User:OverlordQBot/BRFA2

This user account is a bot operated by OverlordQ (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.
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Bot Info

Problems

If the bot makes an edit when it shouldn't have, or it makes a corrupted edit, please notify OverlordQ making sure to include the page and link to the revision.

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Bot Request

Operator: OverlordQ

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (Semi-Supervised)

Programming Language(s): Perl

Function Summary: Replacement for MartinBotIV for resorting text on Wikipedia:Sandbox,Wikipedia:Introduction, or other pages which need regularly reset.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Continuous

Edit rate requested: 1 edit(s) per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details:

Reset Wikipedia:Sandbox every 6 hours or immediately if header is vandalized.
Reset Wikipedia:Introduction every 30 minutes or immediately if header is vandalized.

Technical Information

Architecture

Programming Language: Perl
Libraries Used: POE (Component::IRC Component::IRC::Plugin::Connector Component::Client::HTTP Component::Client::Keepalive), HTTP::Cookies, HTTP::Request::Common, XML::LibXML

Conditions

In order for the bot to classify replacement, one of the following conditions must be met:

The edit changes the text of the introduction header
Text is added before the introduction header
The hard reset delay is reached.

Awards

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		Great job cleaning the Sbox, you would have been a worthy opponent for User:DrZoidberg! Cheers,Je t Lover (Report a mistake) 22:38, 15 October 2007 (UTC)