357:", he doesn't intend to create a link to the disambiguation page for "Jeff Jorgenson", but to the article "]". There were approximately 560,000 of these ambiguous links when the bot started this task in 2012 – down from nearly one million in mid-2010, thanks to the efforts of disambiguators. (As of mid-2019, we have cut the above backlog by more than 99%!) To help us fix these links, we have programs that generate lists of all of the links to disambig pages. These programs cannot tell if the author intended to point to a particular article, or to the disambig page, so if the sentence is "
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The manually assisted functions are run whenever it is convenient for me. The disambiguation maintenance script runs once per week, usually early Sunday morning (U.S. time). The category redirect script runs daily, in the early morning (U.S.) hours. Tasks (6), (7), and (8) currently are running
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