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Tools
I use Firefox and WP:AWB at the moment. I also use Perl to scan database downloads and to generate the XML for AWB. If requested I will prepare lists of articles for other users when I can. Where possible SmackBot will avoid pages with the {{nobots}} tag. I may one day also start using the python Wikipediabot.
Tasks
Current tasks
- Insert {{Start date}} and {{End date}} into instantiations of various templates. Approved here
- Replace Geobox XXX with Geobox
Recurrent tasks
- Note:due to an MS operating system failure task 3 is on hold.
- Correct "External link" to "External links".
- Correct "Reference" to "References".
- Correct "ISBN:" to "ISBN" to allow wikimagic to prevail.
- Other minor improvements to layout of ISBN to allow wikimagic to prevail.
- (Insert correct hyphenation of ISBNs, label articles with invalid ISBNs (too short, too long, lang code, pub code undefined)).
- Check check digit, categorise articles with invalid ISBNs.
- Convert to 13 digit code (standard from 2007) see ISBN (currently paused)
- Add a date to the maintenance tags which put articles in sub-categories or planned sub-categories of sorted by month - mainly:
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- and their synonyms and near-synonyms - something over 490 templates and 1900 redirects. (This should be exhaustive for those which are not merely planned -i.e all occurrences should be dated.)
- At the same time SB corrects mis-spellings, mis-entry and mis-formatting of the date parameter and other template features where it can.
- Replace tags {{disambig}} and {{cleanup}} with {{disambig-cleanup}}.
- Replace birth dates and death dates in Infoboxen with {{birth date}}, {{death date}}, {{birth date and age}} or {{death date and age}} as appropriate.
- Add defaultsort to people-stubs so they are listed correctly
- Add references section and appropriate mark of to articles with "ref" footnotes and no such mark up.
- Unlink days of week and month names.
- Remove ":" from redirects.
- Replace start dates and end dates in Infoboxen with {{Start date}} etc as appropriate.
Task queue
- Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - work on common errors.
- Most common 245 done once. - will probably become a recurring task
- Many now built into AWB as part of "General fixes".
Completed tasks
- U.S. 2000 census articles into past tense.
- Initial runs of recurrent tasks
- Moved Saint Louis categories to St. Louis, and corrected links.
- Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - Most common 15 done.
- Remove unnecessary capitals from section headers - second most common batch c. 230.
- UK links direct to United Kingdom. Nazi to Nazism.
- Pipe US to United States replace with U.S.
- Replace/pipe link Academy Award with Academy Awards
- In days of the year replace first occurrence of date with templated link, completed manually.
- More Fix-ups in US Census articles.
- Remove spurious links to months of year and days of week.
- Labelled all bad checksum ISBNs.
- Renamed "invalid isbn" template "please check ISBN".
- Modified Swiss geog. articles census field to avoid deprecated "as of month year" links.
- Tidied up album articles (note there is a manual phase which is still going on).
Known bugs
- See also Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs
- There is a bug with the dating of "cleanup-remainder".
Abandoned tasks
- Fix section headers and templates in Pokémon articles.
- Not started. Probably been done by someone else by now.
- Clean up piped links
- Stopped probably permanently. Might roll into other tasks.
- Now built into AutoWikiBrowser as part of "General fixes"
Approval status for various tasks
- Note, when Smackbot is using AWB, some of the general fixes options will usually be turned on, to get the most value from the edits. Hence most edit summaries say "and/or general fixes". Again usually, the motivating change will be made or none at all.
Name
Has nothing to do with drugs, or fishing smacks. Think of it as the smack at the end of a Swedish massage, or the smack of a Homer like pate when saying Doh! Whatever makes you comfortable... The name was never intended as a reprimand, although some users have taken it as such, just a passing pun.
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Awards
- Some also at User:Rich Farmbrough/Barnstars
Thank you, SmackBot, for always cleaning up my messes. Drink up, buddy! --
wpktsfs 14:34, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 | | The Invisible Barnstar |
| Great job with maintaining the tags well! Marlith T/C 17:01, 16 September 2007 (UTC) |
 | | The Working Bot's Barnstar |
| Keep up the good work! ☺ Spiby ☻ 13:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC) |
 | | The Cleanup Barnstar |
| Seems like every time I edit an article you are right there not only fixing my mistakes but previous edits too. ZabMilenko 14:45, 21 May 2009 (UTC) |
 | | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Thanks for all of your help, SmackBot! I rarely don't see you on an article's history page, always fixing mistakes and doing other laborious and repetitive tasks. Airplaneman talk 21:05, 14 September 2009 (UTC) |
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