JarektBot

This user account is a pywiki-based bot operated by Jarekt (talk). It is flagged as a bot. 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.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

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Emergency bot shutoff button

Administrators: Use this button if the bot is malfunctioning.
Non-administrators can report misbehaving bots to Commons:Administrators' noticeboard.

Stopping the bot
If the bot is misbehaving, and the edit comment has "using AWB" ending, anybody can stop the bot by leaving any message on User_talk:JarektBot.

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="/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:

AWB Source code samples, regexp
Some of the tasks performed using pywikipediabot:

Creator template maintenance.py
Institution template maintenance
Adding Interwiki links using modified interwiki.py
Cleans Category:Non-empty category redirects using modified Pywikipediabot/commons category redirect.py
Maintenance of Category:People by name with Commons People categories.py
For files with Creator template, change {{PD-old}} licenses to more specific {{PD-old-auto}} license with Replace_PD-old.py