Yearbot is a Wikipedia bot that assists with the updating of the "Births" and "Deaths" sections of year articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Years) in the English Wikipedia. It uses the Python Wikipedia Robot Framework.
Yearbot is currently in development. It is operated from time to time by User:Gdrbot.
Run python yearbot.py year, then follow the instructions. The script presents you first with the people born in that year (in batches of 20), then with the people who died in that year. The people are presented like this:
1* [[January 1]] - [[Person A]], description (died [[year]]) 2- [[August 22]] - [[Person B]], description (died [[year]])
The asterisk in "1*" means that Person A will be included in the page; the minus in "2-" means that Person B will be excluded, because the text "c." was found next to the date of birth/death in their article.
At the prompt, you can view and edit entries by typing <number><command>, as follows:
These commands view or operate on the whole list:
When you've saved both the births and the deaths, you have a final chance to agree to the changes to the page, then it gets updated.