This user account is a bot operated by Hersfold (talk). It is a legitimate alternate account, used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. 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.

Current status: Operating normally. The bot is currently running without any known errors. It will be run when needed. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:25, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Current Transwiki category size: 5 (this does not include the three Wikipedia: project pages which are permanently included)

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HersfoldBot (talk · contribs) Operator: Hersfold (t/a/c) Approved? Yes Flagged? No Task/s: Transwiki bot to Wiktionary Edit rate: Approx. 1 edit/10 seconds Edit period/s: When Hersfold is online Automatic or manual? Manual login, automated editing/importing Programming language/s: Java, with MER-C's Java library Other information: Version control and Source code

Wiktionary user page

Contents 1 Function 2 Future updates 2.1 Completed updates 3 Trial run pages

[edit] Function

HersfoldBot is a Transwiki bot between the English Wikipedia and the English Wiktionary. It uses the Special:Import API to transfer the entire attribution history of an article marked for Transwiki in Category:Copy to Wiktionary to Wiktionary's Transwiki: namespace, and logs the moves appropriately on both ends. Some articles will not be transferred automatically if they have an excessive number of revisions, or the current revision is over 5000 bytes in size. The latter size limit can be ignored once the article has been reviewed by a human editor.

[edit] Future updates

To suggest an update to the bot, please contact Hersfold. Suggestions for updates should relate to the bot's current task; if you would like a bot to perform a totally different task, please make your request at WP:BOTREQ.

1. N Not done: Set the bot so it handles Template: being present in the transwiki template. I think I've done this for OTRSBot, I just have to copy the code over when I can be arsed to do it.
2. N Not done: Set the bot so that duplicate transwiki templates on a long page do not cause multiple manual review templates to be added.

[edit] Completed updates

1. Wontfix: Removing disambiguation from titles ("Shaw (woodland)" → "shaw") The import API does not permit the bot to specify a target title that is different from the source. Stripping out the disambiguation causes the bot to import the wrong page. This can be dealt with on the destination wiki following editing.
2. Y Done: Have the bot ignore |date= parameters in the transwiki templates.
3. Y Done: Constructors need to be fixed to prevent two bots from running at once. Right now they're tripping over each other and causing problems.
4. Y Done: Have the bot strip out redlinks and nonexistent templates on the imported version of the article
5. Wontfix Adding functionality to import to other English-language projects. This doesn't seem to be worth it, as most other projects either don't import enough or are so substantially different from Wikipedia that the process needs to be done manually. If you're from another project and you feel this bot could be useful there, please let me know.

[edit] Trial run pages

When operating in trial mode, the bot will not edit live log pages, but instead subpages below. Logs generated by the bot during trial runs will also be copied in by the operator.

/Wikipedia:Transwiki log/Articles moved from here/en.wiktionary - /Trial run log

v • d • e Transwiki Log · Script Commons Template · Category Meta Template · Category · Export log · Import log (automatic) · Import log (manual) Wikibooks Template (Cookbook) · Category · Export log · Import log (automatic) · Import log (manual) · Request import Wikiquote Template · Category · Export log · Import log Wikisource Template · Category · Export log · Import log (automatic) · Import log (manual) Wiktionary Template · Category · Export log · Import log (automatic) · Import log (manual) Wikiversity Template · Category · Export log · Import log (automatic) · Request import