User:Uncle G's 'bot~enwikinews

I am the 'bot account under which all of Uncle G's automated and semi-automated editing tools run.

I am not currently flagged as a 'bot. Until some editing tools go into production use, all of my edits are intentionally subject to the usual scrutiny of edits made by pseudonymous users.

The tools are written in C++, cmd.exe script, and REXX. No, they are not currently available to others.

Editing tools in development
These are the tools currently in development. They are not in active production use. Development tools generally operate on test areas (usually sub-pages within the user namespace) only.

Editing tools in production use
These are the tools currently in production use. Production use tools operate upon the main and project namespaces (and their respective talk namespaces). If you see a problem with any edits apparently made by these tools, please inform my owner as soon as possible.

SANDBOT.btm
SANDBOT is a fully-automatic tool, scheduled to run at most once per day at approximately 00:05 UTC (give or take clock skew). SANDBOT does not re-try upon failure. Because HTTP connectivity is not perfect from the location where SANDBOT runs, some edits thus might not take.

SANDBOT performs the following tasks:
 * It resets Sandbox.
 * It resets Wikinews talk:Sandbox.

NEWPAGESBOT.btm
NEWPAGESBOT is a fully-automatic tool, scheduled to run at most once per day at approximately 00:05 UTC (give or take clock skew). NEWPAGESBOT does not re-try upon failure. Because HTTP connectivity is not perfect from the location where NEWPAGESBOT runs, some edits thus might not take.

NEWPAGESBOT performs the following tasks:
 * It replaces Template:New page with an updated version that uses the current date. It creates the page using &#123;&#123;subst:New page/default&#125;&#125; to create everything below the dateline, allowing the content below the dateline to be changed by editing Template:New page/default.
 * It creates a new day page, of the form Wikinews:Year/Month/Day containing a dynamic page list.