User:HaleBot
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Helps with Wikipedia:Database reports. Source code is available, contributions welcome!
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About
Like its predecessor, this bot is named after an individual who bravely published information the world needed to know despite significant personal consequences.
HaleBot manages database reports that cannot be switched to using {{Database report}} because they are either too complex or take too long. If a report is switched to using that template, HaleBot will skip updating reports that have been migrated to use it.
Updates
Each report indicates how frequently it updates. The majority of reports usually update around the same time each day, week or month, but the exact hour is not fixed. Reports can be set to run at a specific time upon request, and will then explicitly say what time they update at (e.g. Empty categories says it updates at 1:00 UTC).
Logs
The last 30 days of HaleBot logs are publicly available, you'll want to look at the stderr files (stdout should be empty).