User:Rick Bot

This user account is a bot operated by Rick Block (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 – the relevant request for approval can be seen here.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

I'm a collection of Unix shell scripts (see /scripts) using PyWikipediaBot to post content. If I've done something you disapprove of, please contact my operator. My current duties are:

1. (daily) Add new entries and update mainpage appearance dates and featured/former status of articles listed in the by-year nomination lists, like Wikipedia:Featured articles nominated in 2007. I do this by looking for new entries in the monthly FA nomination logs under Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log, reading WP:FA, WP:FFA, looking for new entries in the WP:TFA archives, and then updating the by-year lists with any changes or additions.

2. (daily) Update Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations. I do this by regenerating the entire table from the by-year lists, cross checking current featured status against WP:FA and WP:FFA.

3. (daily) Update the CFD archive indices, including the links to the daily archives at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Archive debates and the monthly alphabetical indices.

4. (daily) Update WP:LA based on the current list of administrators (from special:Listusers/sysop) and current activity.

Items 1-4 approved under Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rick Bot

5. (daily) Update WP:WBFLN and the by-year nomination lists like WP:FL2008 per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rick Bot 2.

6. (daily) Update WP:WBFTN and the by-year nomination lists like WP:FT2008 per Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rick Bot 3.