The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Awarded to Mathbot for his tireless editing day and night, his invaluable contributions to WikiProjects and Wikipedia 1.0, and for his diligent avoidance of 3RR, trolling and flame wars. --kingboyk 12:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
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.
Mathbot displays the number of open deletion discussions for the pages listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old, it initiates the pages that will contain upcoming deletion discussions, and archives the pages on which all discussions have been closed.
Here are some tasks mathbot was doing in the past:
Mathbot is a collection of scripts written in Perl. It uses the Perlwikipedia package to communicate with Wikipedia (older codes use WWW::Mediawiki::Client instead). The source code for the scripts is available on GitHub.