VeblenBot

This user account is a bot operated by CBM (talk) and Ruhrfisch (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 currently inactive but retains the approval of the community.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

This account is named in honor of Oswald Veblen.

For the time being, VeblenBot is editing from the mw:Wikimedia Labs server, so if it is blocked then autoblock must be disabled.

Tasks

As of January 2017, the bot has not edited since November 2016, and is likely inactive.

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(Active) Maintain lists of category contents (task request). Updated 10 minutes past the hour.
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Post warnings to Wikipedia talk:Peer review when the peer review page is close to exceeding the template limits (task request). Runs hourly. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:34, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Suggestions welcome

Please feel free to suggest improvements at User talk:CBM.

Code

VeblenBot's code is written in perl and published in svn on the toolserver. It can be browsed online starting at https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/cbm/.

To download the Mediawiki::API and Mediawiki::Edit modules, run

svn co https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/cbm/mediawiki-api/

To download the bot scripts, run

svn co https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/cbm/VeblenBot

or

svn co https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/cbm/VeblenBot/PROJECT

where PROJECT can be:

categories - make lists of category contents
math - assessment tables for the mathematics project
per - table of protected edit requests
policies - announcements of pages marked as policy

Please feel free to request any code that isn't included in the svn archive yet.