Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/TemplateSubster.pm
Function overview: subst templates in Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:BOTREQ#Substing the uw-templates
Edit period(s): continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Depends on how many templates need substing
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: I know there have been a number of bots in the past that have substed some specific templates, and it may well be the case that these bots eventually go away. Just now we have a request for bot-substing of the user warning templates. The thing to do, in my opinion, is to create a category for all templates that should be bot-substed so a bot can process them all without having to get approval for each different bot processing each different template.
Detail on just how the bot will work is at User:AnomieBOT/docs/TemplateSubster, which will also be linked from the edit summaries.
Sounds good. Is the bot ready for a trial? - EdoDodo talk 15:20, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]