Janitorial Work

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Been on a little New Year's cleaning spree, doing janitorial stuff in bot mode. Broken and Double redirects are gone, files are categorised, I'm now working through all the fork pages and making sure articles link to the actual article they want (where appropriate) rather than the fork. Any suggestions for stuff to do after that, assuming I don't get bored?

    DalekEXTERMINATE17:27, 3 January 2011

    Have a beer, I'd say. The only other thing I do in "bot mode" is click random page and make sure everything has sections so we're not faced with a wall of text for most articles.

      Scarlet A.pngpostate17:29, 3 January 2011

      Cool, beer it is. I actually managed to run out of meaningless tasks! :P

        DalekEXTERMINATE17:31, 3 January 2011

        Also, if you want any mass re-categorising doing, let me know.

          DalekEXTERMINATE19:21, 3 January 2011

          I've spotted that there is some redundancy with the nav templates and categories; i.e., there's a category in the article even though it's already transcluded in a template. If you spot any (the current version of HotCat works excellently for this) remove them.

            Scarlet A.pngpostate19:23, 3 January 2011
             

            But then what will my bot do?

              -- Nx / talk19:32, 3 January 2011

              You have a bot that does that?

                Scarlet A.pngpostate19:33, 3 January 2011

                Yey, a bot doing that would be good. How does this sound for a super action plan:

                a) Decide on all our nav templates. b) I'll go on a massive janitor spree and make sure they're all on the right pages. c) Run superbot to clear out any unneeded cats?

                  DalekEXTERMINATE19:35, 3 January 2011
                   

                  Pywikipedia's category.py can do a bunch of stuff, including renaming a category.

                    -- Nx / talk19:35, 3 January 2011
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                    Last edit: 20:01, 3 January 2011

                    Can't resist.

                    Couldn't someone write an extension or something similar that would let a sysop rename a category using ajax?

                    Elaboration:

                    1. get the category members from the api
                    2. for each, retrieve the wikitext, switch the old category name for new, get edittoken, save page
                    3. mark all the edits as bot, or if you wanted to get fancy, make a new log for it
                      Picon small.pngLiquid Blue19:57, 3 January 2011

                      Good to see you there Blue, how're you doing? Nice Christmas and New Year?

                        DalekEXTERMINATE19:58, 3 January 2011

                        Very nice, thanks! But...

                          Picon small.pngLiquid Blue20:03, 3 January 2011
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
                           
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