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Profile managers: EditBot WikiTree [send private message] and Aleš Trtnik [send private message]

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List of bot actions

Permanent actions:

• Deletion, renaming and merging of categories. For now it runs manually on a daily basis. More about this on Category:EditBOT.
• Template redirects. For now it runs manually on a daily basis after import of templates dump. If one of the redirected template is used, profile is corrected to directly use the correct template. That makes template maintenance easier.
• Categories corrections. For now it runs manually on a daily basis after import of categories dump. This reduces the creation of new duplicated categories.
  • Wanted categories are checked if there exists a category with same name and different case. If it does, all profiles, subcategories and links to it are corrected to use existing category.
  • Wanted categories are checked if there exists a category with same name but different separators placing. If it does, all profiles, subcategories and links to it are corrected to use existing category.
  • Wanted categories are checked if the category was already renamed by the bot. If it was, all profiles, subcategories and links to it are corrected to use renamed category.

Ongoing one time actions:

• Deletion of empty misnamed categories
• Correction of UTF errors in biography, that prevented display of biography on the profile. (6000 profiles, half corrected, others will be next week)

Finished one time actions:

• Template usage corrections.
  • Various minor template renames as part of template maintenance.
  • Project Box (One Name Study) -> One Name Study (Corrected 2756 instances 34 left) 18-23 Aug 2017
  • Project Box (One Place Study) -> One Place Study (Corrected 2100 instances 2 left) 20-23 Aug 2017
  • Project Box (Roll of Honor) -> Roll of Honor (Corrected 1626 instances 219 left) 12-17 Aug 2017
  • One Name Studies -> One Name Study (Corrected all 1156 instances and Template deleted) 4-11 Aug 2017
  • NSDAR Patriot Ancestor -> 1776 (Corrected all 662 instances and Template deleted) 2nd July 2017
• Organisation of misnamed categories. 18000 categories were deleted and links to them corrected.