User:ROFLCOPTER/Purpose
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ROFLCOPTER is a bot created for Fan History. It is currently being run in order to help Fan History better understand what is going on in fandom by creating stub content that people can easily edit to explain what is happening in those communities.
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Purpose
What is the purpose of ROFLCOPTER?
- To create stub content to encourage people to edit.
- To help improve the representation of movie communities on Fan History.
- To help improve the representation of music communities on Fan History.
- To help improve the representation of fanzines on Fan History.
- To develop a history of fan responses to specific episodes of television.
Known issues
ROFLCOPTER has several known issues in creating articles.
- Will not create articles for movies with non-English characters in their title.
Privacy concerns
ROFLCOPTER uses movie titles that were pulled from a list of movies online.
ROFLCOPTER used fanzine information from a database that Laura had compiled.
ROFLCOPTER uses musical groups that were pulled from a database of musical groups.
ROFLCOPTER uses episode information that was pulled from a database of episodes.
Article creation
Articles created by ROFLCOPTER can be found in Category:Movie fandoms and Category:Music fandoms. Many articles can also be found in Category:Fanzines published by language and Category:Episode stubs.
Article updates
ROFLCOPTER was created to update once, when the page was created.
