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Sambot
This user is a bot
(talk · contribs)
OperatorSam Korn (t)
Approved?Yes
Flagged?Yes
Task(s)See below
Edit rateMax 8 per minute
Edit period(s)Weekly
As required
Automatic or manual?Automatic
Programming language(s)PHP
Exclusion compliant?No
Source code published?Yes
Emergency shutoff-compliant?Yes

Sambot[1] is a bot operated by Sam Korn.

In case of bot malfunction, it can be turned off by any user by placing any text here. Alternatively, administrators can block the bot here. If you do, please let me know so that I can sort the problem out.

Some tasks are run from the toolserver.

Pillar

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Most tasks listed below run on the Pillar bot framework, written by X! and me. It is available at SourceForge. There is some (currently out-of-date) documentation available on the Toolserver. If you want any help with it or more information about it, please let me know and I'll be delighted to talk about it.

BRFAs

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Task Date of
approval
Frequency Source Task description
Sambot 2008-09-17 Weekly Update statistics in {{Infobox cricketer biography}} using statistics from CricketArchive
Sambot 2 2009-02-27 Once Replacing {{needs football biography infobox}} and {{needs television infobox}} with the appropriate fields in WikiProject banners.
Sambot 3 2009-03-09 Once Migrate obsolete fields in {{WikiProject Films}}
Sambot 4 2009-03-27 Monthly User:Sambot/Code/Egypt Tag pages in specified categories with {{WikiProject Egypt}}
Sambot 5 2009-03-31 Once User:Sambot/Code/Extlinkmigrate.php Migrate dead links to new link schema
Sambot 6 2009-04-10 Once User:Sambot/Code/Ships Create and populate ship launch categories (e.g. Category:1942 ships)
Sambot 7 2009-04-16 Once User:Sambot/Code/Aquatics Tag pages in specified categories with {{WP Swimming}}
Sambot 8 2009-04-17 Once User:Sambot/Code/Ships 2 Replace hard-coded templates on and categorise lists of ships
Sambot 9 2009-04-14 Once User:Sambot/Code/Baseball Migrate {{baseball-reference}} to {{baseballstats}}
Sambot 10 2009-04-22 Once User:Sambot/Code/Water polo Add work-groups to {{WP Swimming}}
Sambot 11 2009-04-30 Daily User:Sambot/Code/PUI Add or remove {{puic}} per WP:PUI. Edits performed by User:ImageTagBot
Sambot 12 2009-05-04 Daily User:Sambot/Code/Speedy images
User:Sambot/Code/FFD
Extend task 11 to also tag images for speedy deletion and those listed at WP:FFD. Edits performed by User:ImageTagBot
Sambot 13 2009-05-06 As required User:Sambot/Code/Assessment Automatically fill in article ratings in WikiProject banners
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  1. ^ The name is a homage to that king of Wikipedia bots, Rambot