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This is a general purpose bot for upgrades to the data, especially so that it is in a format predictable enough to work well with SMW.<br/>
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This was a decidedly clunky hand built bot, written in late 2013 in PHP which offered only ''slightly'' more functionality that [[Special:ReplaceText]]. It was last used in January 2014.
Feel free to edit the below lists of repetitive tasks that could be best achieved through a bot:
 
  
 
==TO DO==
 
==TO DO==
This is for fairly well defined tasks:
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# <s>Standardising dates</s>
 
 
# Standardising Document Namespace
 
## Fixing doctypes
 
## Fixing dates
 
## Replacing "|source" with "|SourceURL, |SourceName, |SourceDetails"
 
  
 
==IDEAS==
 
==IDEAS==
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# Read and process the semantic data, e.g.
 
# Read and process the semantic data, e.g.
 
## To build pages (e.g. the coverpage)
 
## To build pages (e.g. the coverpage)
## To circumvent limitations in existing extensions
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## To circumvent limitations in existing extensions{{clarify}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
* [[user:UpgradeBot]] - for ongoing data updates
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* [[user:MaintenanceBot]] - Patrolling the site since July 2015
  
 
[[Category:Wikispooks Bots]]
 
[[Category:Wikispooks Bots]]

Latest revision as of 15:37, 30 October 2016

This was a decidedly clunky hand built bot, written in late 2013 in PHP which offered only slightly more functionality that Special:ReplaceText. It was last used in January 2014.

TO DO

  1. Standardising dates

IDEAS

This is for as yet poorly defined general ideas

  1. Read and process the semantic data, e.g.
    1. To build pages (e.g. the coverpage)
    2. To circumvent limitations in existing extensions[clarification needed]

See Also