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InsideoutBot will be a VB6 bot that replaces external links to Wikipedia pages with internal links
In this example the bot would replace Main Page with Main Page in an article. The bot can, if so desired, do more interesting things, such as checking to see if the link it is repairing leads to a disambiguation page and tag the article to be cleaned up for that reason.
This bot will, when constructed, run continually and is expected to make around 72 edits per day, around 1 edit every 15 minutes, though this does depend on how many edits it has to fix.