BirthdayBot

This user account is a bot operated by ST47 (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. This bot does not yet have the approval of the community, or approval has been withdrawn or expired, and therefore shouldn't be making edits that appear to be unassisted except in the operator's or its own user and user talk space.
Administrators: if this bot is making edits that appear to be unassisted to pages not in the operator's or its own userspace, please block it.

Emergency bot shutoff button

Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning. (direct link)
Non-administrators can report a malfunctioning bot to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

PLEASE NOTE This bot is not yet approved to run. Please see the request for approval for further details and discussion.

General

BirthdayBot is a Wikipedia bot run by Extranet that primarily uses perl to do a number of tedious tasks at a faster rate than a human editor. The bot checks the calendar of birthdays for the current day, and sends either a birthday template, a first edit day template, or adminship anniversary template to that user's userpage. It will most likely be run on the m:Toolserver.

Running

The bot will be run temporarily by ST47 until Extranet gets a permanent toolserver account to run it.

Tasks

Checks the calendar of birthdays for the current day.
Sends either a birthday template, a first edit day template, or adminship anniversary template to that user's userpage.

Emergencies

If the bot seems to be malfunctioning, please block it. This will give both ST47 and Extranet time to diagnose/fix the problem.