User:Navibot
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This user account is a bot operated by johndburger (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. |
This bot is still under development. The intent is that it find missing disambiguation entries and add them to the appropriate DAB page.
Here's an example of the kind of edit I hope the bot will be able to make. It discovered that Atmosphere (disambiguation) did not yet point to Atmosphere (album). I made the actual edit, but I think the bot will eventually be able to determine:
- How to style the entry—in this case, using italics, just as in the target article.
- A short descriptor to attach to the entry—in this case extracted from the target's lead sentence.
- Where in the disambiguation page to place the new entry—this might be a little tougher for dab pages with sections, but the bot will usually just place the new entry at the end of the list, as I did in this example.
I have the code working to find candidate missing entries, now I'm writing the hard part. Comments are welcome on the bot's talk page.
