Automatic or Manually assisted: Automatic, unsupervised
Programming language(s): Perl
Source code available: User:AnomieBOT/source/tasks/TagDater.pm
Function overview: Date maintenance tags.
Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): WP:BOTREQ#Undated Articles
Edit period(s): Continuous
Estimated number of pages affected: Depends on how often people leave maintenance tags undated, and whether other bots beat AnomieBOT to it.
Exclusion compliant (Y/N): Yes
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): Yes
Function details: Date maintenance tags in articles listed in first-level subcategories of Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month.
|1=
or certain other parameters, move it to |date=
.|date=
. This will be done directly using the bot's local clock in UTC, not using ((subst:CURRENTMONTH)) ((subst:CURRENTYEAR)), to avoid the known problems with using the substs.|date=
exists, remove it or move it to |1=
if necessary.|1=
contains a recognizable date instead of having the date specified with year in 1, month in 2, and day in 3, correct it. Supply the current year if necessary.|1=
is found or |1=
is "today", "now", or certain other keywords, add the current date.User:SmackBot currently handles this task when it can manage to remain unblocked. User:Yobot has been doing it lately, but Magioladitis is uninterested in continuing it long-term. KarlsenBot 6 was denied as the operator was blocked by ArbCom. AnomieBOT will not be bypassing redirects or changing the capitalization of redirects, or applying any other AWB general fixes (since AnomieBOT does not use AWB). Anomie⚔ 00:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]