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Bot flag and watchlist flooding
Some of the tasks performed by the bot on Commons use QuickStatements tool in asynchronous "batch" mode, which does not set the "bot" flag properly and show up in peoples watchlists.
See phabricator:T247433. You should be able to hide edits by JarektBot by adding the JavaScript below to your common.js
$(document).ready($('.mw-special-Watchlist .mw-changeslist-line .mw-userlink[href="/https/commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JarektBot"]').parent().parent().css("display", "none"));


Basic Info:

  • Bot is running scripts using both AutoWikiBrowser, pywikipediabot or using QuickStatements tool
  • It operates intermittently in batches of files, with each batch initiated manually
  • Bot does not have a specific set of tasks but rather helps with variety of tasks too tedious to perform manually.
  • In 2024, JarektBot mostly works on reducing number of template redirects. See quarry:query/79906 and phabricator:T343131
    • currently running pwb.py replace -transcludes:Location_dec -nocase -summary:"replace {{Location dec}} with {{Location}}" "{{Location dec|" "{{Location|"

Tasks from the past: