Anomie is still around, mostly to maintain AnomieBOT. But after the WMF proved that office politics are more important to them than seemingly anything else, and otherwise generally seem more concerned with their own image than substance, Anomie is not engaging in technical work on MediaWiki.
Despite T360488 asking them not to, Toolforge admins have gone ahead and broken AnomieBOT's scripts. Keeping things running properly will likely require manual intervention until they fix that or give me a usable workaround.
This user account is a botoperated by Anomie (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. The bot is approved and currently active. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.
Live status for all AnomieBOT tasks is available at Toolforge.
Before blocking this bot, please consider disabling the task in question instead (see #Emergency shutoff). If you want to block it anyway, the button to the left will do what you want.
AnomieBOT is written in Perl, using a custom API class to access the MediaWiki Action API. It uses SQLite or MySQL for persistent data storage.
In addition to the standard "bot" mode which will only run approved tasks, individual tasks may also be run in a "test" mode that logs proposed edits to the local filesystem instead of actually editing Wikipedia or in an "RFBA trial" mode that will automatically stop after a certain number of edits.
Individual tasks may be stopped by writing any non-whitespace content to various pages under User:Liztalk/shutoff/; see the task list below for the specific page corresponding to each task. Many tasks also link the appropriate page from their edit summaries.
Latest comment: 6 years ago25 comments25 people in discussion
The Citation Barnstar
As I was busy with some very cumbersome (read: 200kB) merges and forks, thesetwo orphaned reference fixes came after my edits, and I was quite impressed. This is an incredibly useful and robust bot. —Akrabbimtalk15:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
The da Vinci Barnstar is awarded to editors who have "enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work". For writing a new version of User:MediationBot so promptly and without error, and for continuing to provide your excellent bots to the English Wikipedia, I award Anomie and all the User:AnomieBOTs the da Vinci Barnstar. Thank you! For the Mediation Committee, AGK [•] 14:44, 14 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for always doing such a great job finding orphans, undated citation needed templates, etc. I try to catch them at the time, and yet still find you catch some. I'll try harder! Great job at maintaining a quality impression for the readers. CaroleHenson (talk) 18:27, 27 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
I am sending you some RAM as wikilove because food and drink would have been pointless for you and you most probably can't look after kitten so I am making my own to send you. Thank you for fixing citation link on Anil Kumble. I was a minute late. Vyom25 (talk) 14:22, 7 June 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hello AnomieBOT, MSGJ has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This bot does so much work that so many readers and editors ignore. I read in a BBC article that "Wikipedia would be in shambles without bots", and I must say, AnomieBOT is one of the main pillars that hold Wikipedia up, along with ClueBot NG and hundreds of other bots. Keep editing, my good robot friend, or this barnstar will stop rotating. K6ka (talk | contribs) 16:02, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi! I was going to give AnomieBOT a cookie for fixing the broken ref on SSRI discontinuation syndrome - I would never have known as I just went straight for a single section, but I'm not sure he actually eats cookies. So I decided to give him a glass of motor oil instead; I hope he likes it! (And, for those who think I should have been a bit more environmentally sound, giving a bot a glass of oil is akin to give a human a cookie in terms of healthiness, no? :-) WnC? 15:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)Qwertyxp2000 likes thisReply
A hard working bot deserves a refreshing glass of motor oil!
Been on a bit of an extended sabbatical, and forgot to date a whole bunch of maintenance tags. Thanks for the tidy up, AnomieBOT. xx --Haruth (talk) 16:19, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Have a lick
I am sending Holly, my youngest spaniel girl, to give you a lick on the face - thanks for cleaning up after me Xyzspaniel (talk) 2300, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Penguinmlle has given you transistors! Transistors promote WikiLove (📖💞) and hopefully this one has made your day more efficient. It is the food best preferred by bots. 🤖 Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else transistors, whether it be someone you have had robot wars with in the past or a good friend.
I see no one has supplied you with transistors yet, so here are a handful to cover the booboos I did by forgetting dates.
Spread the goodness of transistors by adding {{subst:Transistors for you}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!
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