User:Mathbot
This bot is operated by Oleg Alexandrov. Please write any comments about this bot on his talk page. See the contributions by this bot.
Mathbot stands for mathematics articles tireless helper (and bot).
Mathematical work
List of mathematics articles
Mathbot goes every day through the
Mathbot is able to search for
The bot also makes a list of
Missing science topics
Mathbot maintains the mathematics lists at the missing science topics project. It uses various sources to add to the lists of mathematical topics missing from Wikipedia, and it removes the topics which got created. Mathbot is able to suggest potential redirects by comparing the names of missing topics with the names of existing topics. This is done using approximate string matching, and so far resulted in around 750 redirects being created.
Other mathematical
Mathbot suggests entries missing from lists of articles, see
Nonmathematical work
Mathbot displays the number of open deletion discussions for the pages listed at
Here are some tasks mathbot was doing in the past:
- Adding a link to mathbot's tool for people wishing to be administrators listed at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Mathbot's tool allows one to check his/her edit summary usage.
- Updating Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index, part of the Wikipedia 1.0 project. He delegated that job to a specialized bot, WP 1.0 bot.
- Providing updates during the 2007.
In recognition for his work, mathbot got
What makes mathbot tick?
Mathbot is a collection of scripts written in