User:CorenANIBot

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This user account is a bot operated by Coren (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.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

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[edit] Function

CorenANIBot watches additions to specified pages (WP:AN/I and WP:AN are planned targets) for creation of new sections and, upon finding a new section, creates a new subpage named "<page page>/date/<header>" with the contents of that section and replaces the section with a transclusion of the new subpage garnished with links to watch, view (for permalinks) and edit that subpage specifically.

CorenANIBot will never try to move a section twice, or attempt to move a section whose subpage already exist.

[edit] Operation

The CorenANIBot is meant to function continuously, without direct human supervision.

[edit] Program

CorenANIBot is written in Perl and takes advantage of the new Mediawiki API for everything except page modifications.

[edit] Footnotes


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