User:SEWilcoBot

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{{bot|SEWilco|status=unapproved}}

  • June 19 2005: Account created, bot testing begun.
  • First task: Populating country template arrays for Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template.
  • Starting from United Nations list. Downloaded templates which point to flags. Built database of names, flags, and abbreviations.
  • Template array being initialized by bot which does nothing if a template exists, and uses usual putPage delays (currently configured to 61 seconds).
  • June 23 2005: Most UN countries initialized. Various sources combined. Initialized table for finding ISO codes when a country name is known. Filling in gaps. (SEWilco 04:18, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC))
  • June 24 2005: All ISO countries defined. All non-obsolete FIFA countries defined. List of FIFA country codes converted to {{tl|country}} format. Next will do conversion of existing ISO templates (ie, United Nations member states list) with 120-second put_throttle. (SEWilco 02:55, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC))
  • June 26 2005: ISO and many non-ISO countries updated. Converted Major League Baseball rosters to {{tl|flagicon}} format. (SEWilco 00:24, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC))
  • June 30 2005: Quiescent. (SEWilco 1 July 2005 03:03 (UTC))
  • July 3 2005: Testing references helper. (SEWilco 3 July 2005 23:20 (UTC))
  • July 7 2005: Manually used as helper to upgrade footnotes/References in various articles. Converting inline external links and others to Wikipedia:Footnote3 format. (SEWilco 7 July 2005 06:04 (UTC))
  • July 29 2005: Standardizing some stub categories. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Criteria#Country_category_standardization] (SEWilco 20:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC))
  • August 1 2005: Renaming obsolete Template:flag2 with creator's approval. (SEWilco 19:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC))
  • August 13 2005: Replacing misuse of {{tl|main}} below article top with {{tl|see details}}. (SEWilco 08:26, 13 August 2005 (UTC))
  • August 13 2005: Orphaning deleted {{tl|seemain}} (SEWilco 15:39, 13 August 2005 (UTC))
  • August 17 2005: Crosslinking a couple dozen Cat:Images of CITY,STATE categories. (SEWilco 05:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC))
  • August 23 2005: Reversing former misuse of {{tl|main}} back from {{tl|see_details}}. (SEWilco 00:54, 24 August 2005 (UTC))
  • August 25 2005: Orphaning deleted {{tl|seemain}}. (SEWilco 18:24, 25 August 2005 (UTC))
  • September 14 2005: Rebuilding improperly deleted categories for Washington, D.C.. (SEWilco 23:07, 14 September 2005 (UTC))
  • September 30 2005: Inserting CFRU notices for WP:CFD of cat:Images by country. (SEWilco 15:16, 30 September 2005 (UTC))
  • October 4 2005: Populating {{cl|U.S. state capitals}} with more city cats. (SEWilco 16:50, 4 October 2005 (UTC))
  • November 7 2005: Converting citation templates to consolidated versions. (SEWilco 19:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC))
  • December 28 2005: Moving {{tl|Infobox Country}} data out of country articles. (SEWilco 04:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC))

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