User:AnomieBOT IV

Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.

This user account is a bot operated by Anomie (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. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space.
Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it.

Live status for all AnomieBOT tasks is available at Toolforge.

Before blocking this bot, please consider disabling the task in question instead (see #Emergency shutoff). If you want to block it anyway, the button to the left will do what you want.

Documentation

Technical details

AnomieBOT is written in Perl, using a custom API class to access the MediaWiki Action API. It uses SQLite or MySQL for persistent data storage.

In addition to the standard "bot" mode which will only run approved tasks, individual tasks may also be run in a "test" mode that logs proposed edits to the local filesystem instead of actually editing Wikipedia or in a "BRFA trial" mode that will automatically stop after a certain number of edits.

Source code is available at User:AnomieBOT/source. The source may be reused under the same terms as Perl, which is currently available under the GPL and/or the Artistic License; the text of the files posted here on-wiki may also be reused per Wikipedia's licensing for text contributions.

Emergency shutoff

Individual tasks may be stopped by writing any non-whitespace content to various pages under User:AnomieBOT IV/shutoff/; see the task list below for the specific page corresponding to each task. Many tasks also link the appropriate page from their edit summaries.

Exclusion compliance

This bot is an exclusion compliant bot; see {{bots}} for details.

Bot accounts

AnomieBOT uses multiple accounts for its various tasks:

AnomieBOT (tasks | contribs) is a general-purpose bot account handling the majority of tasks.
AnomieBOT II (tasks | contribs) has the template editor flag, and will only run tasks that require rights granted by that group.
AnomieBOT III (tasks | contribs) is an adminbot.
AnomieBOT IV (tasks | contribs) is not yet used.
CSD U6 Bot (tasks | contribs) tags expired drafts for CSD U6.
MediationBot (tasks | contribs) formerly ran tasks for the now-defunct WP:Mediation Committee.
MedcabBot (tasks | contribs) formerly ran tasks for the now-defunct WP:Mediation Cabal.

Tasks

The full list of tasks for all AnomieBOT bots is at User:AnomieBOT/TaskList.