User:Mu301Bot

The Mechanical Turk - an automaton being controlled by a person.

This bot account [1] belongs to User:Mu301 and uses the Python Wikipediabot (pywikipediabot) Framework. See Manual:Pywikipediabot for instructions on how to obtain and install the source code.

There are plans to create a learning project on how to use bots with mediawiki. This bot might also be used in the future to generate examples for the creation of learning resources.

Automated tasks

• Category watcher:
  • /Requests for unblock - see Unblock request watcher
  • /Candidates_for_speedy_deletion
  • /Contested_candidates_for_deletion
  • /Requests for own page deletion
  • /Category:Astronomy
• Special:DoubleRedirects
• Weblinkchecker.py - looks for broken external links in Category:Astronomy pages. (not active as of Jan. 17, 2013)

Status

• This bot was offline from Oct. 14, 2012 until Jan. 17, 2013. It is now active again.
• The weblinkchecker has been turned off due to problems with some websites refusing to allow bots to automatically retrieve pages. [2] [3]

This user is a bot(block).