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Cerabot
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	Cerabot trawling the wiki for things to fix. How admirable?!
Operator	Ceradon
Author	Ceradon
Approved?	Yes
Flagged?	Yes
Edit rate	11 edits per day
Automatic or manual?	Automatic partially-supervised
Programming language(s)	Python
Exclusion compliant?	Yes
Source code published?	Yes
Emergency shutoff-compliant?	Yes

This user account is a bot that uses Python, operated by Ceradon (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 was previously approved but has since been retired, 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 malfunctioning or causing harm, 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.

Cerabot, a portmanteau of Ceradon—the bot's operator—and robot, is a multipurpose robot designed to edit Wikipedia doing various tasks. It speaks fluent Python and works at the speed of lightning! For now its purview includes dating maintenance tags (which is a very lucrative task, you know) but that will expand soon enough. Due to mine own indecision, Cerabot has suffered several name changes. (WP:CHUU link here)

Tasks

Tasks approved by the Bot Masters

Task #	Details	Date	BAG member	Status
1	(approval here) Search for articles on other-language wikis and place the articles in the form of interwiki links on the articles on the English Wikipedia. For this the bot used prepackaged Pywikibot code.	approved 1/23/2012	Kingpin13	Inactive
2	(approval here) Fix and maintain double redirects. For this the bot used prepackaged Pywikibot code.	approved 1/28/2012	Kingpin13	Inactive
3	(approval here) Date maintenance tags on articles. The bot searches Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month for articles that need to be dated. It trawls through the actual text of pages using an insanely powerful Python wikicode parser made by The Earwig. There are several ways Cerabot knows to date templates: If the template has no `\|date=` parameter at all, of course. In this case it just adds the current date in MY form. If the template has a date in it's parameters but the parameter name is `\|1=`. If a parameter `\|date=` exists, but the value of the date parameter is empty. If the date in the `\|date=` parameter is in an incorrect format (i.e. MDY, DMY, YMD, YDM, etc). It will change these automatically to the correct "MY" form needed.	approved 3/3/2013	Addshore	Active
4	(request here) Notifying article creators/expanders that their article has been nominated for Did you know? to be featured on the Main Page. Expander isn't actually a overly-broad term here; it is anyone who has contributed 10 edits or more to any particular article. Once the creator/expanders has been notified, a {{BotComment}} is left on the DYK nomination page indicating this.	Withdrawn	Withdrawn	Inactive