Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic
Programming Language(s): Perl
Function Overview: Modifies all existing checkuser/sockpuppet related templates to one single template: ((sockpuppet)) with correctly named parameters.
Edit period(s): one time, may have to run periodically depending on use of depreciated templates.
Already has a bot flag (Y/N): yes Function Details: See latest discussion. Essentially every template used to tag socks will get renamed to one template with correct parameters. The older templates don't use named parameters so they are difficult to modify. This is needed to get the templates working correctly with WP:SPI etc. No visible changes will be seen and impact on users will be minimal. They can either use the one template for everything or if they use the deprecated ones, we can have the bot move them over every few weeks depending on usage level. Additional for WP:SPI cases the bot will be automatically tagging blocked socks in the future using the new template. —— nixeagleemail me 16:20, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Approved for trial. Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Okay, let's try it that way and see how it looks. – Quadell (talk) 14:01, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
How's it coming? – Quadell (talk) 20:19, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
((OperatorAssistanceNeeded|D))
Any update? We can keep holding it open. MBisanz talk 01:13, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
A user has requested the attention of the operator. Once the operator has seen this message and replied, please deactivate this tag. (user notified) Gentle nudge. – Quadell (talk) 22:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Request Expired. – This request has expired as information required of the operator was not provided. This request may be re-opened at any time. — madman bum and angel 22:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]