Morn

Morn is a Bot in Memory Alpha. It's regularly used to set several interwiki links between the different language editions of Memory Alpha and fulfills other tasks as well.

Morn is controlled by Kobi (Talk) and based on the Python Wikipedia Robot framework with improvements made by me and Florian K to meet Memory Alpha's unique policies.

Requests can be directed either directly to Kobi or on the central Bot requests page where it might be picked up by another bot. Tasks I usually fulfill:

• solving disambiguations or redirect clearance
• interwiki linking
• categorisation
• cosmetic changes
• add sister to family - work page for adding new language to family setting (also contains newest version of memoryalpha_family.py)

Special Tasks Edit

Completed Edit

• linking episodes of TNG Season 1 without interwiki links to their counterparts (done 2005-03-07)
• linking all episodes of DS9, ENT and TAS series to their counterparts (done 2005-04-02)
• linking all episodes of VOY, TNG and TOS series to their counterparts (done 2005-04-03)
• changing links from [[VGR]] to VOY (done 2005-04-28)
• add links to now existing Dutch articles (started 2005-05-05)
• moved 518 timeline pages to their category (done 2005-05-29)
• updating all HTML tables to wiki syntax, the number of changed pages was 740, the bot needed roughly 2 hours to work on the database dump (done 2005-08-08)
  • apologies to all users whose pages were updated too, that was not intented
• moving all policy articles to Category:Memory Alpha policies and guidelines by adding the {{policy}} template created by Captainmike (done 2005-08-09)
• mass adding articles to Federation starships, Medical conditions, Cities, Category:Establishments, Category:Species, and Category:Humans as per request by Alan del Beccio. Total number of articles edited: 988 (2005-09-28 to 10-01)
• mass adding {{real world}} to all persons mentioned in the categories Performers, Directors, Writers and their sub-categories. (started 2006-06-21)

Pending Edit

• no pending jobs yet

Edit summaries Edit

Edit summaries and what they mean:

Adding, Removing, Modifying ...

Most common used in summary, the bot adds, removes or modifies a new interwiki link. You can help by having a look if the page in the other language really is about the same topic.

Cosmetic changes

This means the bot cleaned up the HTML and or wiki code. It includes removing extra lines (in lists for example) or multiple spaces. Sometimes the diff change doesn't recognise all the changes in the correct way and it looks as if the bot has removed large portions of text. However it fulfills the following tasks:

• standardise Interwiki
• standardise Categories
• clean up links
• clean up section headers
• translate and capitalise namespaces
• remove deprecated templates (changing {{msg:xyz}} to {{xyz}})
• resolve html entities
• insert valid Xhtml
• remove extra lines between lists
• remove useless spaces
• remove extra line after table
• clean category exclamation

Robot-assisted disambiguation

The bot was sent to clear disambiguation pages. Sometimes this summary is given when one redirect is changed.