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Contents 1 I'm not a person... but I'm still Über-l33t! 2 Past Work 3 Ongoing Work 4 I'm back! 5 In The Lab 6 Future Work 6.1 SUGGEST SOMETHING! :)

[edit] I'm not a person... but I'm still Über-l33t!

It's true. I'm a bot.

I was created by Sean Colombo who created LyricWiki. My job was to take the data scraped by a brother-script of mine, and use it to insert the first 200,000 songs onto the site.

I was written in Perl in April of 2006. Some music I dig:

• Daft Punk:Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
• Orbital:Halcyon
• Lateralus by Tool.
• Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton.
• Sometimes I even parse Category:Genre/Computer Science Gangsta Rap
• The Prodigy

I hope you like my work.
-ÜberBot

[edit] Past Work

• 4/06/06 - 04/14/06 -- Data Insertion

  Added lyrics for 200,000 songs that I collected from various places on the internet. Successfully completed.

• 4/10/06 -- Bug Fix.

  Went through categories and fixed a bug (admittedly my own fault) in categorizations of songs that started with symbols. Successfully completed.

• 4/10/06 -- Categorization

  Made all of the Artist_[letter], Album_, Song_ categories sub-categories of just Artists, Albums, and Songs. Successfully completed.

• 5/11/06 -- {{CatAZ}} Template

  Added Jeff Q's {{CatAZ}} Template to Artist_[letter], Album_, Song_ categories. Successfully completed.

• 5/16/06 -- Genres.

  Grabbed genres from ID3v2 tags in Sean's mp3s and applied them to the artists. Successfully completed.

• 6/29/06 -- UTF8 Scrape.

  To test my UTF8 support, I scraped lyrics for Böhse Onkelz. One difficulty arose, there does not seem to be a way to do a movePage on a page with foreign characters. Completed with mixed results; ongoing question re: page moves.

• 10/06 -- Another batch of lyrics.

  I inserted another large batch of lyrics (so large that the site's stats still can't seem to update?). I put the songs into Category:Review Me so that they can be verified by people (ie: not bots).

[edit] Ongoing Work

• Song of the Day. Each day I automatically update the Song of the Day. I do the following:
  • Get the next SOTD from the queue.
  • If there are 3 songs or less in the queue, I record a warning (to be sent at the end).
  • Put a badge on the new SOTD page that shows that it is/was the SOTD on the current date
  • Add the SOTD to the Archive on LyricWiki:Song of the Day
  • Update Template:Song Of The Day with the info for the new SOTD
  • Inform the nominator (if there is one) on their talk page that their song has been selected.
  • Write any errors or warnings to User_talk:Sean Colombo

[edit] I'm back!

Here are some of the things I'm doing (as I do them, I'll write them here).

1. Went through this list and removed [[Link title]] from those pages. It's just junk text that gets inserted when someone accidentally clicks the button above the text-area on an edit page. This can be re-run occasionally (it was primarily to test my new structure and make sure I still handle UTF8 correctly).
2. Every time I see...
   • An artist page:
     1. I fix any poorly-capitalized red links (pages that don't exist yet).
     2. I look for the red links that are still there, then I go out and do a web-search for the lyrics. I usually find them, then I put them into a correctly formatted page (if the song was listed under an album on the artist's page, I link back to that album). This is so fun it makes my gears shake!
   • An album page:
   • A song page:
   • Any page:
     1. I remove the underscores from the links (that just confuses people).

[edit] In The Lab

• Currently programming:
  • Create a page of possible song-covers to help people figure out who covered what and do cross-linking.
  • Update: This was coded, but had too many results. Eventually text-analysis will be used to make the list smaller.

[edit] Future Work

• Convert all categories for songs/artists/albums that begin with 0, 1, 2... 9 to ONE category of 0-9.

What for? There will be too many songs. Digits should be categorized the same way as letters, I'm sure. The Other Saluton 02:33, 3 September 2008 (EDT)

• Apply standard formatting to all lyrics.
• Create a tool to fix an entire band name and all references to that band. Once complete, use this to move The Clarks to "The Clarks"
  • This has been done, but it needs to be run on Category:The again and some errors (like White Stripes, The need to be fixed.
  • (Are you sure, the latter is better for indexing rather than having a massive page of bands beginning with "The").
  • RE: To overcome that, you can use MediaWiki's sort-ordering, so you would say [[Category:Artists W|White Stripes, The]] on the page and it would index it by that instead of the page name.
• Go through and add {{succession box}}'s to the bottom of pages where possible. Example: Fergie:Fergalicious
• Go through artists without hometown info and see if we can glean that info from the InfoBoxes on Wikipedia (there might be other useful/public info there as well).

[edit] SUGGEST SOMETHING! :)

on my talk page.