AAlertBot

This user account is a bot operated by Hellknowz (talk). It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. tasks • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • global contribs • flag bot

What does this bot do?

This bot works on English Wikipedia to deliver Article alert report pages to subscribed projects and taskforces. Article alerts is a project that aims to deliver reports to internal topic-based projects about which pages enter and leave certain Wikipedia maintenance workflows, such as, deletion discussions, comment requests, featured content processes, etc.

What does this bot do on Commons?

On Commons, the bot currently does not do anything. The intention was to read and parse workflows that may be relevant to its report delivery, namely, the deletion processes concerning Commons' media that is used on English Wikipedia.

Who is operating the bot exactly?

Currently, Hellknowz (enWP) and Headbomb (enWP) can run the bot. The editor running the bot is marked in the edit summary as either (HK/13) or (HB/13), where the two-letter codes stand for Hellknowz and Headbomb. The latter number is the code revision.

See also

• Bot's page on English Wikipedia