User:BsoykaBot
 | This user account is a bot that uses Pywikibot, operated by Bsoyka (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. |
| This user is a bot | |
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| (talk · contribs) | |
| Status | Active |
| Operator | Bsoyka (talk · contribs) |
| Approved? | Yes |
| Flagged? | No |
| Automatic or manual? | Automatic |
| Programming language(s) | Python |
| Exclusion compliant? | Yes |
| Source code published? | Yes |
| Emergency shutoff-compliant? | Yes |
BsoykaBot is an account set aside to perform automated tasks here on the English Wikipedia. It is operated by Bsoyka and its source code is available on GitHub.
Emergency bot shutoff button
Administrators: Use this button if BsoykaBot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
Non-administrators can a malfunctioning bot to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
Excluding a page
BsoykaBot is exclusion-compliant. If you need to stop the bot from editing just one page, you can add {{Nobots|BsoykaBot}} to its wikitext. However, this should rarely, if ever, be necessary.
If this method fails, the bot may be malfunctioning. See the big red button above.
Tasks
| Task | BRFA status | Bot status | What's done and why | Source code |
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| 1: Fix PMC errors | Denied | Inactive | Would have removed PMC prefixes from the |pmc= parameter of CS1 citations to clean up CS1 errors
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GitHub |
| 2: Fix proxy URLs | Approved | Active, running once daily | Replaces proxy links from The Wikipedia Library with their non-proxied versions. Proxy links are truly only helpful to experienced editors who actually have access to The Wikipedia Library. For the vast majority of our users (readers), these links block access to crucial references and external links. A solution, if you desire access to proxied URLs from articles, is to use the Zotero browser extension, which can automatically redirect you through the TWL proxy when appropriate. | GitHub |
| 3: Fix NFL draft case | Approved | Active, running once daily, limited to 1,000 pages per run | Corrects miscapitalizations of "NFL draft" (instead of "NFL Draft") in wikilinks in articles per a request for comment | GitHub |