Forum:NB:Notice of pending shutdown of AJTD6

Hello. For a few years, I have used my bot,, to regularly perform several routine tasks on Wookieepedia. For some time now, I have been inactive as an editor, and I am largely starting to fall back from a superfan to a casual fan of Star Wars. I have thus lost interest in editing and maintaining Wookieepedia completely. As a result, I am finding the task of keeping the bot running to be tedious, made worse by the fact that the hardware that it runs on has become unreliable and is annoying and frustrating to maintain. Therefore, I have made the decision that AJTD6 will soon be shut down. AJTD6 currently performs the following three tasks:


 * 1) Regular archiving of inactive SH, KB, and NB forum threads. Before I got this running, the SH and KB would pile up with months and months of old threads until some admin (sometimes me) finally sacrificed a few hours of their time to knock out the backlog. AJTD6, on the other hand, maintains this in a few seconds per day.
 * 2) Special purging of articles in Category:Verify, to ensure that these articles are moved into the CSD category when their time expires. This is necessary due to a bug in the core MediaWiki software, and performing this task manually requires a null edit to each article; a simple ?action=purge is not sufficient, and the job queue will not handle it. A bot, on the other hand, can take advantage of a special parameter to action=purge available only in the API to easily and quickly handle all articles in batches.
 * 3) Cleaning the Jundland Wastes sandbox. This is the easiest task to handle manually, but a bot can do it faster, more frequently, and without getting bored.

In hopes of finding another bot operator to take this over, I will make an effort to keep AJTD6 operational for two more months, although as I previously said, the hardware it is running on is becoming unreliable, so I cannot guarantee it won't miss a couple days every now and then. The code for the bot is open source at ; it is written in Python 3 using the simplemediawiki framework (make sure to include the ). You are welcome to take my code and run it as is, modify it slightly, or rewrite it completely. If a current bot operator wishes to take this over, please let me know here or on my user talk page. In any case, AJTD6 will be fully shut down either when another operator confirms they have all three tasks running smoothly, or failing that, on or about Saturday, May 6.

Thanks,

  MasterJonathan @ wookieepedia.com  :~ $   08:30, March 6, 2017 (UTC)

P.S. I have added the Sticky template to the this thread, to ensure that it remains visible while the shutdown is pending and that AJTD6 does not archive it prematurely. This tag can be removed after the shutdown is complete.   MasterJonathan @ wookieepedia.com  :~ $   08:30, March 6, 2017 (UTC)