BMacZeroBot

This user account is a bot operated by BMacZero (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.
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This is a C# bot for one-off maintenance tasks and batch uploads. It operates automatically at 6 edits per minute.

The bot's source code is stored on GitHub (MIT License). You are free to make use of it, but note that structuring it and cleaning it up for easy re-use is not one of my priorities.

Current Tasks edit

Commons:Batch uploading/NPGallery
Commons:Batch uploading/University of Washington Digital Collections
Commons:Batch uploading/The Digital South Asia Library
On hold. BRFA. Adding common categories like Category:Men by name to person home categories, and propagating them to Wikidata.
On hold. BRFA. Replacing implicit creators that can be verified via categories with Creator templates.
On hold. BRFA. Replacing PD-old-*-1923 and PD-old-*-1996 with PD-old-auto-* where the author's death year can be automatically determined.

Completed Tasks edit

Done. BRFA. Replaces text matching "|date=YYYY-MM-DD[\n]|" with "|date={{Taken on|YYYY-MM-DD}}[\n]|" in files in eight categories of User:Nyttend.
Done. BRFA. Commons:Batch uploading/Freshwater and Marine Image Bank: Uploads about 20,000 PD images from the University of Washington.
Done. BRFA: Filling infobox date field using image EXIF data in Category:Photographs by Jiří Bubeníček.

Cancelled Tasks edit

Not done. BRFA. Make Creator templates from Category:Creator templates to be created by a bot and perform other Creator home category maintenance.

Tasks Ideas edit

Populate taxonomy categories with the appropriate boilerplate if it's missing
Apply the Taken On template to photographs globally