-programmers (and the programmers who don't want to read through the source code (even though it's got lots of comments)) below is the steps that this bot goes through to perform its daily tasks:

Start
Login
Get text from Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia
Sort through text to find articles for deletion and add them to a list
Sort through list and remove articles already on Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD
Get the dates from the remaining articles on the list
Add these Articles to the top of Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD
Make a list of articles that are not on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia but are on Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD
Remove these articles from Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD
Shutdown