Welcome bot
Shane or anyone else who might know: Is there a bot that can welcome new users? That way people are instantly given the information they need to begin editing the wiki properly. Just curious. -- Joe Beaudoin 19:34, 22 March 2006 (CST)
Question: can we have some, er, examples of the kinds of things this bot will be doing?--The Merovingian (C - E) 20:02, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- Sure. Basically bots can fix common spelling errors, convert HTML to Wiki code -- some can even fix double redirects, if I can recall correctly. Essentially, bots are good at menial tasks so that editors can focus on more important matters. Wikipedia uses many of them (which is where Shane got the idea). -- Joe Beaudoin 20:07, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- I would be remiss in my duties if I did not point out that the actions of bots can also be reverted, as bots are seen the same way regular users are seen. -- Joe Beaudoin 20:20, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- I am uneasy about AI reliance, for obvious reasons :) --->How do we manually find double redirects?--The Merovingian (C - E) 20:09, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- Special:DoubleRedirects lists any that the software detects itself. Obviously, we don't need a bot for that issue, but for others it'll come in handy. -- Joe Beaudoin 20:20, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- I am sure there is a welcome bot. If not, I can write one. I am just learning the code now. I go by example :) The bot I been working on today is a bot for "Tasks". What it does is go through the "task" catagories and updates a template to what needs to be done. It can be set for any category, and I have made it so that is the only thing it does. Listing items for cleanup, expantion, and etc. I need to test it, joe, I will send you an e-mail on the spefics. Wikipedia:Bots is a good place to look for bots that run Wikipedia. Alot of these are closed source so I have to bug the author except the one I got. Open Source. --Shane (T - C - E) 22:32, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- Just looked for a welcome bot. Can't do because the bot would have to run every mintue to see if there is a new user. It take up a lot of resources. --Shane (T - C - E) 22:34, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- Is it possible for the bot to activate only when the newuser log is updated? Or we can have it run every 6 hours. -- Joe Beaudoin 22:44, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- Just looked for a welcome bot. Can't do because the bot would have to run every mintue to see if there is a new user. It take up a lot of resources. --Shane (T - C - E) 22:34, 22 March 2006 (CST)
- I am sure there is a welcome bot. If not, I can write one. I am just learning the code now. I go by example :) The bot I been working on today is a bot for "Tasks". What it does is go through the "task" catagories and updates a template to what needs to be done. It can be set for any category, and I have made it so that is the only thing it does. Listing items for cleanup, expantion, and etc. I need to test it, joe, I will send you an e-mail on the spefics. Wikipedia:Bots is a good place to look for bots that run Wikipedia. Alot of these are closed source so I have to bug the author except the one I got. Open Source. --Shane (T - C - E) 22:32, 22 March 2006 (CST)