DASHBot

DASHBot
This user is a bot
(talk · contribs)
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Operator	User:Tim1357
Approved?	See a List of BRFAs
Flagged?	Yes
Task(s)	See Below
Programming language(s)	Python using pywikipedia mostly
Exclusion compliant?	No
Source code published?	Email me

Deactivated

This bot is no longer active on Wikipedia.

This bot ran on the Wikimedia Toolserver. Please turn off autoblocks if you block it.

This user account is a bot operated by Tim1357 (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. It is currently blocked, either due to a bot malfunction, or a violation of either its terms of approval or the bot policy.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

Hey there, I'm DASHBot. I did a variety of tasks until I was deactivated in 2013. If something is going wrong, please turn off the corresponding task below, and promptly leave a message on my owner's talk page. Thanks!

Tasks

Current

Task	Shutoff	Status	Last Run	Approval	Description	Log
WP:LINKROT-Bot	Here	Runs when Tim1357 has time	Running now (120k+ archives added thus far)	Approved	See here	No logs currently

Past

Task	Status	Last Run	Approval	Description	Log
UnRefed BLPs	Will run on request, but the Unreferenced BLP Backlog has been well dealt with	August 2010	Approved	Remind users who created unreferenced BLPs.	No log. I could rebuild one if someone asked for one
Article Rescue Squadron helper bot	De-Activated	June 2010	Not needed because it was done in User-Space	Update Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Current articles	All logs have been deleted.
DASHBotAV	Replaced by ClueBot NG	October 2010	Approved	Revert cases of blatant vandalism using heuristics	Here (3.4 MB) A list of ~12,000 reverts that the bot did. It includes details about the reverted edit, as well as the regexes that were used in evaluating the edit.
LINKROTBot	Too many bugs. H3llBot does a good job of the same task	September 2010	Approved	Find dead links in article citations and find archives in the Internet Archive from sometime close to the access date of the citation.	Again, I've deleted the logs. Message me if you need them, and I'll see what I can do.

In Development

User:DASHBot/InDevelopment

Some Statistics

293779 edits in total. (283317 not including deleted edits)
91936 pages patrolled.
34697 pages moved per WP:HYPHEN.
19741 images resized per NFCC#3b.
5397 images tagged as orphans.
5666 edits removing non-free images from the user-space.
60872 updates to /Wikiprojects that request lists of unreferenced biographies of living people.
326 pages tagged for deletion per WP:CSD#RD2.