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This bot is not yet approved to run. Please see the request for approval for further details and discussion.

General

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BirthdayBot is a Wikipedia bot run by Extranet that primarily uses perl to do a number of tedious tasks at a faster rate than a human editor. The bot checks the calendar of birthdays for the current day, and sends either a birthday template, a first edit day template, or adminship anniversary template to that user's userpage. It will most likely be run on the m:Toolserver.

Running

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The bot will be run temporarily by ST47 until Extranet gets a permanent toolserver account to run it.

Tasks

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  1. Checks the calendar of birthdays for the current day.
  2. Sends either a birthday template, a first edit day template, or adminship anniversary template to that user's userpage.

Emergencies

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If the bot seems to be malfunctioning, please block it. This will give both ST47 and Extranet time to diagnose/fix the problem.